Car Trouble? It must be Wednesday

So Tuesday evening I was trying to get to Target to see about getting a DSL modem thing for my computer so I can get my home phone and home computer internet access working, and my car started overheating. Again. So I took it to the mechanics, who kept it,and promised to have it fixed for me by Noon, Wednesday. So I stayed home and waited, and waited and waited and it was finally done by 4pm. Hopefully fixed.

The upshot of this was I was away from a working computer for 24 hours. Ack! And several times during the day I thought of things i wanted to post, and couldn't. It was quite distressing.

I still haven't gotten the DSL thing, and if anyone who is smart about computers and can also dumb it down enough to explain it to me, can you tell me what I should be asking for? Are all DSL modoms the same, or do I have to make sure I have the make and model of my computer handy? It is a box? A wire? An imp? What? Help.

Hope everyone had a decent day yesterday and I'm going to try to catch up on the posts I missed. You know, in between doing actual work.

Sigh.

Car Trouble? It must be Wednesday

So Tuesday evening I was trying to get to Target to see about getting a DSL modem thing for my computer so I can get my home phone and home computer internet access working, and my car started overheating. Again. So I took it to the mechanics, who kept it,and promised to have it fixed for me by Noon, Wednesday. So I stayed home and waited, and waited and waited and it was finally done by 4pm. Hopefully fixed.

The upshot of this was I was away from a working computer for 24 hours. Ack! And several times during the day I thought of things i wanted to post, and couldn't. It was quite distressing.

I still haven't gotten the DSL thing, and if anyone who is smart about computers and can also dumb it down enough to explain it to me, can you tell me what I should be asking for? Are all DSL modoms the same, or do I have to make sure I have the make and model of my computer handy? It is a box? A wire? An imp? What? Help.

Hope everyone had a decent day yesterday and I'm going to try to catch up on the posts I missed. You know, in between doing actual work.

Sigh.

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I was sitting in my car at lunch today and flipping through the radio stations, and on one of the more 'easy listening' stations a song came on that I haven't heard since I was a child, and it made me giggle.

For those of you who were born too late to remember the 70s, you missed a decade filled with some of the most maudlin songs imaginable.

You think 'Emo' is bad? Try songs about a young wife dying of cancer. Or a song about a not very talented football player whose blind father sat in the bleachers every day near the speakers so he would hear his son's name called, and it never was until one day he does play, and wins the game only to tell the coach that his father passed away, and this was the first time 'my father saw me play'. Or a song about an unmarried pregnant girl who gets accidentally shot to death by her father who was actually gunning for the boy that got her in that situation in the first place.

Or the song that was on the radio today. I remember hearing it when I was, oh, gosh, around 7 or 8, and I liked it so much I bought the 45*. It was the first record I ever got. The song is called Seasons in the Sun and it is the lamentations of a young man who is dying and realising that he never really appreciated the things he had when he had them.

( The Lyrics )

The fact that I loved that song probably tells you more about me then you really need to know.

In closing, I'd like to mention that there is a Mockingbird that lives in the tree near my house, and it is utterly fascinating to here it do all its various calls.

*For those of you thinking, what's a 45, it is a vinyl record the approximate size of a CD that would hold 2 songs, one on each side.

(no subject)

I was sitting in my car at lunch today and flipping through the radio stations, and on one of the more 'easy listening' stations a song came on that I haven't heard since I was a child, and it made me giggle.

For those of you who were born too late to remember the 70s, you missed a decade filled with some of the most maudlin songs imaginable.

You think 'Emo' is bad? Try songs about a young wife dying of cancer. Or a song about a not very talented football player whose blind father sat in the bleachers every day near the speakers so he would hear his son's name called, and it never was until one day he does play, and wins the game only to tell the coach that his father passed away, and this was the first time 'my father saw me play'. Or a song about an unmarried pregnant girl who gets accidentally shot to death by her father who was actually gunning for the boy that got her in that situation in the first place.

Or the song that was on the radio today. I remember hearing it when I was, oh, gosh, around 7 or 8, and I liked it so much I bought the 45*. It was the first record I ever got. The song is called Seasons in the Sun and it is the lamentations of a young man who is dying and realising that he never really appreciated the things he had when he had them.

( The Lyrics )

The fact that I loved that song probably tells you more about me then you really need to know.

In closing, I'd like to mention that there is a Mockingbird that lives in the tree near my house, and it is utterly fascinating to here it do all its various calls.

*For those of you thinking, what's a 45, it is a vinyl record the approximate size of a CD that would hold 2 songs, one on each side.