Just Follow Instructions
Posted on September 25, 2005 by Ching under Life.
Okay, I just have to get this off my chest because this incident makes me proud to be a woman. Guys are just stupid, stupid, stupid. They would be smart if they just learned to follow instructions. Anyway, so the router dies and I’m mad because this means we have to spend money to buy a replacement. I send Brian to the store to buy a router. I tell him specifically, I want a Linksys router. I want the exact same one that we have. I know I’m being too specific, but I’m familiar with setting up this one (as far as port forwarding for the live cam goes and I don’t want to mess with learning how to set it up on a different router). It will be far more convenient for me if he gets the same one, so that is why I asked for it specifically. He said he could get it from Wal-Mart. It was late, around midnight, and I figured that it’s a pretty simple task so I left it up to him. Fast forward to this morning. I wake up a little before nine o’clock. I go, “How did it go last night?” He goes, “I just went to bed, I can’t get it to work. We’ll call dad later.” This baffles me because this shit is plug and play. It’s so simple, Logan could do it! So since he wants to get some more sleep I go, “Is the shit plugged in? If so, I’m going to go work on it.” So I go to office and start checking it out. Guess what. He bought a hub. I sent him to the store to get a router and he comes home with a freaking hub! Okay, so granted he got the Linksys part right, but it’s a freaking hub! I said I wanted a router dammit! I return to the bedroom fuming. I’m thinking no wonder he spent several hours trying to get it to work and still couldn’t. “What possessed you to buy a hub? You need to go back to the store and exchange it for a router!” I demanded. “Okay, but I just got to bed. I’ve only had three hours of sleep. Wake me up in a little bit.” I’m upset, but there is no point arguing with someone who isn’t even awake so I let him be. Deep down, though, I’m thinking it’s not my fault you spent all night trying to get the stupid hub to work. It wasn’t my idea to buy a hub. Had you bought a router, the shit would’ve worked and you wouldn’t have had to stay up. It’s not my fault you didn’t get any sleep. I felt that he should go to the store get the stupid hub exchanged pronto, but the guy is asleep. What can you do? So I went to the family room, blogged through my phone (which I love by the way) and masturbated. Yeah, sexual gratification is my solution to everything. I’m so glad I’m not a drug addict. I’d be so cracked out all the time. At least if you’re high on orgasms it doesn’t show up on urine or blood tests. It’s all natural. But I digress… Shall we continue? Around noon I returned to the bedroom to wake Brian up. “Okay, time to go to the store,” I tell him. Still disoriented he goes, “What? What’s happening?” I tell him again what he needs to do and he replies, “Okay, give me a minute to wake up.” A few minutes later, after much pouting and whining from me, he reluctantly gets dressed. Fast forward to him returning from the store with a router. It looks identical to the one we had before. So far so good. I read the box for confirmation, “Cable/DSL Router.” Eureka! We’re in business! We go to the office, plug the shit in. Immediately it starts working. Beautiful! He’s got internet. I’ve got internet. He tried accessing the Excel checkbook register which is on my computer and he was able to open it without any problems. Home network is back. Everything seemed to be working again. There was only one last thing: the live cam. Went to the port forwarding section. I found my bookmark no longer worked, it’s now forwarding.htm instead of forwarding.html, but everything else still pretty much looked or warked the same way. See, this is why it’s important to stick with the things that you are familiar with. Who wants to waste their time configuring shit? Anyway, the live cam didn’t work right away. I actually had to go to the Dynamic DNS website to modify my IP address because it had changed in the interim. Our high-speed internet provider doesn’t assign static IP addresses unless you’ve got a business account. I don’t really need a business account as long as I’ve got Dynamic DNS. After that, everything worked. All of that took about five minutes. No one had to stay up late. No one had to call tech support. No one had to spend five hours jacking with the stupid equipment. So let this be a lesson learned to all you men out there: Just follow the god damn instructions!
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