Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
tech

router flu

Brian’s mom was having some issues with her pc the other week, so I took a look at it. There were some problems with the configuration of her virus scanner, which I fixed. The computer was working fine on our network, but when she tried to use it at home, the internet connection kept dropping. She ended up having to get a new router, which I installed on Sunday when we were there for my father-in-law’s birthday.

The previous week, our internet connection kept dropping at the office. I contacted the cable company and they said that our modem had been connected to them all week so the problem must be elsewhere. So, I also ordered a new router, which I installed this week. There must be something going around besides this cold Jake gave to me and Brian.

Everything at the office was working ok at first, then our connection started dropping again. This time, the internet light on the cable modem was out. A reboot fixed the problem, but I had to do that a number of times. I’m hoping the issue was somehow related to the weather because it didn’t happen again today. Otherwise, I’ll be buying a new modem next week. I hate hardware problems, because you just never know if the issue is with the hardware or something else.

movies

dolores claiborne

I’ll give it this much, I enjoyed the movie more than the book. That’s probably being a bit critical, though. Actually, the movie was pretty good even though it wasn’t based on one of my favorite Stephen King books. I read it so long ago that I didn’t remember much about the storyline, though things came back to me as the movie progressed. But, whenever Kathy Bates talks in a Stephen King movie, you better listen.

movies

date night

Brian and I watched this movie over the weekend. We both thought it was pretty funny. It got some tepid reviews so I wasn’t sure about watching it, but it was definitely worth the time. The only negative I’ll say is that there were some scenes that dragged on for longer than they needed to, but I think we watched the extended edition so this may have not been an issue in the theatrical release.

holidays

christmas: day 3

We had another Christmas celebration today. This one was at Judy’s house. She was away over the holidays so hence the late get-together.

We went over there around suppertime so she ordered some pizza. Yum! She sent us home with a few pieces and I just ate another one moments ago. Anyway, after the pizza eating, we got down to business–opening gifts. Jake has this thing where he wants everyone else to open their gifts first and then he opens all of his so we did just that. We all got some nice stuff, of course, but the thing I’m most interested in is the book she bought us–Country Wisdom & Know-How. It looks quite informative. I can’t wait to read it. It was also nice to sit around and talk for a bit–we haven’t done that in a little while.

But, the fun had to end sooner or later as Jake has school tomorrow. Brian and I are off, though. Our office is observing New Year’s Day tomorrow, while all of the other suckers are at work. So, we get one more day before everything’s back to normal, but boy is it going to be a busy week.

books

full dark, no stars

More like five stars. What an excellent read this was. It came in the mail right after I started reading Dexter and that booked dragged on a little longer than I would have liked. But, this one more than made up for it. I finished it in a couple of days–I just couldn’t put it down. Each of the four novellas in the book were excellent, though my favorite was the last one, “A Good Marriage”. Two thumbs up.