I was wrong. We're not all going to hell. This *is* hell.

Which at least explains the weather we've been having lately. I hate the heat...

Everyone and then some knows why torturing people is a bad idea. No, it's not because it's wrong (though that's certainly an important consideration), it's because 1. if you treat them badly, their counterparts have no reason to treat your people well and 2. torturing them doesn't produce good results.

*sighs*

And, in your weekly bit of TMI, I'm breaking out in a pimply rash all over my body. Doesn't itch, though. It's either non-itchy chickenpox, or I really need to do some laundry around here. Probably the latter. I keep putting it off, but then I end up with no clean clothes.... (This from the girl who is currently washing her hands at least once an hour because, I swear, when I do, the water turns grey, and I can feel the dirt on them.)

Problem.

I eventually did get a router set up, my brother-in-law did it. He had to exchange our piece-of-crap modem for another one which wasn't quite so bad, and there was peace within the house.

Fastforward to today, about, say, 5am. I have to plug in my cell phone recharger, so I unplug the router, plug in the recharger, and plug the router into a different slot on the power strip. No problem, right? Lo, what fools these mortals (me) be.

Once I've done this, the modem decides it doesn't want to talk to the router. And, when we attempt to unplug the modem from the router, and directly into my computer, it doesn't want to send anything to my computer either. It's still in its snit, so we set up the old modem - but that one, for whatever reason, refuses to respond to an ethernet cable, meaning we can't set up the router with it, meaning that there is no longer peace in our time.

I didn't even unplug the fucking modem to start with, but now I need to deal with its tantrums?

Anyway, we called the cable company, and they'll be dropping by Tuesday. I'll ask them for a new modem, since the one they gave us when they set us up is a cheap-ass piece of crap, and quite possibly a little broken. After all, it has a slot for an ethernet cable, but it doesn't work.

However, I'd really like to avoid all this, since it's a three-day-wait, and my mom will want her internet back. So, um... any ideas?

I've noticed I have a lot of new people reading this thing...

I know some of you, because I friended you first (at least, I know who you are), but others... not so much. And I suspect I have people reading who haven't friended me.

So, guess what time it is? Yes, it's time for Connie's periodic Statement of Principles!

( This is boring, but it's a nice summation of What to Expect )

There's more, I'm sure.

If you think you're only going to argue with me on a lot of these, and don't like arguing, here's your warning. If you like arguing, but are more into flaming than discussion, go away now, please. If you agree with most of these, or you like arguing with what you don't agree with, great. Nothing I love better than a good discussion. Hi, welcome!

Reviewing the reviews at Amazon....

Long time since I've done one of these. For those who are new around here, I choose the negative reviews because they're funnier, that's all.

( The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle )

( The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe )

( Half-blood Prince )

Bored now. *wanders off to play with the router a bit more, see if it's fixable*

Edit: Can you all see the entry where I beg you to help me with my tiny little problem?

An article taken from davidkevin

About... somebody during and after the second world war.

If you tried to sit down and read everything that had ever been written on that war, it'd probably take you a lifetime.