island tales #43

nightmare! went back home yesterday after a long day at work (downside of midweek holidays: the work just snowballs), looking forward to a night of doing absolutely nothing but play games and surf until my eyeballs fall out. or at least until it's time for bed, whichever comes first. but noo, some things were just not meant to be... clicking on the little 'connect to streamyx' icon resulted in the usual connection window... which promptly mutated into a box that declared some remote computer somewhere was not responding to my urgent pleas to connect to the net.

what the hockaloogie?!?!

a quick inspection of the modem revealed that its usual (happily lit) DSL connection light was off. not even a blink. horrified, i restarted the modem. nothing. picked up the phone. dial tone sounded ok. scratched my head. shrugged. and i went to take a bath.

streamyx was down! there were in fact two possibilities: either my modem was screwed (i certainly hope not!!) or the streamyx exchange was out of commission for the night. either way, i wasn't going online anytime soon... though after the initial irritation was gone, i was off playing a bunch of offline games.

fortunately (and fatefully, i guess) alvin decided to pick that night to invite us to a round of cybercafe games. woot! we left at 9.35, and got back just past 1 am. :P observation: i'm really surprised by how many kids there are who play in cybercafes until very late into the night. hm. don't they need to eat/study/work??! (heh. alright, actually im not that shocked. i'm perfectly aware of how time moves at a different rate for gamers. "what it's night already?!?!")

in any case, i got to work half an hour later today. and it's back to the grind i go. but first: yes, streamyx IS back up... :)