Balls and Walnuts
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It’s alive!
We have internet access, little thanks to AT&T. The start-up software kept gagging and it seemed like we would have to call AT&T tech support — *shiver*. Then Karen had the bright idea to click on Firefox and voila, we have access. It’s a mystery what the AT&T software was trying to do.
So we’re back, hooked into the ‘net, and yes indeed it’s an important thing. I think we first went online back in ’93 or ’94, and I can remember yucking it up over Mirsky’s Worst of the Web, Slutboy’s Home Page, Ninevolt’s HatePage, and a lot of other relics. Back then, the internet was a source of entertainment rather than information. Few businesses had an online presence. The Yellow Pages still mattered, and we needed paper maps to find our way around a new town.
Our GPS crashed two days ago, so without the GPS and the internet we’ve been limping around Bakersfield like somnambulists. The GPS is still down, but of the two, the ‘net is more important.
Work starts Monday, a solid week of orientation. Wish me luck 🙂
D.
woohoo! regular doug again (maybe)!
good luck with teh new workz 🙂
Orientation is good for the soul. Like purgatory.
thanks, Shaina!
Dean, sure that isn’t hell? I mean, judging from the average temperature around here, it’s hard to draw any other conclusion . . .
I’m glad things are getting back to normal for you. I would be very lost and bored without internet access.
Yes, what did we do in the days before internet . . . played Scrabble, maybe?