I got kneed, in the Internet
Friday, May 2nd, 2008I’m going to have to leave work early because of my knee. The sensation of my jeans rubbing on the hideous grayish-reddish-black oozing scrape is making me ill in the stomach. I couldn’t even get to sleep last night because of the weight of the covers on it. And I can’t really bend the knee either so I couldn’t turn and sleep on my side and keep the covers away. All this has left me very sleepy today.
My Internet modem chose this morning to seek the next level of nirvana, and thus I will have no Internet at home all weekend. I’ll have to go to Starbucks and pay their thievery wireless charges unless I can find a free hotspot somewhere. Verizon wanted to send a tech out and asked, “So they can show up sometime on Monday between 8 AM and 5 PM. Will you be home?” Um no I have to go to work like normal people do–and you need a 9 hour window?? So after proposing several other days, and my repeating that I generally am expected at work every day, the representative said she would just send me a new modem. To arrive on Monday. No I cannot pick it up somewhere so that I have it tonight. It would make too much sense to allow that.
So I’ll be pretty much disconnected for the next three days. Well I suppose I have a lot of work I could get done. I still have a ton of photographs to process from some gigs I shot. Or I could watch television. I have a heap of magazines to get through and I have a couple of movies from Netflix that are waiting for me too. But it’s going to be really strange living like people did, like *I* did, for the majority of my life, without a computer connection to the outside.
If my microwave and CD changer break down at the same time as this Internet thing, I may have to be briefly hospitalized from the stress.