i typed up this post after my exciting bus ride across huntsville to get to the MHC the day my net connection flat lined.
8hrs! that’s how many hours of my day a 30min appt took.>_< & that isn’t counting the our i spent at the library. i had a 12:30pm appt at MHC & had to ride the bus. it took me 3 buses to get there & of course the same 3 to get back, and they all run on an hourly cycle.
i left the house at 9:2?am & got back about 6:10pm. i had to wait just a few mins for the first bus this morning but i’m one of the first stops so i had to ride it all over town to get to the transfer station. i was hungry but there is nothing near the transfer station & only a soda machine, no snacks. which doesn’t make sense, but neither does the fact that the bathrooms are outside. i don’t get that. they are built into the indoor waiting area, and it seems like it would have been just as easy to put the doors inside the building as outside, but whatever. i then had a 45min layover for the 2nd bus, then a 30min layover for the third. thankfully, the third layover was at a mall with build-a-bear, so i went in & got an appl & some free food court samples on the way there & had lunch on the way back.
i got there 30mins early for my appt. i thought it was an hour appt, & by the time i realized it ended at 1pm, not 1:30pm, i had pissed around a few mins & missed the bus by 1min. fudge! i had to wait for an hour for the next one, but i got some work done devoloping my next few chapters some more. on the way back i had the 30min mall stop, then to the library for an hour, where i put in my appl for the temp clerk position (cross your fingers!), then from the library i waited a few mins for the bus (i got there in plenty of time, & it ran 5mins late:~p), & since the library was it’s first stop, i had to ride it around town, but it was on a relatively short loop, hurray! i noticed on the schedule we were scheduled to arrive at the transfer station just 3mins after the next, & final, bus i needed was scheduled to depart, so 3mins before the other bus was supposed to leave we were almost back to the transfer station. i had heard a few drivers calling other buses to let them know they were coming in & had a passenger who wanted to catch their bus, and ask them to wait, so i decided to do the same. sadly, the driver told me that bus had already left (@ 4:45pm! that’s 3mins early!). when we got to the station, i checked my cell by the big clock outside where the buses park, which also tells the temp btw, just so you know, & they were the same. that bus driver deserted me!! so i had to sit for another hour waiting on the next one. then i was glad to be one of the first stops & when i got off it was dark & cold, & i walked a half mile to the house.
my day is in now way improved by the fact that i’ve lost my net connection for some reason. all i know, is i had an update with an auto restart sometime this morning while i was sleeping, and when i woke up the computer seemed hung betweeon off and on. the tower power light was on, but i couldn’t wake it. so i went for the hard reboot & my tower started screaming at me! i had know idea what was happening. they speakers weren’t even on, so it was coming from the unit itself. it didn’t even stop when i pulled the power. i ended up unplugging everything from it & even flipping the surge protector. it eventually stopped by i have no more idea why it stopped than i did why it started, though it did stop when i unplugged the last cords from it, which were the USBs, mouse & wireless network adapter thing. so maybe it has something to do with why my net is now out? or maybe i got some security/firewall update that doesn’t mesh with the settings. all i know is my tower sounded like it was either on fire or i was trying to steal it, or both at the same time. but it was not hot, no smoking or smells. i don’t know. it works fine now though other than no net access. i’m hoping it will right itself. if not, i’ll deal with it when i’m back from TD09. tonight, i’m too tired to care, & it likely means dealing with e. & this would not be the first time he’s cut my access to the network for some petty reason.
ok, i’m done. i came in & typed this up in notepad just so i could truly capture my mood and thoughts at the time. i knew you would all want the fresh perspective.
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