I just don’t get it…

So after getting back from a graduation party last weekend, my internet wouldn’t work. The wireless was there, but not the internet connection. I unplugged the broadband modem, let it sit for a minute, plugged it back in and everything worked fine. Well, OK, everything that worked fine before I left. My one e-mail account hadn’t been working for quite some time. For some reason, this morning, the wireless wouldn’t work. I unplugged both the modem and the router, let them sit and then plugged everything back in. All of a sudden, my e-mail account works again. And after hibernating the computer and starting it back up again, e-mail still works. I just don’t get it. I’m pretty sure I’ve unplugged the router and modem before, so why is everything working now? I just don’t get it, but I hope it lasts. That was kind of annoying, to say the least…

I want…Friday 2007 #7

I want to have my computer’s e-mail working correctly. For some reason since I got my new wireless router (the old one went kaput), I’ve had trouble connecting to e-mail hosted by my ISP. The weird thing is my old computer is sometimes able to connect and sometimes isn’t, but my new computer has gotten connected once and never since. I’m thinking its not the router since the old computer sometimes connects. I would think a router problem would be more permanent – it either always connects or never connects. And what’s weirder is that I also can’t connect to the online version, though I’ve had other people try and they don’t have any problems at the same time I am. Also, I can always get connected to the online version at work. I can even have my work computer and home computers all connected at home, through my wireless router, with the work computer VPN’ed into the work system and be able to connect through the work computer, but not the home one. It’s getting pretty annoying, and I just want to figure out what’s wrong with it.

I also really want some of my grandfather’s homemade applesauce, but he never wrote down the recipe and we’ve long since run out of what he made. Store brands are close, but have never been quite the same thing. Since I ruined this one for most, if not all, of my readership during lunch, I decided to go with something else for my main “I want…Friday” post. But this one still deserved a mention.