Internet is essential

No internet right now, so I’ll be posting this when it’s back up. Since Sept 4, I’ve had no internet. It’d been sporadic for the first week of Sept, and I had to keep resetting the router. Then it crapped out in the middle of the night on Wednesday while I was trying to d/l a torrent. Called CIA tech, and they said they’d send a Shaw tech over on Tuesday. Then no one comes, and I call them again, and they said there was some issue w/ my brother’s old acct on Shaw, and that they just got that fixed and once another Shaw tech is free, they’ll call me to see what time is good. Now it’s Sept 20, my brother decided to cancel his CIA acct and go back to Shaw. And b/c he has digital phone also, he doesn’t want to try to move up the hookup date b/c he has to port the number back to Shaw. So I’ll be w/o internet for the whole freaking month. And I have to apply for jobs b/c my position at DOJ is up. So yesterday I stayed after work to use their Internet, but of course w/ the firewall, I couldn’t access my email accounts. And I ended up having to make a new profile b/c my old profile wouldn’t allow me to long in and the resetted password was sent to my inaccessible email account. Gawd, I’m pissed. Good thing I recently bought a USB flashdrive and the computer’s usb drives weren’t disabled.

The EB Games in the mall got a used NDS browser, so I’m like, “sweet! I can get some internet!” Well, the idiots at EB Games never checked to see if the seller set up a password, so when I plugged it in, it didn’t work. And there was no password written in the booklets. So I had to call Nintendo this morning (short hold time, yeah!!!) and ask how to reset it. It’s quite a finger feat. But it’s working now... if only our neighbours’ signal wasn’t so crappy. Do not try to use Facebook. It does work but takes forever to load. And I was just trying to update my status that I had no internet. But I don’t think it worked. And it kept running out of memory, even though I had the memory expansion pack. Right now, I’m waiting for my Darsh to recharge, b/c I was hoping to take it to somewhere that had Wi-Fi and use it there...but it’s getting late and I wanna see the Score street party which starts at 7 EST. I might have to leave w/o it. My brother and sister-in-law came over and she asked how I was. I was truthful. I told her “crappy”.

Speaking of hold time, and why it’s important to me. Not just b/c it’s annoying to be on hold, even if they are playing classical music (annoyingly interrupted by their ads), but b/c it eats up my cellphone minutes. I’d been on hold w/ CIA for over 45, and then when I was trying to call Standard Life, after waiting 15 mins they dropped my call b/c their centre was closed. And I’d already gotten the warning that I had less than 50 min left on my pkg. So I had to use my office phone to call Standard Life. Which is kinda awkward when your co-workers are leaving and saying bye, and you’re on a personal call. *sigh* Although I think most people know that I have no internet, and my workterm is ending soon, so I don’t think anyone really cares. At least I never did it during my workhours, unlike some other people. My stupid brother has the nerve to email me at work when it’s his fault I have no internet at home.

Bodyworks exhibit

Went to see the Bodyworks exhibit at the Telus Space and Science Centre. I went with a bunch of my friends. They were finished about 30 - 45 minutes before I was. But then again, they’ve never taken any biology courses. I had Human Osteology in University so it was loads of fun to see exactly how the flesh was attached (or detached) to the body. And yes, when I got to the exhibit w/ the horse and rider, there was a lotta gawking at the horse’s...member. Although these 2 women next to me remarked a lot more about it to each other and then compared it to their horses. Anyways, other than that part of the horse, I was wondering if I could actually see the horse’s 4-chamber stomach. It just looked like a big sac. Although the 2 ladies were oddly surprised that the horse’s lungs were so big, which made me wonder how much they knew about horses in the first place... other than that part. Quite surprised that most of the exhibits were out in the open, and had a bit of cobwebs on them. Had to keep my hands clasped behind my back to avoid touching them. Was allowed to touch a lung and some cross-sections of the ulna. D remarked how few female specimens there were. And he finished early and then started hovering around me. Which is really annoying since I was in the reproductive and lower bits section, and he’s a sex-fiend. It’s much better to see the full version of all the body parts instead of in a book. Easier to figure their relationships to each other. And w/ the specimens that had the layers of muscles revealed, I tried to figure out how to attach additional body parts to that area like wings and such. Easiest is really the tail b/c we used to have them.

When I told my co-workers about the exhibit, a few of them were squirmish, especially our acting manager. I dunno, it wasn’t that bad. But then again, I did eat lunch while watching a film about trephination on the skull. Just watching them drill and then saw away at the skull. Heh heh.

Then that night, I read the “if you should die” chapter in The Kurasagi Corpse Delivery Service Vol. 4 and it was pretty creepy. Not really the body parts, although the living daruma was scary. But more that it could be entirely possible to disguise torture and living dissections as exhibits...and maybe I went to one. A lot of the drawings were similar to the dissections of the bodies at the exhibit. Yeah, I was creeped out.