There's Only One Thing Worse ........

Introduction

Every so often my blog throws up something that I deem worth sharing on Vocal. I assume that because people or robots are hitting it on Seven Days In then maybe Vocal readers may also find it a little entertaining.

This is a Blog post from 2016 so it was very pre-Vocal, so you can see what my writing was like at the time.

As it is half an hour to midnight I will expand this to hit the required six hundred words for a Vocal story (unless it is a poem or a Writers piece or Micro Fiction).

Midnight is almost here so it is time to wrap this up and send it to one of the Vocal Communities then I can do Wordle and go to bed.

There's Only One Thing Worse .......

..... than something not working is something (apparently) working when it shouldn't do. This happened to me this morning. Maybe my reactions were slow, maybe I was tired and if I'd have thought properly this wouldn't have happened.

I switched on my PC and it said there was no internet connection. Hmm I thought, then I thought "Ah My Phone is connected to my router via WiFi, I 'll check that" ... and of course it was working fine. It must be my PC, or the cable, but all my checks seemed to imply that the cabling was fine. I though "I don't want to have to install a new internet thing into the PC" but it was pointing towards the PC being the problem.....

... then I remembered I had the switch on my phone set to use 4G if there was no wifi connection, rebooted the modem and all was fine. I spent half an hour messing with wires and connecting and disconnecting when if I'd have just rebooted the modem all would have been sorted because I thought my phone was running off WiFi when it was really running off 4G. C'est la vie.

Also, this is my 1200th post just thought I'd tell you that, there is probably enough stuff on here to actually work out a book from, I'm sure psychiatrists would have a field day ("He's a Very Boring and Uninteresting Person, Lock Him Up").

So as I write this I am listening to my Faces boxed set that my girls bought me, so I'll play a Faces song and what should it be? "That's All You Need" is probably my favourite slide driven rock song of all time, so I think we'll go with that.

Have a brilliant Friday night my friends, it is the best night of the week, Monday is 48 hours away so plenty of time to relax and have fun.

Conclusion

So this is where I was seven or eight years back, writing about something that happened and how it flummoxed me for a while.

I do look at all the wiring that I have put together to run the network stuff in my house and think I would be quite disturbed if anything were to really go wrong with it.

Could I fix it?

I have a website update to do here: and I use Filezilla to upload stuff but it wasn't working today because they have made changes to the storage area. Luckily a password reset fixed that, and I breathed a huge sigh of relief.

Thank you for reading this and I hope it has given you an insight into where I was, and the progress I have made as a writer on Vocal.

Time for my bed now