aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh
Jan. 3rd, 2005 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
titusnowlYesterday I decided to try setting my computer up to put itself in Standby mode if I left it alone for more than 45 minutes - so it wouldn't just sit there running at full power the whole time I was at work, you know? And today, I came home early as I'd thrown up my breakfast about 1.5 hours into the day. And the computer came out of standby mode, and the internet worked fine, and I checked my email. Then I took a nap, and when I woke up about three hours later, the computer would not come out of standby mode, and when I powercycled it, the internet stopped working.
THis is really pissing me off. It's been an hour and a half now, and Justin needs to go to work in about an hour, and if I still don't have internet access by the time he leaves then I will be completely and utterly alone all night. It's bad enough that he goes to work right about the time I get home every single day, so I'm in essence completely alone all the time anyway except for when I'm in bed asleep - usually I can at least go online and have some poor shadow of human interaction, you know? But if the fucking computer doesn't start working I won't even have that, and I'm out of books to read, and we don't have even the standard ABC/CBS/NBC/PBS channels on our television because this city is fucking retarded, so I'll just have to sit by myself in a room with the lights on doing nothing by myself for six hours. Or try to sleep some more, and then wake up at 2 in the morning unable to sleep anymore, and sit up for six hours in a room with the lights off doing nothing by myself until it's time to go to work. WOuldn't that be fun?
THis is really pissing me off. It's been an hour and a half now, and Justin needs to go to work in about an hour, and if I still don't have internet access by the time he leaves then I will be completely and utterly alone all night. It's bad enough that he goes to work right about the time I get home every single day, so I'm in essence completely alone all the time anyway except for when I'm in bed asleep - usually I can at least go online and have some poor shadow of human interaction, you know? But if the fucking computer doesn't start working I won't even have that, and I'm out of books to read, and we don't have even the standard ABC/CBS/NBC/PBS channels on our television because this city is fucking retarded, so I'll just have to sit by myself in a room with the lights on doing nothing by myself for six hours. Or try to sleep some more, and then wake up at 2 in the morning unable to sleep anymore, and sit up for six hours in a room with the lights off doing nothing by myself until it's time to go to work. WOuldn't that be fun?
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Date: 2005-01-03 09:55 pm (UTC)Maybe this'll make you feel less stupid...one time back when I had dial-up, I lost connection all of a sudden. Huh, wonder why. Ran a bunch of hardware tests, and even posted on the Dope seeking help (the thread sank with no replies, for which I am now glad, since I would've just further embarrassed myself). Nothing worked. Well, said I, I guess this is the final kick I needed to sign up for broadband. So I order the kit, the kit comes, I crawl under the desk to disconnect the phone line from the modem and plug in the DSL cable, and I see...the phone line had already fallen out of the jack.
HUGE FOREHEAD SMACK! Occam's razor cuts again.