Bad Net Morning

February 3, 1998

Well, it seems that Internet problems come in pairs. Last night Tech's net connection died, and this morning it's mine that's gone. I just called Jevim for a couple minutes on my free phone card to let him know why I had suddenly disappeared, and hearing his voice helped immensely.

He'd gotten the e-mail about why the channel got unregistered, and said it was okay, and he forgave my stupidity, but I was still upset over the whole thing. Still am, actually, but I'm feeling better now that I've heard him telling me it's okay and he's not upset with me (and that he doesn't want me to bang my head against the wall 'cause my skull's not thick enough; he said I should use a pillow. *chuckle*

Part of me would like to curl up in bed again and go back to sleep, but I have the feeling if I did that, the net connection would clear right up, and then where would I be? Oh well... if I'm not able to get back on IRC in another hour, I'll probably climb back in bed for a while.

Well, I did go to sleep even before Jevim headed off to class. I woke up and came and checked to see if my ISP was back on the net at 9 and then again at 9:30, when I knew Jevim would be leaving for class then or shortly thereafter, and of course, we were still off the backbone. I went back to sleep again and had plenty of strange dreams, then woke up around 10:40. The net connection was back, but Jevim long gone, though he did send me an ICQ message saying he'd hop back online as soon as he got in.

I was hungry and was going to make some soup or ramen, but of course, all the pots and saucepans were dirty and piled up in and around the sink. After debating for several minutes, I rolled up my sleeves and filled the sink with water and dish soap and set about washing, not just the saucepan I wanted, but all the dishes.

When I was about 2/3 done, Mom asked if I wanted to go out for lunch, and I told her I didn't feel like it (I stayed in bed too long and I could reeeeeally use a backrub right about now). Then when I was about 3/4 of the way done, she asked if I wanted to go to the grocery store with her. I do, because it will be my last trip before she's gone for three weeks and I'm stranded here, but I was still in my sweats, with messy hair, and hands wrist-deep in dishwater, so she said she'd go to the post office first. Gee, thanks.... I'm in the process of heating some soup, and I'm going to eat that and then get dressed and ready to go. If she goes without me, we'll just have to go again later in the week, because I'm not going to be stuck here without food I want.

Mom surprised me... she came back from the post office with a collector's sheet of stamps, which included a teddy bear stamp, and some others I like. It's the first in a series of ten, commemorating the decades of the 1900s, so I think I will see if I can collect all ten.

We went to the grocery store, and I got everything I'd wanted and a few things more, then we came home and I got some caffeine into my system, which helped me feel a bit better. My cat had an appointment at the vet's at 3, so we took her out there, and she was making such pitiful noises in the examining room, you would have thought they were killing her; she got an antibiotic, and two booster shots, and they had to stick her about 5 times to get her all the shots. She wasn't feeling too peppy this evening when I gave her her liquid antibiotics, so I hope she's feeling better in the morning.

Connie was online when I got back home and got on, and she'd sent me an ICQ message asking if I was really offline, or just hiding. It kind of hurt my feelings, but I guess it shouldn't have. We chatted for a while, and Jevim got back from classes and so he and I chatted while he did his homework, and he eventually realized that Connie and I were in the channel chatting and joined us.

He stayed online most of the rest of the evening, except for going to watch Babylon 5, and then wandering off for a bit later after he'd finished some of his homework. Connie came and went a couple times, and we chatted, and after she had gone off for the night, Jevim and I played some backgammon, and I sent him some of my .WAV files, which I was going through and cleaning out. I used to have over 100MB of .WAVs but I got low on disk space and had to start deleting. I think I canned over 10MB tonight, and I know have over 120MB free on my D: Drive, which is good, considering it was under 800MB to start with.

After we finished backgammon for the night, Jevim and I talked a bit more, and a friend in my other hangout channel messaged me to see where I was, because I was sitting in the channel and not saying anything. I didn't have a window for the channel, so I tried to join it, but nothing happened. I tried parting instead and rejoined, and there it was, and everyone there said "welcome back". *chuckle* I'd been having problems with mIRC earlier, and I suspect that was one of the side effects. Anyway, I didn't stay in there long, as Jevim asked if I wanted to talk on the phone for a few minutes before he went to sleep.

I hopped offline and called him -- it took three times to get my redialer to work right, I think technology was just out to get me today!!! -- and we talked for a bit, about furniture and what we would have and what we would buy when we moved, and a few other things, til he was sleepy enough to turn out the light. I wanted to finish this up, and then I'll be off to bed shortly too, as it's already after midnight.

I felt like such a big bad meanie after putting my cat through the trip to the vet's (she got infected when she was spayed and she had a very rough time with the vet poking and prodding her, so she does NOT like to go back in the examining room, and she turns into a holy terror of teeth and claws). Then when I saw she wasn't feeling good tonight (she always gets to feeling bad after her vaccinations), I felt worse, because yesterday, she had nothing worse than a scratch on her face that didn't seem to be irritating her. I hope she feels better tomorrow... I wish she would come sleep with me, but she was on mom's bed when last I saw her. *sigh*

Type to you later....

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