I’ve been fapped or splatted or

temporarily 86’d from my internet satellite usage.  PUKE!  I had no idea that hughes.net was a such a nambi-pambi bitchwort since I never received any paperwork or terms or conditions, etc.  Last night I was playing 6 handed $11 buy-in tourney on PokerStars, lost my internet connection completely and could never reconnect.  At the same time I was trying to download a gigantically huge file to update my iPhone.  No, no bells went off.

I walked away from the pc and played a game on Wii, came back later, sent the satellite out to seek and everything appeared to be fine.  I was long gone out of the tournament by then and had given up hope of even reconnecting.  I finished the download for the iPhone, put up a few articles, and hit the hay.  Upon crawling out around 8 a.m. I found that I was back to ground zero.  Three computers, all showed my internet connection as excellent but no connection when I tried to go anywhere.  I called Satellite World first, the guys that spent forever working on my satellite last year.  He told me to call Motosat.  I did.  They figured it out for me.  Apparently there are free hours where I can upload/download without any penalties, then there is a restricted time where if I download gigantic files like movies or iPhone updates, blah, blah, that I had been fapped.  I’m pretty much offline for 24 hours Eastern time.  How nice it would have been if only I’d known in advance.

So….

Right now I’m at a Best Western in Pahrump, they graciously have allowed me to use their lobby wifi access free.  I had planned to just get a room and get my work done, this is much better, costs less and I’m at a desk.  Damn…some things are very nice, like small town hospitality.

On the home front:

The truck driving duo hit the road today.  MOI feels much better, antibiotics presecribed were the right ones after a call from the Dr.  Riot is in family lockdown and his mom won’t let him come out and play.  My fence/wall project has started.  I have the afternoon to play the Wii, shovel gravel, or just hang out…choices are wonderful.

Laters.