Molesting ocean
Oh man, dialup is slooooooooow!
Amazingly, my computer has a modem. Being a tried-and-true fast internet junkie, I'm sure I wouldn't have paid for a modem to be included, so it must have come standard. Good thing too, I suppose. Doesn't really seem to be a full-service modem, however. It connects, but it doesn't dial. I have to first dial the number on my phone, then click ok on the computer, then hang up the phone. The procedure really confused me at first. I've never heard of a modem that doesn't dial before! Eventually I figured it out. Then, since I only have one phone jack in my room, I had to seek out my roommate's phone in order to dial in. I've since moved my phone out to the kitchen so that it can stay connected while I'm trying to go online and so that I can use it to dial in.
But it's so slow! It seemed alright at first. It's fine for basic emailing and for IMing. But it takes a really long time to load websites. It took me 8 minutes to update my netflix queue the other day. And attachments are bad news. It took half an hour to check my email a few days ago since someone sent me a jpeg. I shudder to think of what a pdf would do!
Yeah... I'm entertaining thoughts of expensive cable internet =).
Right now I'm AWOL in Santa Barbara. I haven't had a vacation in a very very very long time, and I decided that the time was now! Yay! And Jenny has fast internet :D.
Yesterday Shasta and I played lots. We went for a nice walk on the bluffs to the beach. Then we met up with Jenny at a different beach for her open water swim workout. I decided to display my toughness by going all the way in without a wetsuit. Unfortunately, just as I got past the band of seaweed and rocks in the surf, I got struck by a huge wave that knocked me over, scraped my knee, and shoved tons of seaweed into my swim suit. It was grodie. There were all sorts of seaweed in my bikini. There was the stringy kind, the red kind, the light green sea lettuce kind, and probably other, less identifiable kinds. I've now been brutalized by both the Atlantic and the Pacific. (The Atlantic got me when we went to Cape Cod for a summer vacation when I was a little kid.) Bad oceans, bad!
Amazingly, my computer has a modem. Being a tried-and-true fast internet junkie, I'm sure I wouldn't have paid for a modem to be included, so it must have come standard. Good thing too, I suppose. Doesn't really seem to be a full-service modem, however. It connects, but it doesn't dial. I have to first dial the number on my phone, then click ok on the computer, then hang up the phone. The procedure really confused me at first. I've never heard of a modem that doesn't dial before! Eventually I figured it out. Then, since I only have one phone jack in my room, I had to seek out my roommate's phone in order to dial in. I've since moved my phone out to the kitchen so that it can stay connected while I'm trying to go online and so that I can use it to dial in.
But it's so slow! It seemed alright at first. It's fine for basic emailing and for IMing. But it takes a really long time to load websites. It took me 8 minutes to update my netflix queue the other day. And attachments are bad news. It took half an hour to check my email a few days ago since someone sent me a jpeg. I shudder to think of what a pdf would do!
Yeah... I'm entertaining thoughts of expensive cable internet =).
Right now I'm AWOL in Santa Barbara. I haven't had a vacation in a very very very long time, and I decided that the time was now! Yay! And Jenny has fast internet :D.
Yesterday Shasta and I played lots. We went for a nice walk on the bluffs to the beach. Then we met up with Jenny at a different beach for her open water swim workout. I decided to display my toughness by going all the way in without a wetsuit. Unfortunately, just as I got past the band of seaweed and rocks in the surf, I got struck by a huge wave that knocked me over, scraped my knee, and shoved tons of seaweed into my swim suit. It was grodie. There were all sorts of seaweed in my bikini. There was the stringy kind, the red kind, the light green sea lettuce kind, and probably other, less identifiable kinds. I've now been brutalized by both the Atlantic and the Pacific. (The Atlantic got me when we went to Cape Cod for a summer vacation when I was a little kid.) Bad oceans, bad!
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