2009 January 22 | Suzanne Earley

Shortly after I wrote my earlier post, I decided to actually attempt to do a little troubleshooting, and fired up my laptop. Network worked just fine on it, so now I don’t know what to think. I’ll have to try moving the laptop to the front counter to see if it is locational, and if it’s not…well, then, I guess we’ll know it’s the computer (which happens to be the new Mac, and…I guess I’m going to learn a lot more about how my Mac works!)

Photos from yesterday and today:

I cheated a tiny bit. I took a number of photos last night, I wasn’t looking through the eye-piece, just holding the camera at about my stomach, snapping pictures. The picture I took that captured the word Lost on the TV — the knitting was blurry. So, I cut the TV screen out of that one, pasted on top of the TV in this picture and VOILA! (I worked on my sweater some last night. Long way to go yet.)

Yes, I’m weird. And geeky. And just the slightest bit addicted to several TV shows right now. I got to choir last night at 7 and informed the choir director that I HAD to be home before 8. I didn’t tell him why, but my Mom knew. Thankfully, she didn’t give me away.

I took about 25 pictures of Katie. She basically ignored me. The lighting in here tonight is terrible, which means the camera takes longer to expose the pictures. Holding it by hand gave me very blurry pictures. I set some books down on the floor, the camera on top and got some great pictures. So there’s your photography tip for today. Actually, two tips. Get down on the same level as your subject and use something to balance your camera (it was sitting off the floor as far as Don Quixote and a Moleskine journal would lift it). Books, tables, chairs, counters all work as stand-ins for tripods.

And on that note, it’s time to stop letting the sleeping dog lie and send her out for her last trip of the day to the great outdoors.

Come on Katie, time to wake up so we can go to bed!

Actually, it’s not so much the computer as it is the network. I don’t know what the problem is exactly, but there is something going on in this building that interferes with my wireless network. Over Christmas break, when the chiropractor next door was closed, everything worked great, but now that they are back, something is interfering again. Only, it doesn’t get better during the afternoons they are closed, so I’m still not sure it is them. Or their equipment.

Some times it’ll work great, and the rest of the time, not so much.

In a previous life, (before children…), it was my job to figure stuff like this out. Actually, it’s still my job, but at that time, the computer networking stuff was what I got paid for. I do not miss those days. I bet a lot of you didn’t even know that about me. Or don’t know that I have a degree in computer science and used to be a Certified Novell Engineer.

Now, I’m just Certifiable.

And, I’m wishing I could call tech support and say “FIX IT.”