The system is down
2025-Sep-15, Monday 16:38![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
Took Laila to Hebrew school yesterday, and afterwards we went to the Ravenswood Artwalk, which had been in the phone calendar for months but which I had totally forgotten about until I saw a poster that it was that weekend. ![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee drove down and met us nearby, and we walked along and looked at the booths. We didn't go into any of the studios to look at the art, since we thought that Laila wouldn't have a good time just being inside while I held her and we looked at art (or listened to music or whatever), so we just stayed outside, got some food at the food trucks--I got a brisket sando, sashagee got mac and cheese, and we got Laila some empanadas. We asked her which one she wanted and she said "beef" and when we told her we'd get her a beef one but which other one did she want, she said..."Beef."
We got her a beef and a sweet corn one. She barely ate any, but at Hebrew School she had three mikans, a handful of grapes, half an apple, and some pomegranate seeds already so I'm not surprised she wasn't that hungry. She'll probably eat the rest at dinner anyway.
The reason I'm making this post, though, is because when we got back from all of that the internet was down. Alright, fine, I called in and they said there was an outage, but I can tether things through my phone, so I tethered my iPad to my phone and played games with Laila. And then I called at 3 p.m., and at 5:30 p.m., and then aftersashagee left for a birthday party at 6:30 p.m. the internet was still down. I told Laila that the TV was broken and she accepted it, especially when we were still able to watch Bluey on the tethered iPad, and I put her to bed and went to bed early. At 9:30 p.m. the internet was still out, but at least at that point when I called the support person told me that the problem was a cut fiberoptic line and that's why it was taking so long to fix.
At 11:30 p.m., before I called again, I decided to get on the wifi and found that it worked. I went and checked on Laila and she had fallen out of her bed onto the squishmallow on the floor and was still fast asleep. I picked her up, put her back into bed, kissed her on the forehead, and went to sleep.
sashagee drove down and met us nearby, and we walked along and looked at the booths. We didn't go into any of the studios to look at the art, since we thought that Laila wouldn't have a good time just being inside while I held her and we looked at art (or listened to music or whatever), so we just stayed outside, got some food at the food trucks--I got a brisket sando, sashagee got mac and cheese, and we got Laila some empanadas. We asked her which one she wanted and she said "beef" and when we told her we'd get her a beef one but which other one did she want, she said..."Beef."We got her a beef and a sweet corn one. She barely ate any, but at Hebrew School she had three mikans, a handful of grapes, half an apple, and some pomegranate seeds already so I'm not surprised she wasn't that hungry. She'll probably eat the rest at dinner anyway.
The reason I'm making this post, though, is because when we got back from all of that the internet was down. Alright, fine, I called in and they said there was an outage, but I can tether things through my phone, so I tethered my iPad to my phone and played games with Laila. And then I called at 3 p.m., and at 5:30 p.m., and then after
sashagee left for a birthday party at 6:30 p.m. the internet was still down. I told Laila that the TV was broken and she accepted it, especially when we were still able to watch Bluey on the tethered iPad, and I put her to bed and went to bed early. At 9:30 p.m. the internet was still out, but at least at that point when I called the support person told me that the problem was a cut fiberoptic line and that's why it was taking so long to fix. At 11:30 p.m., before I called again, I decided to get on the wifi and found that it worked. I went and checked on Laila and she had fallen out of her bed onto the squishmallow on the floor and was still fast asleep. I picked her up, put her back into bed, kissed her on the forehead, and went to sleep.
