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All is quiet on the Eastern-front....a.k.a Dial-up Purgatory....no seriously, it took 12 minutes to load the *update page* here in my journal. You can't imagine how long it took to just GET to IJ....and let's not speak of sending a single email. *face in hands*
I have the internet on almost all day it seems....a few tabs open and loading ~ so that I can bounce from tab A to B to C to D and then start again. I tend to do chores around the house while they are thinking about showing me a letter or pulling up info. I've also flipped through almost an entire year of no less than 3 womens' magazines that my mother's friend dropped off ~ tearing out recipes that will probably never be used, but it gives me something to do while the modem thinks slow thoughts.
Your question is then ~ what am I looking at online?
I am stalking Doll sites/forums....*cough*
ANYway... have no words to describe my time away other than *brain-in-neutral* ville. Beyond the cleaning, feeding and watering of the pigs, horse and geese....I am but a doorman to domestic pets.
Let the cat in.
Let the cat out.
Trip over the dog.
Let the cat in.
Let the cat out.
Repeat.
All. Day. Long.
Teh Bob came up to visit on the long-weekend and was going quietly insane watching the grass grow.
*heh* I know the feeling.
He couldn't STAY on the farm for an entire 24-hour period. He just couldn't do it. He bolted out of here at 10 pm one night (of the one day we didn't go anywhere) to the casino a half-hour away because he needed noise. >D
I WAS tres amused.
Teh Sprog is easily enough entertained with LEGO and his dvds though.
I have a few kimono disassembled and am almost finished Mariko's Secrets and am half-way through 2500 Years of History Unzipped. Beyond that.... nothing to do but count down the days till I'm hauling rocks at home.
....hard to believe I'm looking forward to that. *0__o
ANYway....for all of you whose journals this modem can't find...see you the 11th!
I have the internet on almost all day it seems....a few tabs open and loading ~ so that I can bounce from tab A to B to C to D and then start again. I tend to do chores around the house while they are thinking about showing me a letter or pulling up info. I've also flipped through almost an entire year of no less than 3 womens' magazines that my mother's friend dropped off ~ tearing out recipes that will probably never be used, but it gives me something to do while the modem thinks slow thoughts.
Your question is then ~ what am I looking at online?
I am stalking Doll sites/forums....*cough*
ANYway... have no words to describe my time away other than *brain-in-neutral* ville. Beyond the cleaning, feeding and watering of the pigs, horse and geese....I am but a doorman to domestic pets.
Let the cat in.
Let the cat out.
Trip over the dog.
Let the cat in.
Let the cat out.
Repeat.
All. Day. Long.
Teh Bob came up to visit on the long-weekend and was going quietly insane watching the grass grow.
*heh* I know the feeling.
He couldn't STAY on the farm for an entire 24-hour period. He just couldn't do it. He bolted out of here at 10 pm one night (of the one day we didn't go anywhere) to the casino a half-hour away because he needed noise. >D
I WAS tres amused.
Teh Sprog is easily enough entertained with LEGO and his dvds though.
I have a few kimono disassembled and am almost finished Mariko's Secrets and am half-way through 2500 Years of History Unzipped. Beyond that.... nothing to do but count down the days till I'm hauling rocks at home.
....hard to believe I'm looking forward to that. *0__o
ANYway....for all of you whose journals this modem can't find...see you the 11th!
bored
The sprog is better than the girls but only marginally....
As for myself ~ I find myself sliding into neutral/automode up there ~ and I'm neurotic about my parents place , trying to keep it exactly as they expect it to be ~ that's a result of too many years growing up in their household to ever actually just kick back an not worry about crumbs...
...I mean my father expects me to dry the sink after I wash my hands...EVERY TIME...
it's that bad.....
...so I am on edge whenever my family comes to visit with me when I'm farm sitting ....and I worry about them messing up everything from sinks, toilets, bedstands, stacks of magazines to touching walls or whatever....
*twitch...twitch*
So when I'm there ~ a peaceful place with rules out my wazoo....no agenda and all the time in the world...and I end up doing a lot of nothing. It's all rather like siting in the doctors office for a week or two. Nicer but still...it's not home..
