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Latest System Update
Okay, here's the bad news so far.
After the system crashed totally back home, I found myself with an Internet connection and nothing to use it on. Basically, I have no computer at the moment. I'm using the public terminals in the library, and getting in two hours a day until I can sort myself out with repairs / upgrades / whatever I can afford.
I haven't been able to get around to doing any repairs / upgrades / whatever, because I have recently been suffering from incredibly painful ear problems. Basically, I had to have them syringed today: a procedure which has only produced partial success. I go back again Friday to complete this procedure, or to arrange for my referral to the local ENT department. Until then, I really can't hear a bloody thing, and that is of far greater importance to me than getting back online at home.
Finally, while I do have a desperate plan to fix up my system, and get something back up and running, I won't be going back online back at my folks' for at least three good reasons.
1. They are in the process of disconnecting my Tiscali ISP account, and I don't blame them: they've got nothing to connect to online at all, and I'm getting sick of my father, who's really starting to get on my last nerve with his constant sniping and bitching - but that's enough about him, I'm saving up a good and solid riposte for him to spoil his day, just you wait and see, ranting about phone bills of £7 a month being "too fucking much" (yeah, right!), so no more connecting is going to be possible from home;
2. I wouldn't connect online to Tiscali now if they paid me my weight's worth in heroin to do so, because that ISP has given me no end of grief, since it's been nothing but viruses, viruses, viruses sent directly down the phone line to my computer, every single bastard minute I've been online with them;
3. If and when I do get an upgraded system going and running, it won't be at my folks' place any more. It'll be at my flat, on my phone line (which hopefully nobody will find out about, because I'm going ex directory and telling nobody about it). It'll be expensive to run, but at least I'll be able to go online on my own time, and be beholden to no bastard.
However, until I do manage to come back online from a domestic computer ... no more evening chats with anybody. I'll blog on occasion, and if you need me, you can contact me on my Yahoo Mail account, but it looks as if I'm off the IM circuit more or less for the long haul, everyone.
Gaah. I was supposed to have been working on my assignment for this Friday's class, but I've been too ill with my ears still ringing from the syringing, and the fact that the library's put its air conditioning on cold directly overhead. It is fucking freezing.
After the system crashed totally back home, I found myself with an Internet connection and nothing to use it on. Basically, I have no computer at the moment. I'm using the public terminals in the library, and getting in two hours a day until I can sort myself out with repairs / upgrades / whatever I can afford.
I haven't been able to get around to doing any repairs / upgrades / whatever, because I have recently been suffering from incredibly painful ear problems. Basically, I had to have them syringed today: a procedure which has only produced partial success. I go back again Friday to complete this procedure, or to arrange for my referral to the local ENT department. Until then, I really can't hear a bloody thing, and that is of far greater importance to me than getting back online at home.
Finally, while I do have a desperate plan to fix up my system, and get something back up and running, I won't be going back online back at my folks' for at least three good reasons.
1. They are in the process of disconnecting my Tiscali ISP account, and I don't blame them: they've got nothing to connect to online at all, and I'm getting sick of my father, who's really starting to get on my last nerve with his constant sniping and bitching - but that's enough about him, I'm saving up a good and solid riposte for him to spoil his day, just you wait and see, ranting about phone bills of £7 a month being "too fucking much" (yeah, right!), so no more connecting is going to be possible from home;
2. I wouldn't connect online to Tiscali now if they paid me my weight's worth in heroin to do so, because that ISP has given me no end of grief, since it's been nothing but viruses, viruses, viruses sent directly down the phone line to my computer, every single bastard minute I've been online with them;
3. If and when I do get an upgraded system going and running, it won't be at my folks' place any more. It'll be at my flat, on my phone line (which hopefully nobody will find out about, because I'm going ex directory and telling nobody about it). It'll be expensive to run, but at least I'll be able to go online on my own time, and be beholden to no bastard.
However, until I do manage to come back online from a domestic computer ... no more evening chats with anybody. I'll blog on occasion, and if you need me, you can contact me on my Yahoo Mail account, but it looks as if I'm off the IM circuit more or less for the long haul, everyone.
Gaah. I was supposed to have been working on my assignment for this Friday's class, but I've been too ill with my ears still ringing from the syringing, and the fact that the library's put its air conditioning on cold directly overhead. It is fucking freezing.
Damn...