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Life without internet for a while
Jan. 20th, 2012 03:04 pmLast night we heard a funny slithering noise, and a few minutes later noticed our DSL modem's light had gone red and we couldn't get to the internet. It was easily half an hour after that that it occurred to me to try the phone and I found we had no dial tone.
This morning I called AT&T (on my pay-go cell phone), got a recording, and set up a repair request for our line, about 7:00 am. No DSL before I left for recording. No DSL when I came home from recording. DSL finally came back about 2:30 pm.
It's really *odd* to be so disconnected from the internet, you know? Several times I wanted to do things with my iPod: stream NPR, get the weather forecast, find an app for secure storage of passwords, and I couldn't because the wifi only works when the DSL does.
My Kindle was my only point of contact, and that only because I got the 3G Kindle Keyboard version, which will surf the web over the 3G. It's slow and it's clunky, and the screen is tiny and greyscale, which feels restrictive, but it works, and I read LJ that way this morning. Note that the newer Kindles won't do this. There's a reason why I got the KK even though it was bigger and less shiny than the Kindle Touch.
But the internet is back now. Welcome back--I missed you! And I think recording went reasonably well despite my being pretty doggone unprepared. And if it didn't, the only thing I wasted was my time, so not that big a deal. Getting back into the musical swing is a bit harder than I expected.
But my new song got a chorus yesterday that I think adds a lot and comes across a little differently after each verse adds another bit of context, which pleases me very much. Now I just need to enter it in PrintMusic. Does anybody know how to make PrintMusic swing the rhythm if you don't have a midi instrument to hook up? I tried going to the MIDI menu as the manual says, but the Swing option is greyed out.
This morning I called AT&T (on my pay-go cell phone), got a recording, and set up a repair request for our line, about 7:00 am. No DSL before I left for recording. No DSL when I came home from recording. DSL finally came back about 2:30 pm.
It's really *odd* to be so disconnected from the internet, you know? Several times I wanted to do things with my iPod: stream NPR, get the weather forecast, find an app for secure storage of passwords, and I couldn't because the wifi only works when the DSL does.
My Kindle was my only point of contact, and that only because I got the 3G Kindle Keyboard version, which will surf the web over the 3G. It's slow and it's clunky, and the screen is tiny and greyscale, which feels restrictive, but it works, and I read LJ that way this morning. Note that the newer Kindles won't do this. There's a reason why I got the KK even though it was bigger and less shiny than the Kindle Touch.
But the internet is back now. Welcome back--I missed you! And I think recording went reasonably well despite my being pretty doggone unprepared. And if it didn't, the only thing I wasted was my time, so not that big a deal. Getting back into the musical swing is a bit harder than I expected.
But my new song got a chorus yesterday that I think adds a lot and comes across a little differently after each verse adds another bit of context, which pleases me very much. Now I just need to enter it in PrintMusic. Does anybody know how to make PrintMusic swing the rhythm if you don't have a midi instrument to hook up? I tried going to the MIDI menu as the manual says, but the Swing option is greyed out.
