6/26 We have very little web access and it's crochety when I can get online...I can load an email and even if I'm bumped off the net, at least I can read it later.
6/30 Don't always get a signal here!!! At least the sky's not spitting. We were on Byers Street, Glasgow, old barber shops...took pix for Joe.
We're off to Wales tomorrow, NON and David are off to the retreat and me to the slopes of Snodonia...
I will write as much as I can before signal drops out...lucky I can read fast. Summer here is like winter in SF!!! sitting in a field waving my laptop around for a signal between showers is not my idea fo summer so I'm green with envy over the idea of warm beaches.
I will send this before signal drops.
I'm in GB until July 23 if we don't extend our stay.
Showing posts with label Johnstone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Johnstone. Show all posts
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Scotland notes, seeking WiFi on the Solstice
6/20 I can't believe I am in Scotland, sitting in a meadow near the ruins of Johnstone Castle, where Chopin once played...it's nearly 9 PM and the sun still hasn't set, the sky is spitting, I'm freezing but it's the only place where I can get wifi reception!
If the council houses weren't in the way, I could look right across the Clyde Valley & Clyde River and see Ben Lomond. I bet there's snow on it.
There's an Arctic wind blowing. Good thing I brought my fleece jacket! Alas, I didn't bring my longjohns or cords, and I will regret it I think...jeans not as warm.
When we flew over Tahoe, the sky was thick with smoke, is California burning??? We left in the midst of a record heat wave and arrived to near winter conditions.
People here are very gossipy I've noted...they are eyeing me susppiciously as I communicate on my laptop from the field, literally... I have to send this now just in case transmission ends. (Neil’s mum is scandalized that I choose to sit outside and write on my laptop. It doesn’t bode well.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Desperately Seeking Wifi
6/19 Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland: Below the Hazel Arms (wifi reception).
I'm still trying to recover from Friday the Thirteenth, actually this whole week before we left for Scotland has been one vast Friday the 13th or like the movie, Groundhog Day...replete with lost passport, plus a hefty SF parking ticket ($50!!) all because of a slow lline at passport agency.
My iMac thinks it's a blank screen with an Apple logo and a fan is running like a 747 and it's allergic to its own startup/repair disk, all my school billing was on it... If I was Jewish, I would be pulling my hair out, saying oy, oy, oy, why me, oh God?
OmiGawd! there's a ring neck pheasant, or a partridge? It looks more like a grouse...sorta like being in Victoria BC here, same plants and latitude. Saw a fox last night...under a sodium light.
It was Neil's and his nephew David's birthday yesterday... we're definitely time confused circadian wise, or witless.
My wifi near the castle has fizzled. I'm looking for an internet signal in a field between showers, bundled up as if for winter... This small rock in the football (soccer) park is the only convenient place where I can pick up a signal.
Maybe Wales will have more consistent wifi.
We joined the Johnstone Library, and the Renfrewshire Library so we could have internet access but navigating Windows under pressure (we're only allowed 15-minute intervals on the PCs) has me stymied for lots of web stuff...too many gates/protocol...plus it's a long walk down to the town centre.
I'm writing this in a library, it's raining cats and dogs. Trying to find a signal on the laptop with a 'brolly in the playing field was way too much of a challenge! even with two people!
I'm still trying to recover from Friday the Thirteenth, actually this whole week before we left for Scotland has been one vast Friday the 13th or like the movie, Groundhog Day...replete with lost passport, plus a hefty SF parking ticket ($50!!) all because of a slow lline at passport agency.
My iMac thinks it's a blank screen with an Apple logo and a fan is running like a 747 and it's allergic to its own startup/repair disk, all my school billing was on it... If I was Jewish, I would be pulling my hair out, saying oy, oy, oy, why me, oh God?
OmiGawd! there's a ring neck pheasant, or a partridge? It looks more like a grouse...sorta like being in Victoria BC here, same plants and latitude. Saw a fox last night...under a sodium light.
It was Neil's and his nephew David's birthday yesterday... we're definitely time confused circadian wise, or witless.
My wifi near the castle has fizzled. I'm looking for an internet signal in a field between showers, bundled up as if for winter... This small rock in the football (soccer) park is the only convenient place where I can pick up a signal.
Maybe Wales will have more consistent wifi.
We joined the Johnstone Library, and the Renfrewshire Library so we could have internet access but navigating Windows under pressure (we're only allowed 15-minute intervals on the PCs) has me stymied for lots of web stuff...too many gates/protocol...plus it's a long walk down to the town centre.
I'm writing this in a library, it's raining cats and dogs. Trying to find a signal on the laptop with a 'brolly in the playing field was way too much of a challenge! even with two people!
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