Day: April 7, 2015

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Funny what missing a Zero can do

 As regular readers know, we switched to a satellite internet service.

Recently I’ve also been fighting my way through some computer woes. That battle led me to doing a clean install of my operating system. Yep, I flushed everything, reformatted my drive, then reloaded the OS. No big deal, except that downloading fresh copies of every application I purchased, and all the security updates happened to be significantly larger than 10GB.

This too isn’t a big deal if you’ve got 100GB of upload and download per month.

Except that I don’t!

I gllanced over the shoulder of the other half, looked at a little graph, saw lots of green and promptly misread the number. in fairness, the data was represented in MB instead of GB so it wasn’t like i misread the difference between 10 and 100. It was the differnece between 9756.00 and 97560.00. Still bad, and God knows I wish the bank would make that kind of mistake, (in my favor) however it’s easy to do at a glance.

I told my computer to download everything! After all that’s what cloud services are for, right?

OOOOPPPSSS!

Now we get to find out what the internet service means by “Slows your service down” for the next 15 days. My bad!

Getting dirty looks from the other half .

Maybe it was a bit excessive to be sitting on the couch, watching Netflix at the same time I was blowing through our 10GB monthly allotment in 2 hours. Maybe I should have double checked the plan just once more before pressing “ALL“. It’s all data through the wire now…

I hear a certain woman in my head, “What does it matter at this point anyway?”

My computer is currently re-installing applications. I know I have the serial numbers for all those non-cloud apps somewhere around here. Its just going to be a challenge to locate them all. In the mean time, my iPad is substituting  for my computer.

This probably means that I’m going to make the mistakes in spelling that I complain about all the time. Perhaps, this is simply a case of not being able to beat them – so I’ve joined them.

Have a great day and think kindly of me as I serve my pennance in digital Hell.