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feeling: annoyed
listening to: the jellyfish song... we'll leave it at that
What the? Ok, has Google finally managed to completely pwn every other webhost in existence or something? I swear NOT A SINGLE WEBSITE is loading for me tonight except Google and, conveniently, Blogger. Those with Blogger accounts should know why that's such a convenience. But yeah, I have tried to view a zillion other pages and nothing. Huge database pages, forum pages, small homepages, petsites, journal pages, email hosts, Japanese pages, even Russian pages... and NOTHING. Except Google and Blogger.
Or is it just this laptop suddenly developing a bias toward Google and its minions? I wouldn't know since it's THE ONLY MACHINE AVAILABLE TO ME RIGHT NOW.
Do I appear tense? >> My computer's been out of commission since Saturday and I've spent every minute since wanting to kill things. Not only am I painfully bored without it, but I've also realized that I'm essentially useless without it too. I've already lost a couple translation jobs, I can't take on new ones because this laptop is worthless, I can't even do any of the activities that allowed me to practice my Japanese and thus improve my odds of doing actual translations well. I can't do or practice or contribute ANYthing on a machine that can barely run two programs at the same time and only occasionally spares the decency to let me check my email without crashing the browser. Sad when these things happen to make you realize that not only your entertainment, but also nearly every ounce of your personal value, revolves around a computer.
True, in short spurts throughout some days I find opportunities to use the parents' computer downstairs, which is sort of halfway in between the power of this laptop and my own computer. But I can only use it when they're not using it or the office desk it's set up on. My parents both do a surprising amount of office-type work in there, really. And occasionally I use it after they've gone to bed, but I don't like to because it tends to keep them awake. Not my fault their keyboard is so ridiculously old and rattly. *mutter*
But yeah... not doing that tonight because mom has to get up early in the morning to visit a doctor somewhere and have her shoulder joint broken open. Sounds gruesome, huh? But I guess they determined that the problem was a frozen joint, which means a bunch of little adhesions sort of like cobwebs have formed between the ball and socket of her shoulder joint and locked them together, resulting in lots of immobility and pain. Of course that's going to continue for a few weeks as she recovers from this, but hopefully in the long run it'll help. It's been bothering her for a couple years, so I guess a few additional weeks are a small price to pay if it's effective.
Wow, I really got rambly there.
But again, point is, I WANT MY INTERNET. Stupid technological world. If you're going to strand me on this miserable little laptop for weeks or even months, at least leave me with more of an internet connection than Google.
I'm sure it's just this laptop, but what the heck could've happened to this laptop to make it do that? I'm confused. And annoyed. And grr. I want my computer back.
comment! (1)
dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 5/03/2007 03:02:00 AM
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