sunshine0221's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm Not Really an Addict, I Can Stop Whenever I Want To I'm Not Really an Addict, I Can Stop Whenever I Want To Okay I lied. I am addicted to the internet. I have a big, huge, heroin-like addiction. I get the shakes when I go too long without checking email and message boards. Today, when I went to log on, I kept losing my dial up connection. It's not bad enough that I have a dial up, it has to go flaky on me too? So it was check email, watch my connection icon get a red x, dial up again, and watch the same thing happen. The only thing that kept me from shaking and weeping was that today is Clean My House Day, and I suspected that the spirit of Martha Stewart knew that, well, I'm an addict, and even if I weren't, who wouldn't rather play on the web than clean??? I got so desperate that I even defragged my machine. Took two hours and arrgghh it didn't help. I ranted to my mom, who said to call my service provider. I shrieked, "That can't help!!! How can they help??", as I switched out my phone cords. "Call them", she replied. I whined, "But what can they DO???", as I considered climbing the phone pole and checking the connections there. "Here's the number." I called them. And my Outlook settings had changed themselves to disconnect after checking mail. I suspect sabotage. And I predict about a month of I Told You So's from the mom. Maybe more. 3:07 p.m. - August 21, 2002 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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