...my mother would just cringe to hear me say that. (o__(o
I imagine many people find the silence unsettling. I know my own family could never take a beach-side holiday because it's "too relaxing".
What doll sites are you stalking?
As for doll sites...Den of Angels, 13doll forum (for any kind of doll and not stuck on only one type) and a Toronto based BJD doll forum for Canucks. It was a learning experience I tell ya ....oh the slippery slope .....
Your lack of decent speed internet would do me in, not the lack of noise :p
Missed seeing your posts while you've been on the farm. I've also missed an occassional email from your direction with your internet difficulties. *hugs*
Am waiting to post a few downloads for when you're back. ^^
He's missing Rach like crazy (she's in Spain/Portugal for 3 weeks)...Ali is too busy working to argue, and Wil and I are at the farm ~ so he's at home alone with his thoughts and thinking how awful it is and getting majorly pouty and figiting so he comes up to the farm to find me neurotic about anyone messing with my parents stuff ~ Wil quietly busy with his lego (although they both happily played baseball for a bit) ...and a LOT of rain (my gods it's rained a lot this year) so no internet and snow on the tv because the storms are screwing up reception and....oh he was wiggling out of his skin. *chuckles*
The lack of decent internet was driving me slightly nuts but it did force me to sit and do some work I set out for myself (kimono wise) but I become distinctly UNcreative up there. My brain slides into neutral and I go into troll mode. ARGH.
BUT I'm back....*hugs cable and Tameiki*
I didn't realize HOW slow the internets were up there until I plugged in here. Of course now I'm running in 14 directions at the same time so I don't have ALL THE FREAKING TIME IN THE WORLD to spend online.
...yeah feast or famine....*head desk*
Oh man....the email. I'd PLUG IN the computer and phone line (thunderstorms every day) and then wait...omg....it reminded me of the good ole days when the farm was on a party line!!!
Mind you one has to unplug the pc (imac) when not in use.... I called my dad yesterday and they'd lost a phone. Literally. The house was hit by lightning and blew one of them right off the wall into a bazillion pieces. @__@ Literally melted the plastic on the wires. >(
Yeah country living ~ shudders to think what would have happened to the computer *0__0!!
OH and THANK-YOU so VERY MUCH for the next volume of Ai no Kusabi *XOXOXOXOoXOOXO*
Welcome back! I'm so glad to see you have access to the internet at a decent speed so you can be online again. Would've replied to this yesterday, but when I got home last night and saw you'd replied, my internet connection was down and they took forever to get it back up.
Thought you might like the next volume of the Ai no Kusabi novel. Good to know I made the right call. After how volume 2 dragged on I was beginning to wonder what was so great about it. Volume 3 restored my confidence in the storyline :)
Other than the fried phone is everything else okay for your parents? That must've been one heck of a lightning strike to blow the phone right off the wall!
All I need is a four-wheeler and a snake hook. Pillowcases are optional, but they allow me to keep my shirt on instead of using it for a snake-bag.
The Dial-Up Land is a god-awful place to be stranded though and I feel your pain. *hugs*
Ah dial-up land. MEIN GOD it was like being trapped in the mid-90s with no way out but through a straw. I got home and clicked into Featherfall (and DoA, TDAF, 13dolls etc) and it was A MIRACLE...holy crapoly I was so used to leaving the room to do other things while pages loaded that I almost cried with happiness.
Never mind warm puppies. Happiness is blazing fast cable internet...or at least something that moves faster than a speeding turtle.
*hugs cable*
Your metaphor is wonderful. I laughed soo hard. xDDD And my girl did too, because I had to share (the poor girl has only been out of dial-up land for a few years).
You even say 'holy crapoly.' You are so full of awesome.
Welcome back! <3
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...no...no I had not seen that.
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I think my brain is officially broken.
*wanders off wondering wtf they mean about without the surgery........no seriously that weirded me out more than the contacts themselves *0__o!??!?!??!
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