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15 April 2006 @ 12:01 am
No escape  
I borrowed my brother's laptop to use as a word processor in the hope of getting some job applications out during downtime in the meditation program. It's set up in my room. I brought my cell phone into the room to use it as an alarm clock.

Somewhat to my horror, they both seem to have connectivity. The phone company must have expanded their cell service in this area, and the meditation center staff's wireless network is unsecured.

I think I'm just going to close my web browser down and pretend like I don't have net access, and turn the cell phone's ringer off completely, because if I'm going to spend my time gweeping and chatting on a cell phone I might as well not come here in the first place.
 
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Flouncy Bouncy Buddha Grrl: willow_uhoh: foggi[info]buddhagrrl on April 17th, 2006 10:48 pm (UTC)
It's difficult to have it both ways - either you're completely cut off (which includes not doing outside work, etc) or you're not. Once you're not, it's not a big stretch to go from outside work to outside socialization and goofing around.

It was worse when they had a PC (reminded me of wedgeterms) in the living room, which I promptly downloaded PuTTY onto IIRC.

I would be a hypocrite to say put them in the trunk of your car, but I do wonder if the laptop has a setting somewhere to turn off the wireless card signal. Mine has a nice convenient button for that (eg for airplanes).

On the other hand, I hope you successfully cut yourself off and are totally unable to read this suggestion.

This from the girl who had Sandman comics mailed to her at Seminary.