The Internet is conspiring against me

Whom would the internet conspire with eludes me, possibly the three sisters of Fait, who knows. All I do know is that for the last week and a half no matter where I am it seems the internet is not cooperating with me. At home it drops every 5 minutes and 40 seconds or so. So regular it is weird. When I talk to the wife I had to redial Skype 5 or 6 times for each conversation. The internet at home has also been slower than usual. Well I wouldn’t think much of it if it was just that it wasn’t working at home, but it doesn’t seem to work for me anywhere else. At my client I have no access on my personal laptop because I am waiting on security paper work to be processed. And just tonight in the hotel the hotel internet went down in the middle of my nightly call with the wife.. All I can say is arrrrrrggggggggg. To quote Charlie Brown.

So I am left to assume that the gods of the interweb are upset with me for some reason and have conspired to keep me from having the full and un-molested use of what many of my generation (and those younger) feel is a critical utility. So it frustrates me. And then frustrates me some more. But tomorrow there is at least a little relief. I will finally get my laptop certified for use on the client network. I think I will also finally get around to calling Qwest (again with the arrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggg) to have them come and look at the phone line coming into my house. But alas at the hotel there is nothing I can do. I had an aircard for a few weeks but returned it when I found my next assignment is in an area with incredibly expensive roaming rates, so it seemed ridiculous to pay $50 a month for 10 months for something I would not be able to use soon.

One of the worst parts about having internet failure is some times I can’t even call for help because as would happen I have no phone book. So if there is no internet I can not even look up the repair number. I will have to remember to put it in my contact list on my cell phone. Well I guess I will now cross my fingers that the connection last long enough for this post to be updated!