Stuck in Indiana With No WiFi
Nov. 13th, 2007 03:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseOh, woe is me.
Woe.
Woe.
I'm in Indiana visiting Shawn's folks for a week, and one of the things I look forward to is grandpa's WiFi. Alas, poor York, it's not letting my laptop log-in. Thus, I am stuck with limited access. No sitting in the sunshine over looking the woodlands on his backporch blogging and emailing. Oh, woe! Oh, the humanity!
I drove eight hours for THIS!!
On the flip side, I'm expecting to get a lot of REAL writing done as well as *gasp* some reading. On the recomendation ofnaomikritzer, I bought Jo Walton's Farthing and am going to start it this week.
But, if you don't hear from me for days and days it's not because I hate you. It's because I hate this place.
Woe.
Woe.
I'm in Indiana visiting Shawn's folks for a week, and one of the things I look forward to is grandpa's WiFi. Alas, poor York, it's not letting my laptop log-in. Thus, I am stuck with limited access. No sitting in the sunshine over looking the woodlands on his backporch blogging and emailing. Oh, woe! Oh, the humanity!
I drove eight hours for THIS!!
On the flip side, I'm expecting to get a lot of REAL writing done as well as *gasp* some reading. On the recomendation of
naomikritzer, I bought Jo Walton's Farthing and am going to start it this week. But, if you don't hear from me for days and days it's not because I hate you. It's because I hate this place.
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Date: 2007-11-13 09:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-14 02:05 pm (UTC)We'll be home before Thanksgiving. Actually, I'm traveling back on my birthday (the 18th), and I mention this only for the sympathy factor. I really, really would rather be doing anything else on my big 4-Oh other than driving for eight hours straight from ValPo to St. Paul. *sigh*
Shawn and I are pretending my birthday is on the 19th, actually. So I get an extra day as a 39 year old.
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Date: 2007-11-14 03:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-13 09:44 pm (UTC)Reading in the sunshine overlooking the woodlands can be fun.
I enthusiastically second
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Date: 2007-11-14 02:06 pm (UTC)And, as you see, I CAN get on-line. Just not reliably.
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Date: 2007-11-14 02:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-14 02:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-14 02:15 pm (UTC)Crawling through the Intarwebs might be easier for me, though. ;) Explaining to someone else how to fix the wireless and fixing the wireless myself are different skillsets, y'know? And I'm much more experienced with laying on hands and saying, "Be healed!" But I'll see what I can do.
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Date: 2007-11-15 04:56 am (UTC)Silly me, I thought I was leaving behind internet problems by returning home. Now I'm here and a) my computer caught the technological version of AIDS in Guatemala, so I hardly dare to use it online b) nobody bothered to hook up our tower while I was away (and after two years of missed updates, why bother?) so there's great wireless throughout our house, taunting me because I can't use it and c) I have to go to the library if I want to use the net, even for something so simple as printing out my resume. I think I'm starting to develop an eye twitch from the frustration. I Mapquest everything, and to not have that one tool, that one tool alone at my fingertips, has caused me a LOT of trouble. I have interviews. I need to know how to get places!!!
Anywho, long story short, I feel for your internet troubles. Infrequent connection is almost worse than no connection at all, because it teases you.
Good luck with the writing!
-Mel
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Date: 2007-11-15 05:44 pm (UTC)I'm assuming you've tried other stuff to get rid of it.