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9:16am on Sunday, 13th December, 2020:
Anecdote
Next week (or this week if you start counting on Sundays) is the last week of term. As a result, it's a packed one. I have 15 Zoom meetings Monday to Thursday; the only reason I have none on the Friday is that an electrician is coming to fix one of the house circuits and he needs to switch off all power. On top of this, I need to finish pre-recording my lectures and upload them to the university's video repository.
I was therefore not happy when, on Thursday last week, my trusty headphones-with-boom-microphone broke. There was no particular event that broke them, it was simply wear and tear. Stress fractures in a plastic component that held the left earphone (which also has the microphone) to the rest of the assembly gave way, and now it just dangles there. I had to order another headset, which arrived surprisingly quickly and only took me an hour and a half to get working (the boom mic is removable and came removed; inserting it such that it didn't produced muffled sounds proved to be more of a tussle than I was expecting).
That was good news, but yesterday our Internet connection went down. It still hasn't come back up. I'm typing this over the 1.7mbps ADSL connection we keep as backup. The connection to the router works, but the connection from the router to the Internet doesn't. I replaced the router, just in case, but it didn't help. We don't have cable, so the connection to the house is Wireless. My suspicion is that either our aerial or the line-of-sight transmitter is misaligned, although last time this happened it was because of a software bug at the ISP end.
Fortunately, my wife (who is also working from home) begins her Christmas break on Wednesday, so will only be disgruntled that her virtual desktop doesn't work for two days. Thereafter, she'll be disgruntled because Netflix doesn't work.
I may find myself having to use my phone as a hotspot.
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