Not having Internet access is really killing me.

First of all, it’s frakking boring as hell when you’re home all day, every day. Especially if you’re used to hopping online, checking news and blog sites, the general surfing around stuff that most of us do these days.

Secondly, it’s aggravating. When you’ve got bills to pay, or train tickets to buy, using dial-up on a phone that gets shoddy reception at best in my apartment is not the best way to navigate through a seven-page secure sign-on/purchase process.

Third, it’s frustrating. I am looking for jobs and filing my unemployment online weekly. Again, it’s possible to do this on my phone, but it would be very tedious. I also can’t email out my resume to anyone, as it is now isolated on my hard drive.

Verizon I supposed to be out today to figure out what is wrong with the modem. They have a ridiculous arrival window of 8am-7pm. That’s eleven hours long and can’t they narrow it down any closer than that? Imagine if you had that kind of leeway with your clients. Phone companies have such a scam going on.

And if they don’t come out today and fix it (something tells me they’re not going to, just my luck) then I’ll need to go to the public library or somewhere that I can use a computer to go online to at least do some job researching and file then file my weekly claim. Do public libraries still have free computers? Rephrase: Have DC public libraries ever even had free computers? Luckily I’m able to write this post as a local draft using WordPress’ mobile app and then post it all at the same time, instead of having to be online the entire time that I’m writing this.

So, if I did have proper Internet access I would be writing about such riveting things as this:

Yesterday I did a grocery store run mite out of necessity of getting outside of the apartment than anything else. I don’t think I’d been outside since Friday. It turned out to be a convenience run more than any kind of investigating what else was on sale: milk, deli turkey, cheese, bread, eggs, etc.

Purchase: $31.14
EBT Card Balance: $89.81
Club Card Savings: $9.77 (24% of purchase)

Update: Interwebs is back online! (Heavy sigh of comfort.)