Our Internet has decided to only selectively work. By this, I mean that it says it is 100% connected and that everything is happy, but you cannot connect to anything. What makes this even more odd is that it only seems to happen at night, around 9 PM. Is the cable company telling me to go to bed earlier?

It works all day just fine, wireless and wired but, come night, the big fat raspberry on both. It makes no sense. Heck, the TV and phone work and they rely on the very same cable line.

So this issue has been going on for about a week and since I do a lot of work online, it’s really cramping my style.

Example: this weekend, I emailed a client a press release I wrote for her. She never got it. Not surprising considering possessed internet connection behavior. So I email her, from my laptop, that I will resend the file (on my desktop) to her tonight. Because, mainly, I am stupid. So, naturally, tonight the internet doesn’t work at all. I thought if I stayed up really late whatever happens to make it magically work again in the morning (connectivity gnomes?) would happen and I could send it to her then. No dice.

So here am I huddled in a corner in my living room, leaning on the window, stealing the very very weak unsecured wireless internet that has to be from several houses away based on how strong the secured networks around us are so that I can send her the file, as promised, tonight. It took me a good 20 minutes of this pathetic-ness to even get this signal strong enough to work so after puttering with my own internet for a while and then trying to steal internet for a while, now that I finally got it, I feel like I should do something meaningful with it.

On second thought, maybe the cable company is right and I should just take the hint…

Goodnight all. . .

My hubby and I watched an amusing episode of Chef! about this and he told me a story that turned out to be an urban legend about a person on a job interview being rejected because they salted their food before tasting it.

I was thinking about this myself because a friend of mine totally does this. No matter what is put in front of her or who made it, without tasting it, she always puts a ton of salt on it. When she does it while she’s out to dinner, I couldn’t care less, but when she came over to dinner and did it with our cooking, I really was insulted. It’s one thing to take a bite and decide to put salt on it after tasting, but to salt it without even a single taste? My little cousins do this with corn on the cob and we don’t even put salt out anymore for this reason. We already salted the corn and since salt is no good for them, they certainly don’t need more without even tasting it first.

An etiquette site said not to have salt out on the table, because if salt is on the table, the implication is that the person is welcome to salt it. We hardly ever have salt and pepper out for the simple reason that, if we are cooking our own food, we already know there is enough salt or pepper in it and it doesn’t occur to us to put it out for guests. Now the big exception to this is veggies because everyone likes them differently so if the meal is meat and veggies, salt away. But if I have made a recipe of some sort, at least taste it before you salt the heck out of it.

The basis of the urban legend, though, is that you can tell a lot about a person’s personality by this action. I hate to say it, but it’s totally true. This aforementioned friend is very set in her ways to the point where it takes a really long time to convince her of even really obvious things if she was told the opposite first. She never tries new things or gives the other person’s opinion a chance, she just comes in with her own pre-set ideas of what things should be.

Honestly, urban legend or no, if I was eating with someone on a job interview and they salted before even tasting, I wouldn’t hire them either so maybe there is some truth in it afterall.

This could get very addictive. . .

Ebay Match-ups are a new page launched by eBay where you vote on two items for which is better. You can also upload just about anything for a match up.

I have already uploaded new My Little Ponies vs Old MLP and She-Ra vs Xena. I seriously could see my wasting an entire day uploading random combos and then voting on silly things.

Anyway, have fun kiddies. I am going to close the browser and not play with it now because I know I will waste waaay too much time there if I don’t.