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Meet the
Columnist
Columnist, Sheila
Moss, is a free-lance writer from Tennessee. She writes
funny stuff about southern life, women's issues, family
matters and anything else that she finds amusing.
She is
seen weekly in the Daily News of Kingsport and Hill
Country Times and
appears in a monthly humor publication called Foolish
Times. She has written for Atlanta Woman Magazine, Aberdeen Examiner,
Angleton
Advocate, and Smyrna AM, a supplement of the Murfreesboro Daily News
Journal. She has been
published by Voyageur Press, McGraw Hill, and the good folks
at Guidepost Books have recently published a number of her
articles in their Let There Be Laughter series of
books. Her articles have appeared in
numerous other publications, both print and online.
She is a board member and the Web
Editor of Columnists.com, website of the National Society of Newspaper
Columnists, the
oldest and largest professional organization
for news columnists. She is also the Web Editor of
SouthernHumorists.com as well as this website, HumorColumnist.com.
To carry her self- syndicated weekly column in your
newspaper, or
to republish an
article, please contact her. It's that easy.
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One Day at a Time with
AT&T
Step 1 - Admit you are powerless over your Cable company.
What used to be a mere pittance for broadband computer connection
has continued to rise until it has become a money -sucking
monster.
Step 2 - Come to believe that a power greater than Comcast
can restore you to your sanity.
Step 3 - Make a decision to turn your life and your
computer over to the care of AT&T, as you understand the phone
company.
Step 4 - Make a searching and fearless inventory of your
home and count all the computers, including laptops, disregarding
old computers and computer parts in the attic.
Step 5 - Admit to AT&T, yourself, and Comcast that you
are stupid for paying more money for Cable just to keep your free
virus protection, an unused home page, and eight email addresses,
seven of which you’ve never used.
Step 6 - Be entirely ready to have AT&T remove your
cable connection.
Step 7 - Humbly ask the phone company to reconnect you with
DSL.
Step 8 - Make a list of all the email contacts you will
have to notify and be willing to forget about half of them.
Step 9 - Make a direct wired connection to your computer
whenever possible, except when to do so involves a remote computer
or laptop -- for those you need to go wireless.
Step 10 - Continue to take inventory of computers and
printers and to work endless hours with AT&T support people to
get your computer up and running.
Step 11 - Seek through power and meditation to forget your
aggravation with AT&T – as you understood them – praying
for an understanding of why you cannot connect to the Internet,
regardless of what you do.
Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of
three endless days of being on the phone with support techs,
frayed nerves, no sleep, lost time, and nothing working right, try
to carry the message to others.
Step 13 - Crawl under the desk, find the old computer cable
and plug yourself in. Kiss your homepage. Check email, update your
website, and check out your favorite newsgroups. Sooner or later
your new ISP will get their act together. Until then, remember...
Relapse is a part of recovery.
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Copyright 2008 Sheila Moss
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Sheila Moss
PO Box 198019
Nashville, TN 37219
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