Since moving into my new apartment things have been a mess.
I refused to rent a U-Haul like I had promised myself I would do after the last time I moved myself in 42 trips with my family’s minivan. Somehow I thought that moving in stages would make my life better. It doesn’t.
Now I’ve managed to move in the basics of survival: a bed, some clothes, a dresser and basic furniture. I’m capable of going to work, sleeping and eating. Seems complete, no?
Except I’m missing the one basic survival tool that all engineers require: the interwebs. Due to no fault of my own, Time Warner (send hatemail here) has decided that I am unworthy to receive their Digital Cable and Internet before the 12th of January. What do people do when there is no internet?
If their like me they mostly crawl into a dark corner of their apartment and sob.
What I’ve found, however, is that most people are not like me. Instead, they find means of entertaining themselves that don’t require electricity or the internet.
Does that thought give you shivers too?
I’ve found myself able to entertain myself with the following activities in lieu of having my tube connected to the greater series of tubes:
- Check my DS and Laptop for an unsecured wireless access point in my building.
- Give up on stealing internets from the neighbors and playing Planet Puzzle League.
- Unpack the 2 foot thick layer of crap in my dining room.
- Recheck the area for unsecured wireless.
- Cry.
- Play with the disturbing collection of Nerf armaments I’ve amassed.
- Visit people under the pretense of friendship but with the underlying motive of checking email.
- Remember why broadcast TV is irritating (That’s not interpretive dance that’s me trying to situate myself so that I don’t interfere with reception my antennae are getting).
