Weekend Without Internet
Went down on Friday; came up a few times for a few minutes, and then went down and stayed that way. The ISP wasn't aware of anything wrong-- that is, Qwest, who actually owns the line, hadn't told them about any scheduled outages-- so they suggested that maybe it was the modem and so J went down and exchanged ours for a new one; but when he plugged that one in, same thing.
The ISP opened a ticked with Qwest, who denies that there's anything wrong but promised to send a technician out anyway. Didn't say when, though.
Perhaps fortunately, the internet's going down coincided with the "Free Premium Channels" teaser, so we were able to watch a lot of movies (and clean house, and crochet, and visit an alpaca farm).
Juno: Cute and amusing, although not as uproariously funny as folks were making it out to be.
We tried to watch Wall-E, but it got screwed up when J copied it to the computer and seemed to be playing only the first 30 seconds or so of each scene and then randomly jumping to another one. Very confusing, but maybe for the best; it would only play in widescreen mode, which made it hard for me to see on the TV. The DVD is back at my parents' house, so maybe we'll watch it later on their bigass TV.
X-Files: I Want to Believe: I liked this one better than the silly "Fight the Future" movie that only barely held any resemblance to X-Files as I knew it. It seemed more like an extended episode than a movie, but it was one of the nice episodes, not part of the silly aliens-conspiring-with-the-government arc that ruined the show for me. I liked that it had a measure of ambiguity about it, instead of OMG ALIENS silliness. It had a few flaws, but held my attention longer than the first movie, as well as longer than many of the episodes.
Ratatouille: J hadn't seen this one yet although I had, but since it's about food I figured he'd like it. He did, and now he wants to make ratatouille-- which I don't believe have a recipe for, and can't look one up since we don't have internet. C'est la vie.
That's really the worst part, not being able to google anything. I don't miss email or Facebook all that much, and I'll just have to get my news from the TV instead, but I've gotten so used to getting an immediate answer on questions that now that I can't, I feel lost and information-deprived.
The ISP opened a ticked with Qwest, who denies that there's anything wrong but promised to send a technician out anyway. Didn't say when, though.
Perhaps fortunately, the internet's going down coincided with the "Free Premium Channels" teaser, so we were able to watch a lot of movies (and clean house, and crochet, and visit an alpaca farm).
Juno: Cute and amusing, although not as uproariously funny as folks were making it out to be.
We tried to watch Wall-E, but it got screwed up when J copied it to the computer and seemed to be playing only the first 30 seconds or so of each scene and then randomly jumping to another one. Very confusing, but maybe for the best; it would only play in widescreen mode, which made it hard for me to see on the TV. The DVD is back at my parents' house, so maybe we'll watch it later on their bigass TV.
X-Files: I Want to Believe: I liked this one better than the silly "Fight the Future" movie that only barely held any resemblance to X-Files as I knew it. It seemed more like an extended episode than a movie, but it was one of the nice episodes, not part of the silly aliens-conspiring-with-the-government arc that ruined the show for me. I liked that it had a measure of ambiguity about it, instead of OMG ALIENS silliness. It had a few flaws, but held my attention longer than the first movie, as well as longer than many of the episodes.
Ratatouille: J hadn't seen this one yet although I had, but since it's about food I figured he'd like it. He did, and now he wants to make ratatouille-- which I don't believe have a recipe for, and can't look one up since we don't have internet. C'est la vie.
That's really the worst part, not being able to google anything. I don't miss email or Facebook all that much, and I'll just have to get my news from the TV instead, but I've gotten so used to getting an immediate answer on questions that now that I can't, I feel lost and information-deprived.