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Sep. 1st, 2016 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckScott managed to dig up the account number for Comcast, so my laptop is now using that internet. Some parts of my phone are using it, and some aren’t. Specifically, Chrome on my phone can’t use the internet. Well, it kind of can. Comcast will demand that I sign in. I do and then can visit one webpage. When I try to visit a second page, Comcast demands that I verify the account again. Over and over and over. I tried restarting Chrome and then restarting my phone. No luck. I feel kind of like this is some sort of very mean cosmic joke.
Cordelia has just headed out with two friends. They’re in plenty of time to catch the bus they want because it’s three minutes from here to the stop. The bus won’t arrive for at least another ten minutes (about fifteen minutes after they actually left here). The main worry is the driver giving them a hard time about paying the under 18 fare. Cordelia has her student i.d. from last year, and it’s pretty silly to think she went from middle school last year to suddenly being done with high school, but some drivers enjoy petty power and being nasty.
We’ve got a mediocre family tracker app on our phones, so I can see that Cordelia’s at the bus stop now and will know when she starts moving from there. The app is frustrating because it considers anything within about three blocks of our house as the same as the person being at home. It is possible to get it to zoom in and show that Scott is at the science and nature center, for example, or that Cordelia is at school and on the playground, but I have to push for that information. The app is also apt to report us as in three quite different locations when we’re all in the car together. It can be a matter of a few feet or of many yards. I think that that is an artifact of us having different phones with different speeds for GPS processing.
And Cordelia’s on the bus. The bus goes out and back, so the absolute worst thing that can happen is that they miss their stop and have to get it on the way back.
Cordelia has just headed out with two friends. They’re in plenty of time to catch the bus they want because it’s three minutes from here to the stop. The bus won’t arrive for at least another ten minutes (about fifteen minutes after they actually left here). The main worry is the driver giving them a hard time about paying the under 18 fare. Cordelia has her student i.d. from last year, and it’s pretty silly to think she went from middle school last year to suddenly being done with high school, but some drivers enjoy petty power and being nasty.
We’ve got a mediocre family tracker app on our phones, so I can see that Cordelia’s at the bus stop now and will know when she starts moving from there. The app is frustrating because it considers anything within about three blocks of our house as the same as the person being at home. It is possible to get it to zoom in and show that Scott is at the science and nature center, for example, or that Cordelia is at school and on the playground, but I have to push for that information. The app is also apt to report us as in three quite different locations when we’re all in the car together. It can be a matter of a few feet or of many yards. I think that that is an artifact of us having different phones with different speeds for GPS processing.
And Cordelia’s on the bus. The bus goes out and back, so the absolute worst thing that can happen is that they miss their stop and have to get it on the way back.
