My apologies to anyone with net-cop tendencies:
It's astonishing just how much I've grown to depend on network access. I've been having wireless problems in my office (in a detached building) for a couple of months, so I've been doing all my work from a laptop at my kitchen table. Given that we home-school, this has been a very distracting environment to try to work.
It's all sorted out now -- yippie! I have to organize 210 new-to- Thunderbird email messages, but I can get datasheets on the web, I can do my email, I can download programs and upgrade virus scans and all that cool stuff!
The down side (other than two months of awkwardness) is that I bought a router that I don't really need and wasted a bunch of time until I figured out it was the access point. The upside is that I now have wireless inside my shop building, for whatever good that'll do me.
Tee hee!