Well, it’s officially a stereotypical Monday. My desktop won’t/can’t connect to the Internet, no matter what I unplug/replug/switch on/switch off/restart; the laptop (connected to the emergency upstairs in-house wireless) conks out every so often with a “no bootable device found” message when I try to restart four times out of five.
A headache should not be this severe, this early in the morning.
The Internet isn’t exactly required for work, it just makes it a heck of a lot easier when I have to check facts for which I have no hard copy references. Also, I can’t check my email for answers to the questions I asked last Friday, or ask new ones via that medium if they arise. I could call, but the questions are kind of niggly and not really worth that.
Much with the grr. And HRH has gone and double-booked himself for the evening, telling the neighbours he’d finish painting their bathroom tonight (as usual it’s taking longer than originally expected, because the people who installed the ceiling vent didn’t properly finish or sand the plastering, so what should have been a two-hour job has already taken four and will take another one). Also, I’m fairly certain he’s forgotten he said he’d create and lead tonight’s coven ritual (if he’s even going to be there), which means it falls into my lap.
I’m not a happy girl at the moment. And I should log off before the laptop decides to crash again.
(I did have an excellent weekend, however, which began Friday night celebrating my birthday with the Preston-LeBlancs at a pub dinner and a (3D IMAX!) showing of Order of the Phoenix, continued through Saturday with a delicious birthday dinner made by my in-laws, and culminating in a nice lazy Sunday. Also? Presents! Hurrah!)
Are you on sympatico?
E is – and he just called and they have a message saying the Montreal area is experiencing problems today.
I’m on videotron and no problems so far… *crosses fingers*
Oh, thank you — I just fired up the laptop to check the Sympatico site for that very reason. It’s good to know it’s not me or my system… bad to know it’s island-wide, with no idea when things might resolve.
Thanks, Rosy. I appreciate it.
We are on Sympatico at home as well, and it has been out since around 8:30 this morning. Julia is going stir crazy at home with Arthur. :(
Happy belated birthday!
Many bunny hugs,
Maia
Yeah, it was island-wide, but now is happily resolved!
Friday was the highlight of our weekend. It was pretty well downhill from there, including a Saturday that some very inconsiderate individuals wasted for us. Anyway, thank you for Friday. We had such a great time, and it made Saturday slightly less annoying.
Yeah, Sympatico is in my bad books, and has been for a while, now.
And yeah about Monday, too: I had Heather’s dog pee on my head this morning, while I was out on my balcony deadheading my flowers.
Hope your day gets better. . . what’s left of it, that is!
Ah. Good to know that it’s Sympatico and not me. My sympathies, though, because I too had the singular pleasure of not having the internet this morning.