Just a song before I go....

[vanillafluffy]

I'm at the library, getting my 'net fix. They've changed their system within the last few weeks---now one inputs their library card number to log in, and it responds by launching a little timer to count down one's remaining time (from one hour).

There's nothing I can do about the internet situation until I get this week's check. (Which is already gone, if I'm not mistaken. Half of it is toward the cable bill, another chunk to FPL, the water bill and I *have* to get gas, it's down to the sputter point. (My car has idiocyncrasies, including the fact that when the gas gauge gets below half a tank, it starts sputtering and trying to stall when braking.)

I just got a warning saying I have ten minutes remaining. I feel like Castiel, standing by the side of the road, saying, "The voice says I only have a few minutes left!"

Oh look! It gave me a 20 minute extension! Wasn't that nice of it? Carpe carp! Seize the fish! I'll take it if I can get it, that's for sure.

Okay, so, I'm *trying* to work on my crossover exchange fic. It's due December 4th, which is approaching with frightening rapidity. Barely three weeks away! Meaning I need to really buckle down, as I have a fairly complex idea in mind.

I'm going to be haunting the mailbox Friday morning, so I can snatch up my check and run to pay the cable bill. Not having internet capability is like losing a sense, almost. My instinctive reaction to something is, okay, I'll look that up---and I can't. No mail, no LJ, no Pit of Voles, no Wikipedia, no IMDb, no YouTube...no fun.

Okay, I'll be back when I can. Don't be strangers!

(Or at least not any stranger than you already are.)

Comments

[ang5fam.livejournal.com]

Sounds like my life- I don't ever see my check- it is direct deposited and then the powers that I owe suck out their share and pronto, I am broke again!

I am even willing to sell my laptop at a discounted price just to put a few dollars in my account.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

How much? Just in case I run across anybody in need of a laptop?

[ang5fam.livejournal.com]

I am asking $350 but will take $300- has brand new hard drive with 5 year warranty....

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

That let me out! I can't even come up with $50 to get my laptop fixed.

[ang5fam.livejournal.com]

I understand- I'd like to hang on to it but need the cash more. I can always get a new laptop when we are back in the chips..if we are ever back in the chips!

[socialhermit.livejournal.com]

As someone who just spent the last 2+ weeks without cable TV or internet, you have my utmost sympathy. I felt so disconnected - literally - it was driving me crazy!

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

It's like losing a thumb. Or depth perception. Or something. Geez, I'm so used to using the Net a zillion times a day that this is really making me nucking futz.

[socialhermit.livejournal.com]

It's like losing a thumb. Or depth perception. Or something.

Yes! I can always count on you to describe it so perfectly. Exactly that.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

*borrowing Jack Sparrow's nod to his vocation* Writer.

[starhawk2005.livejournal.com]

(Or at least not any stranger than you already are.)

LOL, no comment! ;)

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Is there a way to buy you some on-line time...like a gift-card or something?

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I wish. Alas, it's not like a prepaid cell phone. I have a busted laptop with a wireless card, but that's going to cost $50 for a new keyboard. I *will* be back on before that happens.