Moving right along
Nov. 21st, 2004 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisAfter my last entry, I lost my free network. TMobile kicked the cash register in. They have a variety of deals but the one that suits me best is $6.00 an hour - min one hour. I am now in the Atlanta airport - yet another TMobile hot spot. But I think I'll hold off for now.
The flight to Atlanta was ok. I didn't get as much sleep as what I would have liked but otherwise it was fine. I pulled into a "Southern Food" stall in a food court here when I got off the plane and had a delicious breakfast. I mean delicious!
Now I'm and hour and a half into my 3 hour layover. On to Charleston. Polly is picking me up at airport.
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The news of our governor's race is out. Our two candidates are 192 votes apart. The funny part is hearing all the various pronunciations of the last name of the Democratic candidate. Her name is pronounced gregWAR. CNN just said Gregworry. NPR yesterday said Gregiare. I think they are all just waiting to see if they really have to learn it or will get off the hook with the Republican - Rossi.
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Now it is Sunday night. I'm in a nice room at the Hampton Inn typing on a nice little laptop lap desk they laid on on my bed. It also had a nice little tent card on it saying that they have free wi fi... My mini does not believe it. Searched and found none and wouldn't even be convinced when I gave it the specific SSID. So Treo is acting as my modem right now and doing a fine job. Plus, it's charging off the mini at the same time. Now, that's efficient.
Mom is fine. She's old and smaller but fine. And oh so happy to see me. I asked her if she wanted the computer first or the Tivo first and she said she didn't care. So we went with computer. I had the DSL modem and two ethernet cards my brother had sent (one and a spare) but turns out, she already had one in her computer! The rest of the installation was a mess. I ended up spending two solid hours on the phone with a BellSouth woman who was wonderful. We tried everything - all systems looked like a go but no internet love. She kept putting me on hold to do research. I kept rebooting and removing old software. FINALLY, we decided to do a step by step through all the software and then a step by step through all the hardware and if that didn't work she was going to send me an expert.
We took a collective deep breath and started with the machine's IP. No IP. what??? The fucking net card was disabled!!!! who disables a net card and why???? Enabled it an Bob was the best uncle in the world. Mom watched the whole operation in terror. When it was done, she said she wasn't going to touch the computer because she didn't want to break it.
I went out to get us some dinner and bring it back and of course when I got back she was deep into a long, involved email to her cousin in Texas. So much for conquering fear. She has a huge list of stuff she wants to look up. I think she's just beyond delighted. And so am I.
But tomorrow the first order of biz is a new monitor - flat panel. The CRT she has now is horrible and huge. She needs a crisp screen and more desk real estate.
Then it will be on to Tivo. This has me a little nervous because of her Comcast set up. But, nothing ventured...
Now I need to get my shit organized for tomorrow and hit the hay. I'm about red eyed out.
And, p.s. before I let the Bellsouth woman go, I gave her my email address and asked her to send me the email address of where I can write to ensure her management team knows that she is the best. She happily obliged.
The flight to Atlanta was ok. I didn't get as much sleep as what I would have liked but otherwise it was fine. I pulled into a "Southern Food" stall in a food court here when I got off the plane and had a delicious breakfast. I mean delicious!
Now I'm and hour and a half into my 3 hour layover. On to Charleston. Polly is picking me up at airport.
---------------
The news of our governor's race is out. Our two candidates are 192 votes apart. The funny part is hearing all the various pronunciations of the last name of the Democratic candidate. Her name is pronounced gregWAR. CNN just said Gregworry. NPR yesterday said Gregiare. I think they are all just waiting to see if they really have to learn it or will get off the hook with the Republican - Rossi.
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Now it is Sunday night. I'm in a nice room at the Hampton Inn typing on a nice little laptop lap desk they laid on on my bed. It also had a nice little tent card on it saying that they have free wi fi... My mini does not believe it. Searched and found none and wouldn't even be convinced when I gave it the specific SSID. So Treo is acting as my modem right now and doing a fine job. Plus, it's charging off the mini at the same time. Now, that's efficient.
Mom is fine. She's old and smaller but fine. And oh so happy to see me. I asked her if she wanted the computer first or the Tivo first and she said she didn't care. So we went with computer. I had the DSL modem and two ethernet cards my brother had sent (one and a spare) but turns out, she already had one in her computer! The rest of the installation was a mess. I ended up spending two solid hours on the phone with a BellSouth woman who was wonderful. We tried everything - all systems looked like a go but no internet love. She kept putting me on hold to do research. I kept rebooting and removing old software. FINALLY, we decided to do a step by step through all the software and then a step by step through all the hardware and if that didn't work she was going to send me an expert.
We took a collective deep breath and started with the machine's IP. No IP. what??? The fucking net card was disabled!!!! who disables a net card and why???? Enabled it an Bob was the best uncle in the world. Mom watched the whole operation in terror. When it was done, she said she wasn't going to touch the computer because she didn't want to break it.
I went out to get us some dinner and bring it back and of course when I got back she was deep into a long, involved email to her cousin in Texas. So much for conquering fear. She has a huge list of stuff she wants to look up. I think she's just beyond delighted. And so am I.
But tomorrow the first order of biz is a new monitor - flat panel. The CRT she has now is horrible and huge. She needs a crisp screen and more desk real estate.
Then it will be on to Tivo. This has me a little nervous because of her Comcast set up. But, nothing ventured...
Now I need to get my shit organized for tomorrow and hit the hay. I'm about red eyed out.
And, p.s. before I let the Bellsouth woman go, I gave her my email address and asked her to send me the email address of where I can write to ensure her management team knows that she is the best. She happily obliged.
