O-ho. Back from a walk in the woods and a few more computerless days. I actually had my new pooter delivered Saturday, but the nitwits have sent me the wrong sort of modem. Ahem, well, granted, it is the one listed on my order, so maybe it’s at least partly my fault. But their guy told me what to order, and I distinctly told him I had “two normal phone lines”, I can’t remember whether I actually said the word “analog” (which has got to be inaccurate, hasn’t it? Anyhow, it conveys the right idea) or not, but I sure as h*** didn’t say ISDN. And I have an ISDN modem sitting prettily in its box at home (where, due to this, I am not, I am in the same internet cafe).
Well, at least my new tower case is nice and blue and shiny (no, really).
Walk in the woods was nice and relaxing. Actually, the woods were nice and relaxing, the walk wasn’t. My father had got himself roped into emptying some “fall traps” (a container buried up to its rim in the ground so that any beetles etc. walking over the edge falls into it and are trapped) in a research area near the cabin. So that’s what we (him, my mother and me) spent most of Wednesday doing. It involved a lot of bending and traipsing through greenery (including burnt greenery, more aptly named blackery) and such, and trying to avoid spilling the stuff in the containers (it kills the beetles “humanely”) all over the place. This would have been tiresome enough, but silly me also had to go put her foot down a bog-hole the first thing she does… My right leg was consequently soaking wet from the thigh down for the rest of the day, and if you’ve ever tried walking around in wellies that are wet on the inside you’ll know it was not pleasant. Well, all very bracing and improving of character, I’m sure. At least I got plenty of fresh air and was reminded of all the pleasant aspects of my day-job (chair to sit on, coffee and cold drinking water readily available, no strenous excercise, shade…).
So, new job starts tomorrow, so I am about to leave this place to get home and rest (read: watch stupid movie on tv). Hopefully I’ll be able to get the right sort of modem sorted out pretty sharpish, until then I’ll be online in my social capacity only sporadically…