All has been going pretty well the last few days / nights / week I must admit. Yesterday had been a pretty successful day especially and I had just received a bit of good news regarding future work placements (TBA) among other kewl things that were going on. I love how my frame of mind changes into all things positive (ie. don’t give a sh!t) when I’m so close to R&R)
Then it all kicked off. An electrical storm from hell. I looked out the window of my little plastic apartment block only to be blinded by a completely unexpected bolt of lightning in my face. I swear it was like something from He-Man when Castle Greyskull gets nailed by that lighting that He-Man throws around from his sword hitting everything in sight including his poor little cat!
Wow I thought. Wow indeed. When the green spots had subsided slightly I looked back at my laptop and my Internet Explorer flashed up, “Page cannot be displayed”. My heart sunk. It’s amazing how religious I get when it kicks off like this. “Dear Lord please don’t have hit my satellite dish with your fury. I know who you are looking for but he is about 70 meters NE of the dish in accommodation block D, 6th floor, room 66. Please don’t tell that heathen bastard I dobbed him in cos if you miss again I still have to work with him tomorrow. Thanks. Now can you bring my network back when you are done?”
I waited and waited for the fury to subside. It did eventually about 2-3 hours later. I checked the connection. Dead. Hmmmm. I phoned the service provider who confirmed extreme weather in the area. I could have told them that but I wasn’t all that excited about getting into an argument at 3am. You see I must be in a better frame of mind.
I woke up at 6am to beat the rush into the office. I get in. Network still dead! That kinda set the tone for the day. Not a great start!
Cut a long story short (yeah right) I had to work for my salary today. All’s well that ends well I guess. If it hadn’t you wouldn’t be reading this now. On the plus side, if it was still down, I might have been on that jet plane outa here a little sooner than expected. Another potential win.
Hahaha! Shame…well I’m glad you’re back online again.
I love those flashy electrical storms, but it usually interferes with our connection too - even when it doesn’t get hit. Actually pretty much anything interferes with it. I think when our neighbour flushes his loo the connection drops for a second or two, I don’t even want to say what happens when a bird sits on the wire.
Lou - I love a good electrical storm! Im from the highveld. Grew up with it and now miss it!