A way better day

[susandennis]

I'm still wallowing in the glory that is having the internet back. I spent nearly 50 years without it and now just knowing it's not available to me makes me instacraze. And that's even when I have my phone's data available as well as my neighbor's internet. So weird.

But I'm so glad to have it back. It's very disconcerting to know that my connection is so tenuous now. Those tiny wires are no longer sheathed and protected. I'm not even sure how to gt a good fix. Who do you call these days to fix telephone wire? And, if/when I figure that out, the fix will surely cause the connection to die again and so I'd have to have the internet tech back. I just hope the juryrigged solution we have now outlives me.

I'm now watching the Front Door TV Network via a Fire TV app on the TV and listening to WCRB on Alexa while I internet on my chromebook. I've got the sound from my brother's shop (via his dropcam). Oh and I just printed out two pages of my next sewing pattern from my chromebook to the laser printer. Yeah. I totally gridded and happy about it.

Today it will be back to my regular programming. I think I might venture out at lunchtime to the library and grocery and gas. I could do it all tomorrow after my swim but might as well go ahead and get it done. I also want to get some ATM cash.

I have a new pattern to test out. It's for a cardigan but I want to make a pullover out of it. So this will absolutely be tried on throw away fabric first.

But, actually, before that I think I'll get dressed.

Comments

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I'm mildly amused that you choose to listen to WCRB, which is my local classical station, and whose programming I find to be even more unimaginative than most public classical stations these days (which is a pretty low bar). We only listen to it when we don't have easy access to other options (e.g., in the car or in Gloucester, where we haven't bothered to get Internet Radio); usually we do WQXR (NYC, marginally better) at home.

[susandennis]

It's your fault (or maybe John's, I can't remember). I started listening on Echo so I could find out what happens when the radio guy says 'tell alexa to tune into WCRB'.

It's my elevator music. I'm not a classical music connoisseur so it's perfect for me.

[jwg.livejournal.com]

I had my first email address on an MIT system in 1967. Then I got a Model 37 TTY installed at home - hooked up to a 150 baud modem on a line connected to our office PBX. The system we were developing, Multics, was put on the ArpaNet (predecessor to the Internet) in 1971.

[susandennis]

I didn't have my first email address until the 1980s.

And my first modem was a speedy 300 baud coupler.

So, yeah, late bloomer :)

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

We live our lives online now, that's just how it is! I've had it for 20 years and I'll never know how I survived without it.