I'm afraid this might take too much exposition to be funny, and/or not be funny to the tech-savvy among you, but it was VERY funny to me, so I am going to try anyway. Alan's mobile ringtone is the sound of an old-school dialup modem trying to connect: whizWHIIIIIIIINEstaticcccccccccccwhizWHIIIIIIIINEmorestatic - you know what I'm talking 'bout. Tonight he is working late/working from home so he's in the study being busily technical and so I fetched my laptop, brought it up front to check blogs, icanhascheezburger, catch up on the world and so forth. I took a break to cook dinner at which point I closed my laptop so it was 'asleep', not off - then when I got dinner almost ready, he was on a Very Important Highly Technical call so he asked if I could delay serving for a bit.

I could, not a big deal, but after I did what was necessary to hold dinner I got my laptop back out and couldn't reach the intarweb. None of the wireless connections were working and it was saying that there were no wireless networks within range - not so, there's ours and usually I can see two more, though I don't access our poor n00b neighbors who don't protect their routers. So I powered down and rebooted, still nothing. I didn't want to bother him, still hard at work doing complex DNS server thingies, so I clicked "repair network". About a nanosecond after I told my laptop to repair the network, his cell phone went off in the back of the house and I jumped about 8 inches off the couch in terror! My computer was rocking it old school! I was disturbing The Husband at work! But even worse, the calls were coming from inside the house! OH NOES!!! My laptop magically found our wireless connection and and happily Firefoxed me at precisely the moment the noise ceased. I was trying to work out in my IT-deficient mind what the hell had just happend, when whoever called him called him again mere seconds later, terrifying me anew, causing another couch-leap and making me think I'd broken our whole network.

Yeah, I'm a lame-o luser.