When There's No TV...

Last week Wednesday, something weird happened with HECO (Hawaiian Electric Company) in the late afternoon. I was working on my computer and it just died. I rebooted the system and once again it died. It took me several tries before I realized that something was goofy with the electricity and I probably should turn off my computer before something really bad happened even though we have a surge protector on it.

Everything stabilized after a couple of hours of the lights flickering on and off, etc. But then, the TV wouldn't turn on. There was a big red X on the screen. We watch the evening news while we have our dinner, but with no TV, ended up just talking to each other. 

We usually watch TV after dinner, but with no TV we read a book and went to sleep early. I actually got a good nights sleep. 

The following day, Art called Hawaiian Telcom and they scheduled a technician to come out on Friday.  Sooo... we had another evening of no TV news and more talking and reading and going to bed early. 

On Friday, Dean of Hawaiian Telcom arrived.

He was the absolute friendliest, cutest guy.

He did all kinds of tests (while explaining everything) on the machines and taught us how to press the middle and bottom button simultaneously while pulling out the power cord. And putting in the power cord again while holding those two buttons.

I think that's what he said. Art would know.

Anyway, he said our modem had just gotten old and died.

But yes, he said that HECO's electrical problem probably was the final straw that caused our old modem to give up its last breath.

Dean then checked all our TVs to make sure they were now working and he was cheerfully on his way before telling us where their office was.

I told him Spectrum was often in the neighborhood trying to entice customers away. I told Dean, he's just made us happy to stay with Hawaiian Telcom. 😄