Technical Issues?

Technical issues is what we've been saying to our clients. On Monday the construction people hit a cable and our phone and internet went out. My sister Gris (our office manager) had to have all calls transfered to her cell phone and it really sucks cause all the calls we're getting are pissed off clients. No one wants to wait more than three days for an appraisal. The bad news came when Southwestern Bell called her and told her we would not have any type of service until Friday at 8 PM. So Robin and I lugged our dinosaurs home to connect them to our internet. Usually I remote to my work computer from home but I obviously can't do that if my work computer is offline. Well, my internet is through a satellite since I live in the middle of nowhere and ofcourse it's not as easy as plugging in a cable. I had to call my provider...after hours mind, you and get them to give me the correct ip's and all that stuff that I don't understand. I'm sure it's an expensive service call, but I had them bill my company, lol. Okay so since I have a wireless router I had to connect my work computer to the router which is in my laundry room since I wanted all the ugly wires out of sight. Well, now my office is in my little laundry room. The signal is not that great so what takes me an hour at the office takes me about four hours here and I'm thinking it's time to save and invest in a lap top. My boss from Dallas was like why don't you guys just go sit at starbucks? Right, they all work off of labtops. Then we get a call saying that one of our bosses from Dallas is flying in tomorrow. Many of or other offices have become satellite offices and I have a feeling that Verappraise Harlingen will too. This just means that we will work from home PERMANENTLY. In a way I think it's good, but then I don't really work well from home. I guess we'll see what tomorrow brings and for now I just want to literally kick my computer's ASS!