Five Acres with a View

The technician for our wireless provider showed up this morning and quickly determined that we had a bad cable leading from the antenna into the house. Jack had to do some fiddling to get the router talking to the LAN again, but everything now seems to be working again.

I love the “Pikes Peak Library District.”:http://library.ppld.org/ Right now I am using an Internet connected PC in a very crowded room on the ground floor of the Penrose Library system. I had never been in this library before, which is in downtown Colorado Springs. The only drawback to their Internet lounge is that they limit your sessions to 55 minutes with a clock ticking in the corner.

I usually use the libraries in the north end of town, but Lody is having her teeth cleaned at a nearby animal hospital, and it didn’t seem worth while to go home and come back all that way. Our vet usually comes to the house for routine stuff, but uses the operating room of this clinic when she needs to do anestheasia.

Being without constant Internet access has been stressful. Even when I travel, I usually find someway of touching base with my email and regular web sites. I feel so out of touch. I have been reduced to watching TV for news updates. It seems very unnatural: how do people stand all the commercials?

Right now, we don’t even have an estimated time for when our high speed wireless Internet access will be working again. The signal is getting to the antenna on our house, but is getting lost between the antenna and the router. The regular technician has been sick with the flu and there has been an amazing lack of communication between him, the company for which he works, and us, the customers. I’ve been stuck at the house most of the week waiting for telephone calls that don’t come and service calls that don’t materialize. Slow, but reliable dial up service is looking better all the time over high speed but non-existant wireless access.

Obviously, non-family readers of this weblog can skip this post.

I’ve updated my Amazon Wish List for those baffled by what to give me for Christmas this year.

If I wanted to get myself a present, I would be baffled too, since indoor riding arenas are expensive! In addition to the Amazon list, I no longer have any clothes in my favorite color of teal, I am very low on cotton knit turtlenecks (since they keep shrinking every time they get washed), and we could use potholders and kitchen towels and a teapot cosy.