So I've been dad-sitting -- that is, making sure my father eats and puts away the clean dishes correctly and has enough clean socks -- while my mother is away with new niece #1. And my parents have wifi, because my mom has a weakness for good deals, even though, yes, their single computer is wired and neither of them uses any sort of wireless device. But their wifi is just -- APPALLINGLY SLOW. I've been battling it out with the connection for almost 2 weeks now, hijacking the ADSL line for their digital TV so I have some sort of internet, if only for a six-foot radius around the cable line. This means my dad (over and over again) discovers that the TV 'isn't working' because I forgot to plug the ADSL TV cable back in, and -- well, this is the man who needs someone to monitor his sock usage, he can hardly be expected to remember to plug in the completely obvious cable that's hanging off the TV and hovering over the ADSL box on the floor, right?

Anyway, last night the internet quit entirely, so I trundled into the basement, located the wifi router, and unplugged it to reset it.

The wifi?

NOW WORKS. IT IS FAST AND USEFUL. NO MORE JACKING THE TV LINE WOOT.

Except, of course, I'm going back home tomorrow, and I'm spending all day today doing moving stuff.

Two weeks of pain for nothing, yo.