Laptoptrouble!

Yesterday my laptop and I had some arguments. It was nearly transformed to a streettop, but common sense and a great doses of self-restraint kept me from throwing it through the window. Actually it's not the laptop's fault. It has issues with the internet connection. We have a wireless internet thingy, but due to the strange lay-out of our house, the connection isn't great everywhere. That is an understatement. In lots of places in our house internet connection is non-existent. No internet, nada, noppes, nothing! In some places there is a connection, but not always. Bit of a gamble. Will the blue ball appear on the bottom of my screen, indicating that we have lift-off? Or will it not. Oh, what an exciting life I lead. The best chance of the blue ball appearing, I have in the Office, where the mothership of the wireless connection is housed, but I don't like sitting there. That's hubs's territory and he isn't there very often, always off to his clients. And I don't like sitting there alone. I like being at home, surrounded by the dogs, cats and bathroompeople. I'm getting quite attached to the bathroompeople. Maybe I will even miss them when the bathroom is ready. Or maybe not. A good chance of my laptop connecting to the internet I have at the desk in the Great Hall, which is also my 'office', but Great Hall sounds better don't you think? But the Great Hall has been taken over by the bathroompeople. It's not mine anymore. So I moved to the livingroom. The diningroomtable proved to be a good place for the blue ball to appear. If my laptop is placed precisely in this corner and at that angle, internet connection is almost always present. Almost always. Somewhere in the neighbourhood (some of you write neighbor and some write neighbour. Is that a British/American/Australian thing?) someone has a wireless internet thingy with another provider. And their signal is stronger than ours (sure it is, why should we have chosen the best provider for once?). So if they log on, my laptop immediately wants to go over to their provider. But it can't. Still, it desperately wants to. So, it disconnects from our wireless thingy and keeps trying to connect to the other one. And I don't know how to stop that. Let me tell you, it's frustrating as.....something that is VERY frustrating! Today it's okay. I can see the blue ball all the time. I'm happy today. The neighbours are not internetting today I guess. Yesterday really was a terrible day at the internetfront. And every time I'd typed a very interesting and funny and intelligent comment to someone else's post and hit the 'publish' or 'submit'-button, PLOP! the box telling me there wasn't an internet connection anymore popped up and the blue ball became a red cross! Every time! Clever comment gone! Anyway, just to let you know that I really tried to visit everybody who posted something yesterday that I knew of, and I tried to comment, but that is why lots of you missed my very entertaining (or not as the case may be) visits. Sorry!