I was waiting for the tow truck

Waiting for the tow truck is embarrassing. Plus I hate waiting. I had planned that the tow truck would take half an hour to get to me. That was wrong as the truck took longer than that to get to me it took about 45 minutes. While I was waiting I was running out of water. So I had to decide should I go get more water or stay where I was at. As soon as you go back in the house the tow truck will show up.

I finally went back into the house and got a fresh bottle of water. I purchase water bottles by the dozen when they are on sale 3 for $9.99 so you end up with 36. Then I re-use them until I can’t reuse them anymore. I re-fill them with tap water. I buy these because they are easy for me to hold, they have a cap that screws back on, they fit into the cup holder in the car, you can drink from them while driving, they are handy for around the house also.

This whole scenario started because I came out to my car and tried to start it. It almost turned over but didn’t make it. I had shopping to do so I called the tow truck. So the dude finally came and I had enough cash. I programmed the phone number into my phone because these people were less expensive than the last tow truck I had to call. So I knew the drill. You have to drive the car for a long enough time to fully charge the battery again.

So I drove ‘around the block’. A very long block and definitely drove for a long enough time. Then I went into Target and got what I had to get. I was not in Target that long I just went in to get what I had to, no dawdling. I came out to the car and had trouble starting it so I knew what I had to do. I drove it over to the repair shop. This was going to take a while because it was not early. You get your car to the shop early and you get your car back early. The later in the day you go the longer it takes.

So I tell the dude what my car story was. He starts talking about well it could be the battery but it could be something in the electrical system. It could be the battery, the alternator, the solenoid, the distributor cap or the wires or the spark plugs and so on and so forth. I knew this because I took a car electrical course at the Junior College. So I went and sat down. I had brought my bag of things I don’t want to leave in the house. My project lists, my passwords book, my checkbook, and other types of personal information. No book to read I had left that at the house.

First thing I had to do was give up my seats for work. So I made that phone call and released my seats for the next 24 hours. The dude said it would take about 40 minutes all told. I didn’t really believe it would only take 40 minutes but started watching the clock anyway. One gal was reading something. I asked her if that was an iPad. She said it was a Kindle™. It was sooooooooo thin and smaller than a piece of paper. So we got into a discussion about reading. She got the Kindle™ in a drawing at work. She prefers books to the Kindle™ and reads on it when she is waiting for something. She recommended a book series to read written by Terry Goodkind The Sword of Truth series.

Lo and behold it only took one hour for my car to be fixed. So now because I had given up my seats for the day I had to decide what to do with my day off. I decided to go to the movies.

The trouble started when I re-named my wireless connection

I renamed it on my pc. Then when I went to start up my laptop. I figured I would have to enter the new password and new name to connect but that didn’t happen or I entered the wrong password.

It just became a big mess and headache after that. I had to recreate a network connection. I tried this I tried that. Then I tried restoring the computer to an earlier day. Nothing worked. I had to go into the network connections to try to figure this all out. I tried to delete the connection and that was a no-no. Headache.

So then I am working on the pc and the wireless connection popped up saying the wireless wasn’t connected. So I right clicked on the Belkin icon on my task bar and at the very top was my wireless connection with the name of it. So I clicked on the name and up popped something that 1 had the name of the network 2 had the password 3 had the security type. BINGO!!! Password ok let me use this password on my laptop.

Problem solved as far as the password goes. It was a long and involved password. So then I go to my laptop and try to connect to the internet. Then when it wanted a password I put that long and involved password in and I was connected. So I thought to myself ok today I am connected but what about tomorrow. Previously after I had set up the wireless network I had to go unplug the Belkin and  wait ten seconds then plug it back in. Then go to laptop and try to connect. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t work.

So the next day I start up the laptop and bingo I am connected. I am thinking ok two days instant connection doesn’t mean squat. Now almost a week later I am thinking ok renaming the wireless connection was a good thing after all. The reason I wanted to rename the wireless connection is that other people with wireless can see the name of the connection. I did not want some hacker seeing the Belkin name and realizing that this stupid person has used the password that came with the router and deciding they can hack in if they want. So now that problem is solved.