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April 17, 2007
Saved by Starbucks
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A Verizon main cable to which my phone is attached is inoperative (probably because of the huge storm a few days ago), and I haven't been able to get online since Sunday afternoon. I am typing this from Starbucks. It's really annoying that there is one every 2 blocks (It seems that every store front in Manhattan is either a bank, a Starbucks, or a Duane-Reade), but when you consider their main functions as good citizens of Manhattan - not their lousy coffee, but their free toilets as well as cheap wifi - they are not so obnoxious.
The T-Mobile tech support people were polite. But it took them 30 min to figure out why I couldn't log on. And the signal at the Starbucks at 52nd and 8th Ave. was intermittant (a totally unrelated problem to my difficulty accessing the T-Mobile login screen). So I had to pick up and move 2 blocks down 8th Ave to another Starbucks. So in addition to getting no internet access at home, it took me an hour to get online once I ventured out.
Is Mercury in retrograde or something?
Judith | 04/17/07 at 03:43 PM | Categories: Tedious details
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The good news is that there is always a Starbucks near by in NYC.
Rob | April 17, 2007 05:01 PM
It is good to know that Starbucks is good for something. Their java is so-so. :)
Paul | April 18, 2007 08:28 AM
Paul,
Forgive me for this, but in Brazil we mocka their java! :-)
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| April 19, 2007 08:13 AM
Their java sucks. The coffee machine coffee in the lounge in my apt building is better than their coffee.
Judith | April 21, 2007 01:40 AM
