Kelly's Quotidian

I didn’t really make fire. I was speaking metaphorically:-) I recently acquired a laptop from my wheeling and dealing 11 year old niece. Little shit actually negotiated price with me! One of the reasons I wanted a new laptop is because my antiquated POS PC took, and I’m not kidding, 4 minutes to load web pages. Loading apps and any other activity was like watching water boil on a cold day:-( I loaded spybot on it and found that it was full of all kinds of crap, which I promptly destroyed…all to no avail. Still slow as crap-old lady driving on a one lane road your late for work slow. And so I decided to procure my niece’s utterly neglected iBookG4 (a hand-me-down from her father).

My anticipated joy at fast surfing and multiple app hopping was barely contained as I entered my domicile. I immediately tried to connect to my wireless router-a hit and miss affair for many a laptop who have come to Kelly land. I knew this.  And of course I was teased bt the fact that my new little friend could “see” my wireless network, but I kept getting the message “connection failed”. I imagined a little password in a long-jump competition wearing its little sneakers, running and jumping its little heart out; only to hit the bar and fall in disappointment. I loaded up the old tank to see if I could wireless through it…yes. Fuck. So then I figured that my router was a discriminating bastard who didn’t like Macs. I was right. I left the problem alone. For a day.

Next day, not to be deterred…I decided to force my asshole router to play nice-I manually reconfigured it using the start-up disc. No success. Then I tried to do so with my Mac mini. [Yes, I even have a REALLY old computer with linux loaded on it-why I have all this computing power, I'm not sure. Perhaps I'll find some nefarious deed in which to engage my little network...someday...but not with out a fucking router.]

Mac mini denied. The f#%^* set up disc only works on PC’s. At this point I figured my router wasn’t compatible with Macs, I was almost deterred. Almost. I went to bed. Hours wasted, the meaning of life in question.

The day of revelations began when I thought to google *****routers and macs. A bagillion links came up. Others had been in my hell. And they took notes:-) This is when I first learned that I could remotely hack into my bitchy little router from a web page. Holy crap. So I typed in the recommended IP address and found myself in a webpage, configuring my wireless router from my MacMini. The grin on my face burned calories. It worked, I was able to log in wirelessly from the mini-weeeeeee! Then the moment of truth came…I busted out the wee one. Found the router, entered the login…”connection failed”. Son of a bitch. I almost cried, but instead I went to bed.

Day 3. I’m alone and feel like I’ll never be saved:-) I go to my trusty friend google. I enter the taunting error message and I come to see the words hexadecimal passwords…I come to find that my new little laptop is a fickle bitch who needs $ before her passwords. Holy crap. Remote configurations happen ONE more time. The moment of truth arrives…

And a gmail login page loads.

One of the proudest moments of my life.

I MADE FIRE!!!!!

I just finished my first outdoor run post foot surgery. It was a success. I forgot about the redunculous heat though. Before the surgery I had been running 2 to 3 a week on the treadmill indoors for a few months. I was trying to take it easy on my feet. I just didn’ t realize I was taking it easy on the rest of my body. I’m happy to say I’m fairly heat tolerant, but that shit is menacing. I’m very thankfull for my tiny success today and wanted to give my shout-out of appreication in writing:-) I think it’s hard to truly appreciate any gift in life untill you’ve suffered its loss. Yeah for now!