Finally – we has the internets again!\u00a0 Yipee!\u00a0 Modem apparently arrived Friday.\u00a0 We got notice of the package at the post office yesterday.\u00a0 Yeah, our mail is really reliable around here.\u00a0 Picked it up from the corner post office yesterday evening on the way to a dinner party with the hubby’s hoity toity friends (as opposed to the usual neighbourhood shindig), and put it aside to install today.\u00a0 Plugged it in.\u00a0 Watched the pretty lights flash.\u00a0 Changed a few settings.\u00a0 Set my WEP key. Et voila!\u00a0 All laptops in the house are now back up and surfing away.<\/p>\n
Life is good again.\u00a0 With the exception of when I’ve been traveling I’ve never been without an available internet connection since 1993.\u00a0 Sure, things have changed a lot since I used to dial into the university servers or BBS’ but having had a high speed (or what they like to call high speed) connection in the home since 1997, these four days have seemed like a throwback to the dark ages.<\/p>\n
And mcpypr (you and I both know who you are) – thanks for the offer to piggy back off your connection this weekend.\u00a0 Of course, since you sent the offer via my blog on a Friday evening and we didn’t get our connection back online until now, I didn’t see it until I downloaded my email this afternoon.\u00a0 Best laid plans of mice and men.\u00a0 If all goes well, I’ll actually see you at dinner tonight before you read this on my blog.<\/p>\n
Perhaps next time *oh gawds, please don’t let there be a next time* you’ll remember to make your offer via the low tech tele-phoney thingy…<\/p>\n
I know y’all are desperate to learn what I was doing while we were offline.\u00a0 Sit down.\u00a0 This is a bit of a shocker. I started reading some of my textbooks.\u00a0 Now usually I put my pretty<\/span> expensive<\/span> textbooks<\/span> paperweights on a shelf in my office in the basement and skim read them as I move through each chapter. I’d rather gather up the names of topics or authors and dig through journals to read a variety of articles on a topic than read a one size fits no one<\/em> textbook. Granted, there have been a few classes where I’ve read the listed books cover to cover – if the topic or writing style really interests me.\u00a0 However, most of my texts are pretty pristine.\u00a0 I love to read.\u00a0 I just don’t love to read the books I’m being assigned in my classes.\u00a0 So, these past few days I’ve been hiding out in my basement reading my textbooks for the current semester.\u00a0 Ooh, and I’m 1\/2 way through writing the paper I have due on Friday.<\/p>\n The hubby, in his time of disconnection, started in on his honey-do list.\u00a0 The lawns have been mowed.\u00a0 The dog licenses have been renewed.\u00a0 The permit to replace the ugliest garage in Edmonton<\/em> has been obtained.\u00a0 Plans are being drawn.\u00a0 Our contractor is off getting quotes on the materials and the garage is being emptied of all the bits and pieces it’s accumulated over the years. Most importantly, for the first time in a year the third door in my pickup truck opens.\u00a0 The plastic froze and the door handle snapped in winter 2007.\u00a0 Yes, you read that right.\u00a0 Nearly 18 months ago.\u00a0 Hubby complained a 60$ part was too expensive and never had time to fix it.\u00a0 Since he has an imminent departure to the sandbox in his future, I’ve been campaigning heavily that it be fixed before he leaves.\u00a0 How else would I manage to get groceries home or his dogs to the vet if I can’t open the door? He fixed it on Thursday.\u00a0 I’ve been all smiles since.\u00a0 Ok, so I’m silly to keep opening the third door for no reason.\u00a0 I missed it.\u00a0 We need time to bond.\u00a0 Move along. Nothing to see here.<\/p>\n Either way the hubby seems to be on a roll this week.\u00a0 Perhaps next week all the weather stripping on my doors will be replaced while I finish my paper.\u00a0 A girl can dream…<\/p>\n For now, I have a bazillion blogs to catch up on.\u00a0 Excuse me while I do some drive-by blog reading.<\/p>\n It’s nice to be back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Finally – we has the internets again!\u00a0 Yipee!\u00a0 Modem apparently arrived Friday.\u00a0 We got notice of the package at the post office yesterday.\u00a0 Yeah, our mail is really reliable around here.\u00a0 Picked it up from the corner post office yesterday evening on the way to a dinner party with the hubby’s hoity toity friends (as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}