In the unknown amount of time I have on my home internet connection today, I'd like to, in the words of the great Jen "Flash" Andrews, "clean out my closet" a little bit.
- My lousy internet connection. I never got a chance to send my choice words to Verizon because my connection went out again. We got our new set of filters late Monday, and everything was going swimmingly....until Tuesday morning, when our connection was down again. I spent a nice chunk of time on the phone with Verizon, and we couldn't get it to work, even if just the modem cable was plugged directly into the phone jack. Something is obviously really wrong, so a technician needs to come out--but no one's available until tomorrow morning (and Thursday is really not a good day for me to have a repairman at my house, since I'll be heading to Las Vegas for the WFTDA Conference). After I hung up with Verizon, I tried the connection one more time, and it worked (of course)---for all of 3 hours, and then I was kicked off without warning. No more internet for us...until this morning. When I went to check on our connection, it was back. I assume it will go away again at some point in the near future.
- What I can't do online is download podcasts AND surf the web at the same time. Downloads really suck all the bandwidth. Forget trying to watch a video. And a typical 1 hour podcast takes a long time to load--probably a good 15 minutes. I mean, I'm trying to download a podcast now, and it's saying about 40 minutes. That's not quite accurate, but you get the picture. If I'm trying to download more than one, watch out! There's nothing quite as scary as seeing "8 hours" when you're trying to download a 55 MB file. It's as if I'm on a dial-up 28.8 modem. Anyway, I'm running low on my podcasts and I need to stock up. It'd be nice to do that before I leave.
- Cleaning house. Since I have the Verizon guy coming over tomorrow, I have to clean up my office, which frankly, hasn't seen a duster or a broom in months. This will not be pleasant. I also have stacks of books all over the place, since one of my bookshelves is starting to pull out of a wall. Magazines have also apparently come here to die, though I like to call them my "sample issue collection." So what if they're in piles, right? They're research!
- Vegas! Yep, I'm heading to Las Vegas for my first WFTDA Conference. I'm excited to see old friends, make new ones, and talk roller derby for a weekend. I haven't been to Vegas since 1993, and I've heard it's changed a little bit. I don't know what I'm in for, but I hope it'll be a good time.
That's about it from here....it's been quite the week in terms of not being able to work, and I'm getting tired of that frustration. Hopefully next week will be a bit easier.
Your pal,
Jill
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