52/425: It Rains, It Poors.
May. 4th, 2026 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rejectomorphSaturday night I forgot to check the weather forecast, so it was a complete surprise when I woke up Sunday morning to full-on rain. Not wanting such a surprise two days in a row, on Sunday evening I tried to check the forecast and discovered that my Idnernet was gone. Blast! I had failed to recharge the phone that fetches my hotspot and its battery had voided itself. I recharged the phone and rebooted it and fetched the hotspot, but when I got back to the computer there was still no connection. I rechecked the phone and the hotspot was indeed showing, but the computer couldn't find it. I rebooted the phone, but that didn't fix the problem.
That, in retrospect, is where I got very stupid I spent the next couple of hours futzing around with settings and such, but no success. I had a few browser tabs loaded with music videos, and I played those again and again, staving off the worst of the Idernet withdrawal symptoms. I couldn't find a fix, so I went to bed and decided that I would tackle the problem in the morning. So Monday morning came and two things remained the same; I couldn't re-fetch the missing Idernet and it was still raining. Monday afternoon I texted my niece to see if she had any ideas about getting Idernet back and she asked if I had rebooted the computer.
D'oh!
It turns out the computer and I both got stupid the same way at the same time, forgetting something very important. So I rebooted the damned computer and got the Idernet back. My own poor brain of course still unfixable. But currently at least capable of checking the weather report, which tells me the rain is over, and day after tomorrow we will be getting rapidly warmer, with highs topping ninety by Saturday, and thereafter. Not looking forward to that.
That, in retrospect, is where I got very stupid I spent the next couple of hours futzing around with settings and such, but no success. I had a few browser tabs loaded with music videos, and I played those again and again, staving off the worst of the Idernet withdrawal symptoms. I couldn't find a fix, so I went to bed and decided that I would tackle the problem in the morning. So Monday morning came and two things remained the same; I couldn't re-fetch the missing Idernet and it was still raining. Monday afternoon I texted my niece to see if she had any ideas about getting Idernet back and she asked if I had rebooted the computer.
D'oh!
It turns out the computer and I both got stupid the same way at the same time, forgetting something very important. So I rebooted the damned computer and got the Idernet back. My own poor brain of course still unfixable. But currently at least capable of checking the weather report, which tells me the rain is over, and day after tomorrow we will be getting rapidly warmer, with highs topping ninety by Saturday, and thereafter. Not looking forward to that.
