GAAAAAAAH!!

[katiefoolery]

So, I had a plan and it went like this:

• get on board train on Thursday morning


• connect to my mobile broadband


• finish off LJ entry and post it


• optional – read email


• vital – download copy of my writer’s latest chapter for beta-ing

It was a good plan with solid fundamentals and I approved highly of it.

Unfortunately, it actually went like this:

• get on board train on Thursday morning (Yes! Off to a good start!)


• fail to connect to my mobile broadband (Less good...)


• try connecting with modem in each of my three usb ports (Starting to become damned annoying...)


• fail to connect (...)


• end up being told that there’s no SIM or USIM in my modem, which is news to the USIM inside my modem (*begin swearing now*)


• fume over inability to finish off LJ entry and post it


• luckily discover that I downloaded my writer’s latest chapter already


• contemplate throwing mobile broadband modem to the floor and crushing it mercilessly

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

Yes. Yes, I think that sums it up nicely.

GAH.

There were also plans to spend time with the boy and the Sonia (who live next door to the parents for now), but it turns out they were in Melbourne for the exact same days I was in Beechworth.

I’m told it was a complete coincidence.

Really.

And then there was the set of coloured lights, which I helped the Da put up along the back verandah... only to be told they actually belonged on one of the trees out the front.

So we re-located it to one of the trees out the front... only to find out that it actually belongs on the roofline around the side of the house. I, however, am not convinced. I think it looks fine on that tree. I think the other set of lights will look every bit as fine on the roofline. I think, in short, there is no damn point in un-doing all of the work of putting the stupid lights on the stupid tree just so we can put them on the stupid roofline instead.

Christmas lights: they look pretty, it’s just in everyone’s interests to have nothing to do with putting them up.

In closing, please accept this photo I took on Wednesday afternoon. It records an historic event: petrol under one dollar a litre. Truly a moment in history...

Comments

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, I would kill for gas that's under a dollar.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It didn't last for very long. And you needed to have a voucher for it. But we buy petrol by the litre - don't you get it by the gallon there?

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. I forgot about that.


hahahah you guys are still getting screwed compared to us!

[naelany.livejournal.com]

Ew, bad modem, no donut!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I shall eat its doughnut right in front of it!

[naelany.livejournal.com]

That's showing it!

[morbane.livejournal.com]

That is a wonderful icon for conveying Gahh.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It really is perfect, isn't it? There's absolutely no need for words whatsoever.

[moonlitpromise.livejournal.com]

That all sucks. But the gas prices are good. :D

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Yeah, quite frustrating. :| And the prices didn't last, unfortunately.