My 374th entry in this journal is brought to you live from my very own home.
Two lovely young men have just installed my ADSL modem, splitter and cables, set everything up and by the time they were finished, I could kiss them...and I am ever so happy that I decided to get the professionals in because as it turned out, my worst nightmare did come true and the splitter the provider had sent me appeared to be defective. Now had I not rung for assistance, I would never have known this and, having failed to get a signal, would undoubtedly have proceeded in taking out my frustration on the computer itself, by dropping it from a very great height. It's what I do when technology baffles me. I smash the offending item to bits. I can't tell you how many Walkmans have suffered this fate, simply because I failed to remember to exchange the batteries, and couldn't work out why the bloody things wouldn't work anymore.
Anyway, YAY! for the Internet! I'm finally on it!
Two lovely young men have just installed my ADSL modem, splitter and cables, set everything up and by the time they were finished, I could kiss them...and I am ever so happy that I decided to get the professionals in because as it turned out, my worst nightmare did come true and the splitter the provider had sent me appeared to be defective. Now had I not rung for assistance, I would never have known this and, having failed to get a signal, would undoubtedly have proceeded in taking out my frustration on the computer itself, by dropping it from a very great height. It's what I do when technology baffles me. I smash the offending item to bits. I can't tell you how many Walkmans have suffered this fate, simply because I failed to remember to exchange the batteries, and couldn't work out why the bloody things wouldn't work anymore.
Anyway, YAY! for the Internet! I'm finally on it!
- Current Mood:
ecstatic - Current Music:'Train In Vain'- The Clash
Comments
They said they'd arrive some time between 8 am and 1 pm, so I've been up since 5, totally unable to contain my excitement. I've had more coffee than is good for me and am still a bit worried my current good fortune, i.e. me being online, isn't going to last, but on the whole, I think it's safe to say that I've never been happier.
Yay for pretty young men
Now you can join in the silly middle-of-the-night scrapes me and
No hope for you now...
Woot! Welcome...now we can talk when the mood strikes us, instead of exchaning comments stretched out over days...
Are you on IM already?
Do you know how long I've already been sitting at my computer today, and without IM? Do you?
I'm questioning the wisdom of having given in to temptation at last, while at the same time petting my modem and thanking my lucky stars that finally I'm online!