The internet was getting wonky. Wifi was spotty. Load times were increasing. The whole “at home internet experience” was deteriorating.

Then, last night, KABOOM! In one dialog box the entire internet was lost to me.

First I panicked. Then I called my ISP. Then I called them again. THEN, after a few hours, I got reconnected, but wifi was gone. I marched my Time Capsule in to the Apple Store. They said it was fine. It wasn’t yet. In the meantime, internet had slowed to a crawl again. I called my ISP again. They decided it was time to send a dude, the next day in fact. Today. I almost missed the dude, since they ALWAYS take your number down wrong and so I never got the 30 minute warning. I caught him as he was leaving. Whatever. Another hour and a new modem later we were back online. Time Capsule, however, was not. What are the chances of both going to shit at the same time?? Only me….  So my afternoon (6 hours in fact) were spent trouble-shooting the Time Capsule thing.

Long story short: I ALWAYS buy the Apple Care. Have never, in two iMacs 3 iPhones countless iPods and shuffles, have I ever used it. This Time Capsule is the only purchase I have made and NOT bought Apple Care. So of course I needed it. I would have been covered. I would have not spent all this TIME.

Ai dios mio!!!

SO anyhoo, I eventually wiped the whole thing clean and reset as if it were new. And now it works.

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Times sure have changed.

You all know I am a Madonna queen. I go waaay back. Further than I care to admit. I remember staying up late, after bedtime, with my clock radio pressed against my ear to hear her latest song premier on radio. RADIO. I think it was Material Girl then. She had not only video premiers, but RADIO premiers. So fucking fabulous. I knew that she was fabulous back when I was like 12.

Anyhoo. So, yeah. I was talking about today. I now have Justify My Love, THE VIDEO, in my iPod. I dunno if you remember or not. Justify My Love was a ‘go to the store and buy the video on VHS only’ due to ‘adult content’. I did go and buy it. I still have that tape, and one last machine that can play it. But now thanks to YouTube (and some other tech secrets) I now have that naughty video in my iPod Classic.

I love that.

“Wanting, needing, waiting….” Heh. “You put this in me…”

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