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[wiseheart]

Long and boring story behind the cut; read it at your own risk.

I didn't sleep well last night. My internet connection went away after midnight, and while my iPad mini managed to connect to some random wifi for a while, I was anxious about its return. When I first woke up at 2.15am, the mini was still connected. When I woke up for the second time, it no longer was, and I had no connection at my regular wifi, either.

I got so nervous that I booted up my geriatric laptop to see whether the internet was down for good or the mini was being skittish. It sometimes refuses to reconnect when the internet goes away - which, unfortunately, has happened a few times since Vodafone ate my old provider. Geriatric laptop managed to download my mail, so I concluded that the internet must have recovered while I slept. The mini still refused to connect.

I got really upset about that, since geriatric laptop needs approximately twelve minutes to load Firefox, and even if it manages, the pages freeze every other moment. I do have IE on it, but an older edition, and my antivirus programme refuses to connect to most of the pages I regularly visit, stating that the IE is no longer safe. Perhaps so, but it it a lot faster than Firefox, at least on the laptop.

When it was nearly time for me to disembark on my food run and was half-ready to connect IT guy next door, the mini suddenly realized that yay, there's internet again and has been working since then normally. I hope it will behave for the foreseeable future. *fingers crossed*

In my relief, I went a tad overboard with my shopping. That's the danger of sales: you always spend more money than your originally planned because getting things cheaper than usual is... errr... inspiring. Which is the ideology behind the whole thing, I guess.

Fortunately, Mum was her forgiving self. She said: "Oh, don't worry. Thank God we can afford it." Besides, one can always use more baking supplies. And buying some imported raspberries instead of ice cream is a healthy decision, right?

Other than that, I talked to my friend Erna on the phone, gave the mask-making kit I had bought weeks ago in a fit of madness a try and prepared a few things for tomorrow's baking. Oh, and I'm about to watch telly tonight. The Great British Bake-Off is back, and foolish me I've already missed the first two parts.

Comments

[artemis10002000]

Oh man, internet problems are the worst, especially when it's some mystery thing breaking and even if it fixes itself, it does so just as mysteriously. Completely useless in helping you in case this happens again. So frustrating. But hopefully, your internet will keep behaving now!


You definitely deserved to treat yourself after all that.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I always feel so helpless when something like this happens. Ad if they'd be telling: Just because you're paying us lots of money, it doesn't mean you have rights! Be grateful that we give you what you're paying for!

[meathiel]

I hate it when the internet is being capricious.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Me, too. We had sometimes problems in the UPC times, too, but Vodafone is evil. I tell you, EVIL!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

{{{hugs}}}

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Raspberries are always an option, healthy or not. You must be getting your internet from the same place as me. I have to keep switching the placement of my router every time we have a change in the weather. At the moment it's on top of the fireplace mantle. Tomorrow it may be by the window.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I've got cable internet -the same cable through which the telly comes -so, in theory, those things shouldn't be happening. Especially as there was nothing wrong with the telly at the same time.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I recognise the problem. We have an old, very basic, tablet that used to do the same thing, even if you switched both it and the modem off and on, it might take it two or three attempts. It has now reached a point where it says "OK - I can see the internet is back - but I refuse to connect to it..." It is the one we replaced eventually with the fairly simple windows tablet for Charlotte to use when she is here.

Bake Off has been good so far this year.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

It seems to be the time for splurging while shopping. I did this past weekend, too.

[manue7a.livejournal.com]

"Oh, don't worry. Thank God we can afford it."
I like that approach.
When I have to pay a high bill I try to be glad I actually can.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me, too. It reminds me of my childhood years when we were really, really poor and paying the bills was always a big challenge for Mum.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, we have what seem like routine internet outages. At least, they usually are fixed within a decent amount of time. Maddening to be without it though. It always seems to be just the internet that goes, TV rarely.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, same here. Fortunately not too often, though.

[wanderingmogwai.livejournal.com]

Ugh! Wifi woes! Isn't it distressing? Ours goes out almost every morning between 2am and 4am for about 20 minutes. I've stopped completely panicking about it but because of it I have to reset Mom's laptop so she can go online. It's a bit scary that I am the IT pro of the household! lol