Tipsy travels and technical troubles
Sunday, July 29, 2007
It's been a little over a week since I started my cross-country travels, and I'm happy to be back home safe and sound. Here's the quick list of cities and activities along the way:
- 7/20 Detroit for my niece Katie's solo in Kid's on Broadway.
- 7/21-23 San Diego, boating and visiting with family in the most perfect city ever!
- 7/23-26 Minneapolis to plan an upcoming Artistry Video shoot and finish up with a No-Tox Video.
- 7/27 Detroit for my other niece, Keely, who had a showing at Cranbrook for her Fashion Accessory Course.
While there's plenty to share about all of my stops, I need to post an immediate apology or perhaps correction is more appropriate. In my post titled When the going gets tough... I commented that I didn't understand why hotels try to charge for wireless connections in guest rooms. Now I know!
On my stop in Minneapolis I was so excited to find that my room was ready to go with "free" wireless connectivity. I followed the instructions and was connected in no time, but I was a bit weary that the wireless network was classified as "unsecure." I figured it had to be okay since it was the network that the hotel was telling guests to connect to but I probably should have trusted my gut. You'd think after the past few months I'd know that!
Anyway, after logging on the first time, I wasn't able to send any email out ... odd. The second time I logged on, I wasn't going to be doing anything. I started getting error messages about strange files and websites, etc. Then my computer was trying to add new software!!! I was freaking out and shutting things down as quickly as I could. Needless to say I didn't use the free wireless hook up for the remainder of the trip and was quite certain that I probably lost everything on my laptop. I'm glad I was wrong about that. Back at home with my "secure" wireless, things seem to be okay on the surface, but I'll certainly be checking in with IT tomorrow. The moral of the story, I would have been happy to pay the extra $10 a day to know that I was signing in with a password to a network that was actually secure... Live and learn I suppose.