<BORING entry warning>
My home wireless connection has been getting progressively dodgy.
Blinking lights all over the show.
- The PC card can find multiple networks nearby (wireless cards ok)… …interference?
- Plugging a cable directly from the DSL modem to Tinkerbell gives good connectivity speed (Modem ok).
- Cable plugged into the wireless router gave a connection strength so low that Tinkerbell couldn’t get an IP address. Router/gateway and Wireless dodgy.
Naturally I tried switching everything off-on, in every possible order of switch-on-off-ability. Patiently watched all the blinking* lights and tried connectivity after waiting for several minutes incase there was a refractory period. Conclusion? Looks like time to buy a new gateway, router and wireless access point. What’s a good one to buy, reliable, versataile, strong signal, easy to ‘configure’? I don’t have a clue. Sigh.
With Tinkerbell taking a dive in September and now this it looks like maintaining a home network requires the ‘user’ to develop all sorts of trouble-shooting skills. Sigh. Guess I’m becoming a geek despite myself!
Wendy can-plug-unplug-power-up-down-and-wait-for-connections-to-not-happen
*blinking
1: off-and-on; “the blinking signal light”
2: closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly; “he stood blinking in the bright sunlight”
3: (used of persons) informal intensifiers; “what a bally (or blinking) nuisance”; “a bloody fool”; “a crashing bore”; “you flaming idiot”
The night before Snewtea moved I dreamt about the move. In the dream I’m
Driving through the backroads of Leicestershire. I drive straight to SnewTea’s new home in Leicester city center. His home is a stunning victorian townhouse near ‘The Charlotte‘ concert venue. This is wonderful. I think I’ll move to Leicester too. I’ll be able to walk to great gigs and find my home and car easily because I know my way around.
It was a pleasing dream.
In reality:
- the commute from Leicester UK to NW USA is impractical.
- I got lost trying to find my way back from SnewTea’s actual new home.
- I miss local Leicestershire produced, fresh, red leicester and Stilton. Dreamy cheeeeese! Excerpt, from this research where the sponsor has a major investment in ’spinning’ the results:
85% of females who ate Stilton had some of the most unusual dreams of the whole study. 65% of people eating Cheddar dreamt about celebrities, over 65% of participants eating Red Leicester revisited their schooldays, all female participants who ate British Brie had nice relaxing dreams whereas male participants had cryptic dreams, two thirds of all those who ate Lancashire had a dream about work and over half of Cheshire eaters had a dreamless sleep.
As reported the research is fundamentally flawed because we don’t know what these people dreamed about when they weren’t eating the specified cheese, or what other potential dream modifiers they were experiencing (e.g. alcohol, waking-events etc)…. Doh! Nonetheless, it is a fun little read. That the UK has an official body called the “Cheese Board’ caused rampant, cat-scaring, guffawing in the Wendy House.
I will start investigating the US-cheese-dream relationship for one gal, unsponsored, uncontrolled, and un(counter)balanced, on high doses of tea….
What the HECK?
It is CHEEESE!
Wendy on-dreamtastic-week
