Blah, and Moving

[ontology]

Er. Consider me on semi-hiatus, as I am in the process of Moving Into The Rectory. This is an awkward business involving many boxes and general confusion. We must be out of our current house by Thursday, and the internet at the Rectory will be switched to our name by Wednesday, and I am actually using Dad's computer right now (the main one is disconnected!!), and the keyboard is weird and noisy and THERE IS NO ITUNES. *is emo* 

Will possibly update sporadically. The house is very bare, except for the mess, which means that we are spending the next several days making everything look spotless. I am actually too busy and/or mind-foggy to be angsty right now. I am afraid it will all spring up on me suddenly without warning sometime when it is too late to do anything about it. I do need to take a farewell romp though my woods--blast you, out-of-commission camera. Blast you, I say. 

Must go to dinner. Miss all of you and apologies for lack of comments, as I can't manage to nab very much internet time these days.

Comments

[avendya.livejournal.com]

This is why you need a laptop with wireless. Well, other than they're amazing.

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

*emo tears of woe* Yes, that is exactly it. The excessively rich relative I don't know about yet has to die first and leave me a great sum of money. (Well, Dad has a laptop which I am working up the courage to ask him to let me use, since he almost never does, and while it doesn't have wireless, it has the capabilities to get wireless.)

Because omg, I want to sit on the roof outside of my new window and surf the internet. ^-^

[avendya.livejournal.com]

Well, and you need a wireless network, which your neighbors may have - and you're not going to borrow (much) of their bandwidth, right?

You'll need a wireless PCI card or USB adapter - PCI cards are less finicky, but the USB adapter is easier to figure out (not that a PCI is hard). At that point, you need to buy a router, set a wireless network, hook that up to your DSL/cable/fiber, and you're off!

Er, right. Easier said than done.

[ressie-noldo.livejournal.com]

I set up my wireless myself (PCI) - it's not really all that difficult, provided that you have the patience to hang around for a while and pootle with assorted gadgetry. (Of course, I always do.)


Nicking your neighbours' wireless = fine unless they happen to have their network secured with a key. (We do. My neighbours are not too happy about this, because they were hoping to nick. Nyeh.)

[avendya.livejournal.com]

As did I, but Banui would probably prefer not to descend to the depths of geekery we have. (Have I told you about my physics semester project?)

Neither of our neighbors have theirs secured - neither do we, but ours loses signal by either end of the house, so they can't access it. (We'd get a signal booster, except - well, we can use it. They can't. Is there a problem? Nope.)

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that's basically what Dad's friend who got him the laptop said, except I lost him in all the technical stuff and only remembered something about there being a little slot for the card thingummy somewhere along the side, which he pointed out.

Heh. And I would probably be the only one who could figure out how to set anything up. Dad is completely impaired, and I inherited a lot of that (never ask either of us to fix anything, ever; we will break it much, much worse)--I only get by with electronics because somehow my Inherent Teenagerness makes them like me sometimes. Mum is pretty decent with electronics and things, but she Never Has Time. My brother, who will become a computer nerd, eventually (he even wears socks with his sandals!!), is still too young and inexperienced to teach us how everything works, but by the time he is my age he will probably have to do everything, and I will call him from college to have him troubleshoot my stuff. :p