Wednesday, June 8, 2016

A Ghastly Loss of Internet

Hello everybody and thanks for stopping by.  I am finally glad to be able to write to you.  Last week we lost internet.  For the last month we have had issues with internet.  First, the modem that we had only had for around 4 months melted!  Yea, MELTED!  It basically over heated and melted the plastic on one side of the modem.  So we ordered a new one, and had to wait 3 days for that one to come.  Then it did not want to reach the whole house.  So we had to call and have a repairman come out and give us a new phone jack. We then had the modem in the middle of the house and everyone was happy.  That is until we were not.

Last Thursday we suddenly lost internet.  I thought it was the weather but that was not the case.  After being on hold forever I got tech support who had me try a few things unsuccessfully, and 50 minutes later had an appointment with the repairman for Tuesday!

If you have read my blog for a while you know that if something rare or weird could happen to someone it happens to ME!  So the repairman told me that he did not know how it happened but the modem quit talking to the box and had deleted all the commands it needed to get on to the internet.

So after a week with no internet the kids were going a bit crazy.  I just did some design work and beading.  Funny how much we rely on something so invisible to keep us amused.  One downside for me and my OCD is that I had over 700 emails.  Which my kids make fun of since both of them have over 2,000+ .  I think I would have a panic attack with that many unread emails.  God bless the delete button!

Now, onto happier and more Ghastly things.  Yerp, I said ghastly.  That is the word this week over at Every Inchie Monday.  For me this was an easy one.  My kids have grown up with Pokemon and other pocket monster-type games so I knew that there is a pokemon named Gastly.  So did many of the other artists at EIM.  When I told my kids about this pokemon they mentioned that maybe I should try to be different, (like when do I ever follow the path well traveled, you would think these kids don't know me!) and go with the Shiny Gastly.  Basically (from what I can tell) he is different colors from the regular Gastly.  So I figured, why not be different for once!  PFFFFTT!


Not really too much different and not sure you can tell by this picture the color difference.  But regular Gastly is black with a purple gas and Shiny Gastly is a dark purple with a blue gas.  Apparently that is important?!?  o.O

During my internet "purge" I was glad that I had already downloaded the B&B Extra that had some cool patterns in it and I was able to play with some new beads that I have had for some time but never found a way to use them.  I decided that I was going to make the necklace in the colors of my favorite sports team.  The Chicago Blackhawks. I am really excited about this as it will be going along with something I am doing later on as well.  Check this out.


The pendant is called Sparkling Star Flower Pendant, and the necklace is my own design.  The pendant uses two-hole piggy beads, 4 mm bicones, super duos, and 11/0 seed beads.  My necklace used the same 11/0 seed beads, super duos, and bicones but I also added O beads.  I really love this necklace, it really pops out and I love that it reminds me of the Blackhawks.  What do you think?

Well, that is it for me for this week.  If you think that my inchie isn't so Ghastly and are interested in doing an inch of artwork using this years theme of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy then fly on over to EIM and check out the list!  It is a real blast!  If you feel that you would love more than an inch of fun every week then fly on over to 2x2x2 and check out the twinchies, a 2 inch piece of artwork, bimonthly challenge.  Or be a wild and crazy artist, and try both!  Until next week, have a blessed and creative week my friends.  

15 comments:

  1. The pendant is amazing and so is Ghastly. What great work you always do.

    Sorry about your Internet. I hope it is here to stay now.

    Love Chrissie xx

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  2. Love the necklace- the Ghastly is quite cute! Sounds like you have a gremlin, or two!
    Kurt is super adamant about keeping electronics cool, having grown up around room-size computers that needed super cold A/C for optimum performance. As he still has the original HP laptop I bought him in 2002, as an engagement present, and it still runs like a top, due to his super cooling with dual outside fans when being used (only for sound work and writing, now, as its internet capacities don't match the world, anymore). We have external fan cooling pads under our notebook computers, as well as those little metal round fans- about 6 inches across- on the side. We hardly ever hear the internal fans come on, which means they are staying nice and cool. We'd noticed our internet becoming slower (we're on satellite, with a modem for that, plus a wireless modem to serve the three stories-all of them almost 5 years constant service), so Kurt put fans on them. Voila! Back to fast. You might try one of these small fans- we get them at Walmart for $5. They come in purple, too LOL.

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    1. Thanks for the info, I did buy these fans that you can set your laptop on for each of us and no one would use them. My son actually used one of them as a fan near his head! But with the first modem melting we found out the hard way in the begining before it melted that it got hot and we needed to keep it on something so that it would get air around it lol

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  3. wow - I'd go crazy without the net for a week - right now my computer won't talk to my printer and that's driving me crazy. love that your ghastly - or is it gastly - is a little different - pays to hav children sometimes - I got my idea off the net - lovely necklace and great inchie

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    1. Thanks Kia, just between me and you if I did not have the net on my phone just to play Rummikub I think I would have gone bonkers!

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  4. I absolutely ADORE your necklace! You gotta share how you did that! I'm working on that pendant myself right now and will share as soon as I'm done. Have a great week!

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    1. Thanks! I really love the necklace myself. I cant wait to see your pendant!

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  5. I can empathize, dear Freebird, with computer woes. We live by our puters. Last week I had to break down and get a new printer/scanner, two weeks ago I had to fight with the cable provider as our internet service went from a snail's pace to running in place. Come to find out a new neighbor was kind of hogging the wires.
    Next time send the kids to the library for their internet fixes. But I'm glad they could offer a great suggestion for your Gastly. Love the sparkle. You should like this week's 2 x 2! And thanks for the advertising! CHeryl

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    1. And if Kia thinks it's beneficial to have kids around, I can send her a couple. Right after they get their passports! c

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    2. Thanks Cheryl. Always nice to have neighbors like that! I know what that kind of internet is like! Sheesh

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  6. Oh dear, computers are great when they work, but how many hours do we spend shouting at them!!. Love the inchie and necklace. It wasn't an easy word this week and you did it justice. Brilliant.

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    1. Thanks Wendy. I do tend to yell (only a bit) at my puter

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  7. Love the necklace and the Ghastly! Glad you're back online and tell us your story!

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    1. Thanks Wyvern! My story is a short boring one!

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