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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 160309" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Just to update - Marg's Man (my husband) posted about me being MIA from this site because we lost our internet access from home. He was able to log on at work, of course.</p><p>We've had a busy week. On Monday difficult child 1 had a day off work (from his new job) and used it to put his new second-hand car in for service. He also had an urgent appointment with his disability angency so I had to drive him there and back, leaving difficult child 3 home alone and hopefully working.</p><p></p><p>Wednesday - difficult child 3 had a big day at his correspondence school, their annual expo. He had a fun day - rock-climbing, making a wooden puzzle, fishing for aquatic insects, watching a science show, participating in a satellite link to another school. On the way home we did some shopping, bought Wii Fit (which he didn't get to touch until we'd tidied up the family room) and had his evening drama class.</p><p>On the way home from drama we were dazzled by a lot of lightning from a distant storm which passed to the west of us. There was a lot of thunder and lightning to the east as well, but counting seconds between the flash and the boom told us the storms were miles away and would miss us.</p><p>By the time we went to bed all was quiet and the sky was clear.</p><p></p><p>3.15 am we were woken by a loud clap of thunder. Very loud. husband had woken a split second beforfe by the intense lightning flash. Then more - less than 2 seconds between flash and boom. Five seconds means the storm is a mile away. Over and over, flash - boom, flash - boom. No chance to sleep.</p><p>Then it eased and we slept a little, until 4.30 when we hadd simultaneous boomflash, no interval. Direct hit. And again. Over and over.</p><p></p><p>Next morning we were very tired from lack of sleep. I asked difficult child 3, "How did you sleep?"</p><p>He replied, "There were 24 thunderclaps, all of them really close." He had counted them all and gave me the intervals (or lack of) for just about all of them. Poor kid hadn't slept.</p><p>We'd had almost 3" of rain in that hour of storm. The next town north on the other side of the water had only had 2" and no major storm damage.</p><p></p><p>Round midday Thursday I tried to go online to check out this site, only to find we had no internet service. The router power was out so I got difficult child 3 to help me check - the power supply transformer was dead. I had been invited that night to go out with therapist friend so I left it to husband.</p><p></p><p>Friday - difficult child 3 had a maths study day at school so I drove him in to the city while husband took the router to work to get it checked out by their technicians. Meanwhile in the rush and chronic lack of sleep, difficult child 3 forgot his medications. Our trip was a waste. As he got nothing useful done that day, we made today (Saturday) into a school day.</p><p></p><p>Saturday - last night, right on midnight, husband finally realised that not only was the router burnt out, so was the communications centre of our computer. I had printed from it on Thursday without trouble but the technicians I spoke to today said that used a different port - the USB. Looks like we need a new motherboard, even though this computer seems fine apart from not talking to any other computer or network. $1000 minimum. New computer - $1500. </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile the new router works. The computer can't see it. Our laptops can. So we're struggling with a cable strung around the house and hooked in to whichever laptop is trying to connect to the world.</p><p></p><p>Today difficult child 3 did his online lessons with easy child 2/difficult child 2's laptop. Tonight I'm struggling to make it all work.</p><p></p><p>We're back online, but not fully. This could take a while. On Monday I have another trip, to the service shop to find out what the damage is and how much it will cost. I need to organise a report and maybe get a new computer. Insurance will take 60 days, assuming they OK the claim at all.</p><p></p><p>Talking to others in the village - it looks like that first thunderclap, with the 2 second delay - hit the phone lines. Two seconds is about how far away the lines are, as the crow squawks. Other people have faulty phones, or similar problems.</p><p></p><p>At least I wasn't talking on the phone when the lightning hit - that happened to me once, and it was once too often!</p><p></p><p>So please excuse my absence, and only partial attendance for a while.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 160309, member: 1991"] Just to update - Marg's Man (my husband) posted about me being MIA from this site because we lost our internet access from home. He was able to log on at work, of course. We've had a busy week. On Monday difficult child 1 had a day off work (from his new job) and used it to put his new second-hand car in for service. He also had an urgent appointment with his disability angency so I had to drive him there and back, leaving difficult child 3 home alone and hopefully working. Wednesday - difficult child 3 had a big day at his correspondence school, their annual expo. He had a fun day - rock-climbing, making a wooden puzzle, fishing for aquatic insects, watching a science show, participating in a satellite link to another school. On the way home we did some shopping, bought Wii Fit (which he didn't get to touch until we'd tidied up the family room) and had his evening drama class. On the way home from drama we were dazzled by a lot of lightning from a distant storm which passed to the west of us. There was a lot of thunder and lightning to the east as well, but counting seconds between the flash and the boom told us the storms were miles away and would miss us. By the time we went to bed all was quiet and the sky was clear. 3.15 am we were woken by a loud clap of thunder. Very loud. husband had woken a split second beforfe by the intense lightning flash. Then more - less than 2 seconds between flash and boom. Five seconds means the storm is a mile away. Over and over, flash - boom, flash - boom. No chance to sleep. Then it eased and we slept a little, until 4.30 when we hadd simultaneous boomflash, no interval. Direct hit. And again. Over and over. Next morning we were very tired from lack of sleep. I asked difficult child 3, "How did you sleep?" He replied, "There were 24 thunderclaps, all of them really close." He had counted them all and gave me the intervals (or lack of) for just about all of them. Poor kid hadn't slept. We'd had almost 3" of rain in that hour of storm. The next town north on the other side of the water had only had 2" and no major storm damage. Round midday Thursday I tried to go online to check out this site, only to find we had no internet service. The router power was out so I got difficult child 3 to help me check - the power supply transformer was dead. I had been invited that night to go out with therapist friend so I left it to husband. Friday - difficult child 3 had a maths study day at school so I drove him in to the city while husband took the router to work to get it checked out by their technicians. Meanwhile in the rush and chronic lack of sleep, difficult child 3 forgot his medications. Our trip was a waste. As he got nothing useful done that day, we made today (Saturday) into a school day. Saturday - last night, right on midnight, husband finally realised that not only was the router burnt out, so was the communications centre of our computer. I had printed from it on Thursday without trouble but the technicians I spoke to today said that used a different port - the USB. Looks like we need a new motherboard, even though this computer seems fine apart from not talking to any other computer or network. $1000 minimum. New computer - $1500. Meanwhile the new router works. The computer can't see it. Our laptops can. So we're struggling with a cable strung around the house and hooked in to whichever laptop is trying to connect to the world. Today difficult child 3 did his online lessons with easy child 2/difficult child 2's laptop. Tonight I'm struggling to make it all work. We're back online, but not fully. This could take a while. On Monday I have another trip, to the service shop to find out what the damage is and how much it will cost. I need to organise a report and maybe get a new computer. Insurance will take 60 days, assuming they OK the claim at all. Talking to others in the village - it looks like that first thunderclap, with the 2 second delay - hit the phone lines. Two seconds is about how far away the lines are, as the crow squawks. Other people have faulty phones, or similar problems. At least I wasn't talking on the phone when the lightning hit - that happened to me once, and it was once too often! So please excuse my absence, and only partial attendance for a while. Marg [/QUOTE]
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