{"id":522,"date":"2006-10-18T19:47:34","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T17:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/522"},"modified":"2006-10-18T19:47:57","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T17:47:57","slug":"cut-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/522","title":{"rendered":"Cut Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I write this I keep hitting &#8216;Try Again&#8217; on the time out thing in Firefox hoping that I have an internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I went to see The Devil Wears Prada with two girlfriends of mine.&nbsp; The movie was good and I really enjoyed getting out with the girls for the evening.&nbsp; We had some good eats, good chat and it was good company.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to get more social and like every autumn I start trying to line things up to keep me busy because I get nervous about the winter coming.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know how the dreary winters in the Netherlands affect me and I don&#8217;t want to end up staying inside feeling lazy and unmotivated for the entire season.<\/p>\n<p>When I got home, Xander told me that the internet had been down since late in the afternoon.&nbsp; It&#8217;s now 24 hours later and it still isn&#8217;t back up yet.<\/p>\n<p>I spent 1 hour and 40 minutes on the line with our provider, between the conversation and the waiting time.&nbsp; He made me change a load of things and nothing ended up being fixed in the end.&nbsp; Now they have some bogus recording saying that it&#8217;s a problem with some other company they work through.<\/p>\n<p>The good thing about being cut off from the world from the day, which is how I feel when my internet is down, is that I got some more housework done and have finally picked up my quilting again.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, it blows.&nbsp; I&#8217;m hoping it comes up again soon.<\/p>\n<p>*Edit*&nbsp; I&#8217;m mooching some VERY LOW wireless from some random neighbour.&nbsp; It&#8217;s only 7:46pm and we&#8217;re both frustrated from having over 24 hours with no connection.<\/p>\n<p>I hate Demon today (our adsl provider).&nbsp; Hopefully will be back soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I write this I keep hitting &#8216;Try Again&#8217; on the time out thing in Firefox hoping that I have an internet connection. Last night I went to see The Devil Wears Prada with two girlfriends of mine.&nbsp; The movie was good and I really enjoyed getting out with the girls for the evening.&nbsp; We &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-randoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}