Tuesday 21 December 2004

Pic of the day: The rats of Morrowind are getting a bit long in the tooth these days. But they are all I have now.

The day ADSL broke

Was home sick today, second day in a row. When I was not sleeping, I totally played DAoC and watched Mamotte Shugogetten. Well, it beats the spending fad, although I am not sure that one is expired yet. It is more like a lack of opportunity ... and even that barely. I was only a few clicks away from buying a boxed DVD set from America. I would have to change one of my computers to Region 1 to view it. In Windows XP at least it seems this can be done from the properties menu, but you can't change back and forth. Not sure if you have an external DVD player if you can have both.

With the night, the wind picked up and became a storm. A bit before midnight the power went out for a few seconds. When it came back up, my ADSL was dead. I have tried with different computers and DSL "modems" (that's what they are called here, they are really more like routers). Eventually I called customer service, and they will fix it in a few days. Yeah, after Christmas most likely. Happy holidays.

Could it be a hint from someone up there that no, you are NOT going to just try out EverQuest II for a month? ^_^* At least it beats going to hospital, as I did with EQ 1. Of course, that might happen too. I've not been feeling too well. I guess each day I am in town while my fad lasts, the slow drip of temptation erodes my resistance to buying the game. Must... have... pretty... rats... ^!^