Troubled connections
Jan. 31st, 2006 04:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lishesquexEver since getting broadband, emule (my file sharing program) hasn't been working properly. The internet would pretty much stop working every time I opened emule, and nothing would download anyway. I did a little TCP and UDP connection test and neither were successful, which basically meant emule was fucked. And that really sucks because what's the point of broadband (apart from 24 hour connection and fastness) if you can't download enormous craploads of music and movies?? I mean really!
But, and this is a very triumphant and happy but... BUT, I think I've fixed it. :-) After some fiddling around with networky stuff that I don't really understand, I managed to get a new port working and now everything seems to be working again. *knocks on woo-- oh crap. Too late. MSN and AIM both just disconnected, and emule, which was downloading a song happily just a few seconds ago has stopped again. ARRRGHHHH!
Tomorrow. *twitch* Tomorrow I will fix this.
My mother hasn't stopped going on about my career choices for a year. It's pretty much chipping away all my self confidence... not that I had all that much in the first place, and making me increasingly neurotic and antisocial. *sigh* I wish she'd just let me be. The constant (and I really do mean constant... as in every time she talks to me. As in whole 30 minute slabs of sitting in my room, repeating things she's already said) nagging has resulted in me giving in to her latest design for me, meaning I'm gonna try and learn enough Chinese to take the HSK, which is an exam so that you can get an internationally recognized certificate of I-Officially-Know-Chinese. She means well, and I'm trying to see the positive side of getting this certificate - and I can see a few - but I wish she'd just respect my choices enough not to oppressively dictate my life to me. And this is exactly the reason why I refuse to come out! My mum would NAG me into becoming straight. She really would.
In other news, I watched Brokeback Mountain today with the lovely![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tangledtale today. It was an excellent if highly depressing movie. I cried. Several times. Go watch it!
Now. Hopefully the net is working enough to let me post this...
But, and this is a very triumphant and happy but... BUT, I think I've fixed it. :-) After some fiddling around with networky stuff that I don't really understand, I managed to get a new port working and now everything seems to be working again. *knocks on woo-- oh crap. Too late. MSN and AIM both just disconnected, and emule, which was downloading a song happily just a few seconds ago has stopped again. ARRRGHHHH!
Tomorrow. *twitch* Tomorrow I will fix this.
My mother hasn't stopped going on about my career choices for a year. It's pretty much chipping away all my self confidence... not that I had all that much in the first place, and making me increasingly neurotic and antisocial. *sigh* I wish she'd just let me be. The constant (and I really do mean constant... as in every time she talks to me. As in whole 30 minute slabs of sitting in my room, repeating things she's already said) nagging has resulted in me giving in to her latest design for me, meaning I'm gonna try and learn enough Chinese to take the HSK, which is an exam so that you can get an internationally recognized certificate of I-Officially-Know-Chinese. She means well, and I'm trying to see the positive side of getting this certificate - and I can see a few - but I wish she'd just respect my choices enough not to oppressively dictate my life to me. And this is exactly the reason why I refuse to come out! My mum would NAG me into becoming straight. She really would.
In other news, I watched Brokeback Mountain today with the lovely
tangledtale today. It was an excellent if highly depressing movie. I cried. Several times. Go watch it!Now. Hopefully the net is working enough to let me post this...
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Date: 2006-01-31 03:34 am (UTC)No way I'm coming out - see above reason. :P
What GF?