So glad I've gotten rid of Windstream

My wife and I had finally had enough of our current telephone and internet provider, Windstream.  A year or two ago, they bought out our local provider.  Up to that point, I actually enjoyed the few talks I had with customer service and always felt that I was treated well by the company.  Windstream bought them out and almost immediately, we started have connection issues with the internet.  Then our phone lines started getting extremely fuzzy.  It got so bad, that we could hardly hear the people we were talking to.  Windstream said they detected no problems with the lines, so it must be inside the house.  It also got to the point that we had to restart the modem at least 3 times a day to get internet access and often even that wouldn't help.  Windstream told me that our connection was fine.

We switched to the cable company for everything.  In order to do the switch, I needed a passcode to port my number.  I called Windstream and got a code.  A day later the cable company said the code was rejected.  I called back and got a completely different number, which this time worked.  I planned on shutting off the Windstream service a few days after the switch so I could get all of my email contacts switched to a new address when all of a sudden, I couldn't access my email anymore.  I couldn't even get to a login screen.  I called today to cancel Windstream and they had already cancelled when the phone number got ported.  I asked why that would cut off my email and got some BS answer.  Luckily I didn't use their webmail and have all of my old emails, otherwise, it would all be lost.

It's sad that a good, well-liked, local company that did it's job well was bought out by what clearly seems to be a large corporation that acts like a child when it doesn't like what you do.  Good riddance to Windstream and I haven't had to restart a modem all week!

I'm raising my daughter right

The girl has been going through a lot of maturation this past year.  Kindergarten has pushed her levels of independence to previously unknown levels.  She's taking showers and cleaning herself with minimal assistance.  And, she even has taken to choosing her own clothes, with her own style.  None of that is something I can take credit for.  However, I think I have had some influence on her current push for an identity.  She's been stating, ofter vociferously, that she loves rock-n-roll.  She treats us daily to her dance interpretations of whatever music is playing.  She's a big fan of Gogol Bordello.  She's been going through my CD collection asking to hear different things.  Last night was a watershed moment.  For a while now, she's been saying how much she likes drums and guitars.  Everything I put on, she said she wanted more drums and guitars and could I please turn it up.  A light bulb went off, I put on a particular CD, and she actually started headbanging.  It was Metallica, Master of Puppets.

I figured out that my 5-year-old daughter's particular taste in music may be metal.

The coolest thing is that she likes so many different things.  I was worried for a while because she was gravitating to things like Lady Gaga and K$sha (some tracks of which are cunningly catchy), but I kept hope because she liked Gogol Bordello so much more.  But after her repeated requests for more drums and more guitar, I can see that her musical tastes will be fine.

Rock on.