A little frustration

So I've pretty much been chillin this whole 3 day weekend, except for one helluva time yesterday. First Jin, Hitoshi, Tomoki, and I played a game of 2-on-2 soccer in which I wiped myself out after about an hour and a half. Then we went on a bike ride (first time I've ridden a bike in years) and went up and down hills, around the town, stopped at a convenience store, and then finally we were home.

As some of you may know, the new Mac OS, named Tiger, has come out. I use my iBook over here and I really wanted this major upgrade, so I bought it online. It will be here in a few days and it will be rendered pratically useless because my family has stopped the use of my computer to connect to their wireless internet. Allow me to explain. I have been hooking onto their wireless router and using their insanely fast DSL connection since the day I got here, the problem was that it would sometimes totally disconnect the internet from anyone's use every once in a while, but all you needed to do was power off and on the router and it'd be back up in no time. They told me today that I couldn't use it today because of this problem. I asked them why and they explained that there are two computers in the house and they signed up for a contract that would allow only two connections to the wireless router. Now somewhere in that contract part must be a lose end in translation. If my computer knowledge serves me, as long as you have a wireless router to the internet and you have a sufficient amount of ports (which they do mysteriously enough) it should work totally fine. What I think the problem is is that they have programmed this wireless router for two computers and either don't know or don't want to change that configuration. Controlling the amount of computers connected to a wireless router in one's own home is not possible, or if it is, not very highly advised, and I'm pretty sure they are just afraid something will go wrong if I connect with the router. So here I am typing on this crazy Japanese keyboard on a PC running WINDOZE (I can't stand it much longer) just so I can communicate with all of you. I'm meeting the AYUSA representative soon anyways and maybe she can translate more accurately.

Otherwise, I'm doing great! Just don't expect anymore pictures (that means zero) and no more timely responses to emails. I'm pretty sure I can still look at blogs through Bloglines, but not for very long. I've got to get this sorted out or else I'm not going to know what's happening in the world. I won't be able to watch the Daily Show anymore! Wish me luck.

Ja ne.