If you are wondering where I have been the past couple days....We had an accident involving a shovel and the internet cable. The cable lost! And I now have ZERO access at home. I also have no home phone since vonage runs off the cable. :c(
Of course trying to get Time Warner out in any kind of speedy manner just doesn't happen either. I go through the voicemail web of hell and get to a message that says "please call during regular business hours" which is monday to friday. Pfftt.
I need to be connected! So I went to Sam's Club and bought a Black Jack by Samsung. It has internet/email/IM...lots of bells and whistles but I need to learn to use them, and so far I'm having trouble just figuring out how to dial a call..*LOL* It will be nice for travelling I think, and it is only $20.00 a month more than I was already paying for the service.
I tried connecting with the laptop at Panera Bread with Jason this morning before he went to work and I went to church. He was giving me tutoring lessons on my new blackjack at the time....We couldn't get the puter connected there.
This afternoon I had a client house call....not far from the down town library in columbia which is open from 2 to 6 on sunday afternoon and has WI FI upstairs..so that's where I am.
It's very weird not having phone or internet at home. So many things we take for granted to log on and send a mail, answer a client, look up a reference, see what movies are playing, check the weather...good grief. I guess this is why I also got the black jack.
The other day on the way home from MD I stopped in Charlotte to hit Mary Jo's fabric outlet and the thread outlet and I got lost when trying to find the thread place. Tomtom didn't have the resources I needed to just look up the place by name...I had to have an address. So that meant that I had to go pull over somewhere, ask to see a yellow pages, and then get the address and put it in the tomtom. Now that I have net access on my phone I can just look up the address on the phone and put it in tomtom. It's a step up anyway.
Email is a pain on the phone, but at least I can get the word out when I can't get to the library to use the internet wifi!
I suppose this should give me more time to QUILT?!?
Unconnected In Irmo, SC
Bonnie
Oh poor you! It's awful not being able to connect. When I go 'home' to South africa, I have to rely on internet cafes and babysitters, so I often only get to check my email once a week if I'm lucky when I'm away. I do get LOTS more sewing done though. Best of luck getting back online.
ReplyDeleteI could imagine throughly enjoying the quiet that no internet or phone provided in my life -- though I'd want to prepare for that retreat not have it suddenly thrust on me by accident! Hang in there.
ReplyDeleteI hate it when my wifi goes out. How spoiled we've become!
ReplyDeleteI love the main library in Cola. You could be in a worse place to connect! Hope they fix you up soon.
I'm interested in doing the blackjack thing myself. Took my laptop to Panera Bread a few weeks ago and couldn't get connected either. I'm thinking it's because I didn't know what I was doing but I sure do want to learn how. Not having wifi is a pain.
ReplyDeleteDon't you wonder what we did in the "old" days when we had no computers, internet or cell phones! My kids can't believe I had none of those things as a kid!
ReplyDeleteHI there,
ReplyDeleteI am trying to contact you for an article I am doing for a national quilt magazine.
pls contact me asap.
thanks,
H2