I Need A Computer Failure Icon...
Mar. 7th, 2009 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
masterofmidgetsGah, Max is being particularly difficult today. DDDX
Right after I got on tonight, I suddenly kept getting the "Page Load Error" screen every time I tried to go to a site that wasn't Fivethirtyeight, and half the time when I did go there. Sometimes I would get a page to load once, seemingly at random, only to go down again thirty seconds later. At first I thought it was just my internet being wonky; the network at Stanford's pretty good, but it throws random bitchfits on occasion.
But, but, I was still online! The cord was plugged in, the icon on my taskbar said had internet, and most importantly, MESSENGER WAS STILL WORKING. Which I knew because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
telyanofcelore was still replying to me being all OH NO WHERE IS MY INTERNET?
Honestly, how does that work? How can I be demonstrably connected to the internet but completely unable to actually view it? *is confused*
Anyway, finally I gave up and restarted, and that seemed to fix things, but it made me all nervous and irritable. So instead of getting anything at all done, I've been working at the de-aging fic, which has been stalled at a particularly troublesome scene for like two weeks. Man, I really really wish I didn't have this thing where I am constitutionally incapable of writing scenes out of order. It would make my life SO much easier.
Right after I got on tonight, I suddenly kept getting the "Page Load Error" screen every time I tried to go to a site that wasn't Fivethirtyeight, and half the time when I did go there. Sometimes I would get a page to load once, seemingly at random, only to go down again thirty seconds later. At first I thought it was just my internet being wonky; the network at Stanford's pretty good, but it throws random bitchfits on occasion.
But, but, I was still online! The cord was plugged in, the icon on my taskbar said had internet, and most importantly, MESSENGER WAS STILL WORKING. Which I knew because
telyanofcelore was still replying to me being all OH NO WHERE IS MY INTERNET?Honestly, how does that work? How can I be demonstrably connected to the internet but completely unable to actually view it? *is confused*
Anyway, finally I gave up and restarted, and that seemed to fix things, but it made me all nervous and irritable. So instead of getting anything at all done, I've been working at the de-aging fic, which has been stalled at a particularly troublesome scene for like two weeks. Man, I really really wish I didn't have this thing where I am constitutionally incapable of writing scenes out of order. It would make my life SO much easier.