Do you Chat?

I can remember when I was in high school in the mid 90′s and the Internet was really jsut getting big.  Internet chat rooms were so popular.  I hung out in one Internet chat room after another.  Then we really didn’t worry as much about the safety issues and child predators. This was still unknown territory, inexperienced.  My sister actually met her husband in one of these chat rooms.  We didn’t know what we had to fear back then, and I look back now and am so glad that the two of them worked out and he wasn’t one of those “scary people” we sooned learned sometimes existed on the other end of that Internet connection.  From those basic chat rooms, the Internet has come so far.

Now we have so many different online matchmaking sites. It seems like everytime I turn on the tv and pay any attention to the commercials, I always hear of a site that could match me up with the perfect man.  Lately I’ve heard an advertisement on the radio of a dating/matchmaking site that is just for people in my area.   And today what do I discover but a site that is just for horse lovers to meet up and be matched together called Equestrian Cupid.  What are the odds?  I never knew such a thing existed, and it even has a FREE sign-up.  Now personally I’m not much into horses, but the idea of such a specialized site kind of appealed to me.

If there was a site out there for matchmaking workaholics or Cowboy fans or teachers or those that love to read….now those sites I might just find someone for me.  I’ve actually always been kind of frightened by the online matchmakikng sites, but I’m not sure how I feed about these customized ones.  If people were honest and only those who genuinely love  horses (or whatever type of site it is), it might really be a great way to find a lifetime friend.

Coming to You….

live from home!!  Yes, you are reading correctly. My Internet has FINALLY been restored!  Yes…that’s right.  My Internet is back!  It’s back.  After almost a month of crappy and no service, I’m up and going again.

What to Do?

I’ve got to buy a new DirecTV box for my bedroom…I’m not sure, but I guess whatever the sensor is that detects a remote has died in my box.  I’ve tried every remote in the house and none of them will change the channel anymore. So I’ve got a choice of HDTV receiver or a DVR receiver.  Our TVs are capable, but I’ve just never upgraded to HDTV. I mean I’m happy with what I have, but I KNOW I like recording stuff.  So I’m browsing the directv site as I try to catch up on blogging and email while I’m here at Dad’s bumming his Internet connection trying to decide.  Advice?

An End In Sight

Yea!  Well it’s still a little sad, but there is an end in sight to my problems. The technician FINALLY made it to the house Friday to figure out what was wrong. As it turns out as a long term customer, my equipment was so old they no longer carry parts to fix it.  Oh yea!  For my loyalty do I get a new system for free or anything? Of course not, but at least my friendly techician did tell me that I would be better off (financially) to actually cancel my entire account and then opening a new one.  (Isn’t that the most retarded thing?) So I did so and he will be back to set me up with new equipment as a new customer on Thursday.  So I guess I will be stuck to heading to the local coffee franchises for a few more days to bum off their free Internet, but soon I’ll be back in the blogosphere going strong.  I miss everyone!

A Day In The Life

Of my laptop bag.  My laptop bag is actually pretty lucky compared to other laptop bags.  It doesn’t take a real beating most of the time.  Each morning I login and check my email and blog as the girls finish getting ready.  After that, my computer is placed in my laptop bag and then in the car where we travel a whole 8 miles to work.  Then I unload my things and take them to my classroom.  After that my laptop comes out and goes on my desk for the day. My laptop bag goes in the corner behind my desk to be ignored until it’s time to go home.  Then I pack up my laptop and papers to grade in my laptop bag and travel those eight miles back home.

The exceptions? Traveling. Whether we be traveling to a debate meet on Saturdays where it’s thrown in the school van with all the students’ bags or long distance family traveling where it’s crammed in a trunk in extreme hot and cold conditions and then taken on an airplane to be stored in a hotel room somewhere – or a series of hotels.  This is when my laptop bags takes a beating and most prove itself durable.