Withdrawal and coping mechanisms
Oct. 30th, 2006 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mishadaySo Thursday night my DSL modem gave up the ghost. The frustrating part was that we had just pulled the Panther boss in ZG and she'd headed straight for me and killed me in two hits, and I was ready to sit back and spectate or get battle-rezed and... Nothing. Sat there watching the frozen screen for a few minutes before I got truly frantic.
I played phone tag with my ISP on Friday and finally got in touch with Qwest Saturday morning. An hour later, I'm left with an apologetic moron on the line and the uneasy feeling that my DSL modem is completely hosed. Like, nothing. The frustrating part is that I can connect to it and configure it, and Qwest can see it and somewhere inside it's just crippled and can't make the connection. *headdesk*
So then I played Diablo 2 while Dru went through MC for the first time. I'm so proud of how much he's done and stuff, but I'm sad I wasn't there. And I missed out on all sorts of good stuff for my pally and even *cries* 1 of the 2 sets of Netherwind Pants that dropped off Rag. The ones I've been wanting for eons.
Saturday night was pumpkin carving at John and Meg's. I got a little ambitious and did two - a standard cyclops and one of the little pattern things they had. Next year I want to do something patterny but not standard. Like John's Mondrian that was pretty cool. I dunno. The pumpkin curry soup was awesome, I need to grab Meg's recipe for that.
Sunday I finally made it back to the Title 9 warehouse sale across the street. (I was scared off by the lines on Friday) The shoes I'd sort of wanted were gone, but the comfy fuzzy pants I'd been eyeing were still there. Sooooo nice. I got home and Hobbes tried to climb in the bag and curl up on them. I chased him off and put them on myself and spent the rest of the day randomly petting my own ass. Fuzzy pants! Hee!
I've just about given up on the DSL entirely. I've ordered cable modem installed Wednesday morning, I just hope I can hold out that long!
I played phone tag with my ISP on Friday and finally got in touch with Qwest Saturday morning. An hour later, I'm left with an apologetic moron on the line and the uneasy feeling that my DSL modem is completely hosed. Like, nothing. The frustrating part is that I can connect to it and configure it, and Qwest can see it and somewhere inside it's just crippled and can't make the connection. *headdesk*
So then I played Diablo 2 while Dru went through MC for the first time. I'm so proud of how much he's done and stuff, but I'm sad I wasn't there. And I missed out on all sorts of good stuff for my pally and even *cries* 1 of the 2 sets of Netherwind Pants that dropped off Rag. The ones I've been wanting for eons.
Saturday night was pumpkin carving at John and Meg's. I got a little ambitious and did two - a standard cyclops and one of the little pattern things they had. Next year I want to do something patterny but not standard. Like John's Mondrian that was pretty cool. I dunno. The pumpkin curry soup was awesome, I need to grab Meg's recipe for that.
Sunday I finally made it back to the Title 9 warehouse sale across the street. (I was scared off by the lines on Friday) The shoes I'd sort of wanted were gone, but the comfy fuzzy pants I'd been eyeing were still there. Sooooo nice. I got home and Hobbes tried to climb in the bag and curl up on them. I chased him off and put them on myself and spent the rest of the day randomly petting my own ass. Fuzzy pants! Hee!
I've just about given up on the DSL entirely. I've ordered cable modem installed Wednesday morning, I just hope I can hold out that long!
