Sunday, May 11, 2008
A rambly ramble 'bout the Internets
I will ignore the child crying like a fire engine while his mother pats his back with one hand and shoves food into her mouth with the other. I also will ignore the woman who sat alone at the table next to me, almost sideways in her chair, and continues to stare at me as she eats her pastry.
I am at that "bread" restaurant people have raved about, for the first time. I'm enjoying a soda and a cheese pastry. And free Internets.
Free. Internets.
I have canceled the Internets at home, due to Schmerizon's poor performance. Since I moved here, I have had many weeks without it, and have gotten used to not having it. So why pay them? For the price of a soda/tea I was gonna buy anyway, I can sit and surf and sigh. Ahhhhh.
I'll use the money I save to reimburse myself for the shoes I bought yesterday, $25 a pair for three pairs of sandals (two dressy-ish, one not-so-dressy-ish). I did so need them! What I didn't need, but couldn't refuse, was the $45 pair of Converse sneakers, low-tops, blue. Very cute. I'm going to price check, though, at other stores (online, of course), but I'm sure DSW is hard to beat.
Or I could put the savings toward the texts for the classes I'm taking starting this summer at a local university (go Wildcats!).
Or I could buy books, you remember them -- a major source of entertainment pre-Internets. Oh, how I loves me some books. The words! The paper! The smell of new, untouched, un-flipped-through pages! I even get excited about the textbooks smelling new. That helps to ease the pain of paying a car payment or two for the pleasure of owning them, new.
But for now I'll sit back and enjoy the conversation of the two brothers next to me. They're currently complaining about the child's whining cry.
"Makes you not want one, eh?" one says to the other.
My inner critic agrees.
"Do they come with an off switch?"
It's a small price to pay for free Internets and not having to deal with the whining Schmerizon repair man, who, it seems from my lack of service so many times, does more harm than good.
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I am at that "bread" restaurant people have raved about, for the first time. I'm enjoying a soda and a cheese pastry. And free Internets.
Free. Internets.
I have canceled the Internets at home, due to Schmerizon's poor performance. Since I moved here, I have had many weeks without it, and have gotten used to not having it. So why pay them? For the price of a soda/tea I was gonna buy anyway, I can sit and surf and sigh. Ahhhhh.
I'll use the money I save to reimburse myself for the shoes I bought yesterday, $25 a pair for three pairs of sandals (two dressy-ish, one not-so-dressy-ish). I did so need them! What I didn't need, but couldn't refuse, was the $45 pair of Converse sneakers, low-tops, blue. Very cute. I'm going to price check, though, at other stores (online, of course), but I'm sure DSW is hard to beat.
Or I could put the savings toward the texts for the classes I'm taking starting this summer at a local university (go Wildcats!).
Or I could buy books, you remember them -- a major source of entertainment pre-Internets. Oh, how I loves me some books. The words! The paper! The smell of new, untouched, un-flipped-through pages! I even get excited about the textbooks smelling new. That helps to ease the pain of paying a car payment or two for the pleasure of owning them, new.
But for now I'll sit back and enjoy the conversation of the two brothers next to me. They're currently complaining about the child's whining cry.
"Makes you not want one, eh?" one says to the other.
My inner critic agrees.
"Do they come with an off switch?"
It's a small price to pay for free Internets and not having to deal with the whining Schmerizon repair man, who, it seems from my lack of service so many times, does more harm than good.
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