Fingers Crossed

So two months ago I went to America with the intention of blogging about it.  No sooner did I get there than I started having some fairly serious internet trouble and my computer died.  When I finally had the right conditions I decided to put off posting much about the trip until I got home where I was sure of not having issues, only to be have the internet back home decide to act up.

The internet finally got itself working again just before the weekend but I got fairly bogged down in uni work, a trend that doesn't look like it is going to change in the near future, but I've decided to definitely focus on the blog - at least to break up the study.

I will begin posting about my trip tomorrow, hoping beyond hope that this apparent curse is done with me.  If you don't hear from my for a month or so you can safely assume that I've been struck by lightning or had my computer spontaneously combust in an attempt by the universe at large to prevent my posting about the trip.

Also, because I was supposed to be on a cultural exchange I made sure to record some kind of culture shock each day, sometimes they are funny and sometimes they are naive, but always are they born from genuine ignorance and not intended to be discriminatory in any way.

I'm not dead, but my laptop is.

Sorry I haven't posted, and sorry in advance for the limited, possibly lack of, posting that will occur during my trip in the USA, I took a computer so I could let you all know how I'm doing but it does not want to pick up wifi anywhere in either Hawaii or Washington and when I got it looked at it stopped booting up at all.

I am currently on the terrible computer in the lobby of the hotel I am staying at and it is terrible so don't expect me to use it much.  I also don't know if any of the other hotels even have a desktop in their lobbies so chances are I won't be getting any information about this trip up here until I get home.

Anyway, I have now blogged from the other side of the planet, so that's done.  I promise to try and post again from here, but we'll have to see if I have time, the schedule is pretty busy.  Suffice to say for now that I'm having a ball and am loving the States.

Have fun and stay tuned because normal broadcasts will resume in February, if not before.

Defragged: the consequences

So two days ago I mentioned on here that I defragged my computer and it was running so very much faster.  I also mentioned that this meant that a lot of stuff that I was having trouble doing online was now possible for me to do but that my family were already giving me a hard time about not using too much internet.

Well it is two days later and the internet has slowed right down to the point that animated gifs are too challenging for it (seriously pages that include even one are refusing to load at all).  So of course now my family are telling me that I shouldn't have used so much internet.  The only problem with this?  I HAVE BEEN AT WORK BOTH THOSE DAYS.  At most I have watched fifteen minutes of YouTube in that time, meanwhile certain other members of the family have been lounging on the couch for two days straight doing nothing but using up internet.

Sorry, I know I've had a couple of negative posts just lately and it feels to me like I'm just whining in a public space - and at Christmas too.  I promise to try and keep the rest of the posts this year positive.  I'll even get this whole positive thing started now by pointing out that this post has made me feel good: I've referenced a previous post for the first time, I'm starting to feel like a real blogger or something!  It's the little things, you know?

Defragged

I hate defragging my computer.  It takes for-freaking-ever and, because my computer is a bit stupid, if I leave it defragging for more than ten minutes without moving the mouse it decides to freeze up and make me restart, which is a very effective way of making sure I can't do anything else during the time.

Four and a half hours of not doing anything other than jiggle the mouse occasionally is worth it though, because now it's like warp speed internet!  YAY!  You just don't realise how slow it has become until suddenly its about twice as fast and you're left wondering how you managed at all.

No more making a cuppa while I wait for an image heavy page to load.

The other side of this is that I'm already getting told not to use too much internet because everyone else in the house wants to use it too.  This could just be because I've been crowing about the speed a little lot but seriously, give me like a day, maybe, before getting in a twist about it would you?

Well that's it for today, I'm off to stream videos or something equally fast.