And Then You Shake It All About
Joelle said in the early morning on November 9, 2007
Well, yesterday was a hoot. Thanks for sharing all your cool scar stories… unfortunately, I didn’t get to read most of them until this morning because yesterday after I posted my Internet started going all Sybil on me. It would go on… then go off… come back on… then right as I ready to do something… go off. I did the usual troubleshooting of rebooting the router, the modem, both computers, I unplugged everything, re-plugged everything, dusted, sang a happy song to it, did a dance, bowed down and faced east and eventually had to take 10 deep breaths and curse quietly under them.
I was very irritated, to say the least. I have two projects (and a rare pro bono job that I need to get off my plate, but wanted to do my part) that I really need to wrap up so a girl can eat pay her cable bill, but did the Internet care? Hell no! It won’t go!
Stupid cable. Oh! And then when I finally got a hold of the cable company and they told me it was “undetermined” how long it would be, I figured, “OK, well, I can waste my day trying to get something done fruitlessly at the computer, totally play hooky and sit on my ass watching Oprah, or I can clean out my closet, which I’ve been trying to do for months. Tomorrow is another day. I will totally kick ass. I’m in good shape. I have Thursday and Friday to wrap things up...”
So… yeah. All day yesterday, well into the evening, I thought it was Wednesday and that I had two more days this week for work-related awesomeness. *sigh*
Let’s all take a deep breath, shall we? Today is a new day in which I will get the work of two days accomplished. Hahahahahahahahaha! Yeah.
Oh! I forgot last week, so I tried to remember for this week: it’s Fridge Friday on NaBloPoMo, so I’ll be back with a riveting entry about the contents of my fridge later. I’m sure you’re all waiting on the edge of your seat for that. Heh.
Coffee, anyone?
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from Santa Barbara, CA
Weird, my internet was acting up yesterday too. Only, it wouldn’t go entirely out--I could load up tiny file-size websites like Google but of course not anything work-related--no email, no FTP, no client sites, nothing. I had to go work in the library so I could get stuff done.
Of course, it started working perfectly as soon as I went to show my bf how it wasn’t working.
I live like 200 miles away from you, but I am still wondering if perhaps it is a consipracy with the internet companies trying to mess with poor girls who work from home…
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
@Icyshard: Mine would do that, too! I could sometimes reach Google, but not use any of my IM or email or access my project manager, where all my stuff is. Then it would just cut out entirely. Gah!
from Santa Barbara, CA
I could use IM, once I got signed on that is. It took me several tries to get connected, but once it did, I could IM people. Although, the IM client I use to talk to coworkers only showed a couple of the people, not all of them, which was odd.
It had cut out on me again this morning, and I was annoyed, because yesterday at the library there was a guy sitting at the table next to me eating various crunchy foods and watching the Matrix with no headphones on his laptop! I like the library for all-day computing though because it’s quieter than a coffee shop (well, MOST of the time!), you don’t feel obligated to keep buying things, and I think they have more comfortable chairs!
Mine started working again though, and I hope it lasts this time. Ugh. That really IS eerie that yours was doing the same thing at the same time though. Hope yours has gotten all sorted out!