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I had hoped to do a more positive post (or even just the June round up thing) but I’m just so annoyed.

So Friday night the internet started doing its usual flicking thing. It would lose connection at various points, usually just for a few minutes at most but it was persistent. I lost count after 5 times, but it was probably closer to 10.

It seemed fine Saturday morning and then we went out to town to see Indiana Jones (thoughts on that in another post maybe, but only spoiler free).

Then when I came back the net seemed fine…. Until later in the night when it happened again. This time each disconnection lasted longer and there was about close to 10 again. I had been watching at steam but it quickly became unwatchable and I ended up putting on a who audio I had downloaded before sleeping.

This morning again it seemed to be fine, but I made sure to post a message on the dnd discord just in case I lost connection.

Of course as soon as I did the connection went again only not for a few minutes. No, this time the net was down for over FOUR HOURS. It’s so frustrating especially because it made me miss the whole thing (I feel so bad about that) and I am just…. Ugh.

I’d been connecting talktalk back and forth since it first happened, but predictably they’re being no help. Apparently they have detected a fault, but refuse to book one unless we call up (which because it’s Sunday we can’t do until tomorrow) and it feels like we’re going nowhere. I don’t have optimism that calling will even help but I guess we’ll have to try.

It’s so irritating.

I wonder if today’s long disconnection was to do with a mysterious call mum had earlier, saying there might be a power cut in the area. The power didn’t go here but maybe it went at some local station necessary for the net? I dunno. If that was the case why didn’t they just say that?

It’s just so tiring and feels like a fitting end to a week that’s felt partially cursed.

Hopefully this coming week is better (or at least the net stays stable).

In the meantime I’m finishing off Star Trek Nemesis (because it’s on tv and I’d not watched in awhile) and then we’ll see.

June Monthly Roundup

June

Fics wrote: -
Books read: The Quest For Planet X(started)
Games done: The Chant
Podcast: spirit box radio: a thing that shivers,burger van, Innocents, Testimonial, Door, spirit box radio errant announcement kaleidoscope edition: q &a with pippin, Pippin Reads ancient tumblr posts, recaps 4 ways! (Kitty, Anna and Oliver’s pov plus speed recap), Spirit Box Radio: Enlightenment, Solipsism, Tollbooth, Indolence, New Great Experience, Enigma, Dalliance, Twig Lady, Over And Over, Eudemonism, Nevertheless, Ding Dong, Total Eclipse Of The Start, Harmonious, Errant
Who audios: Nightmare Country, The Paternoster Gang: Heritage 1: The Cars That Ate London!
Comics read: -
Graphic novels read: -

Things watched
Amazon Prime: The Mummy, The Mummy Returns
Blu Ray: Spiderman Into The Spiderverse
Disney+: Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, Star Wars Visions: Journey To The Dark Head, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, Bob’s Burgers: Boyz 4 Men
Netflix: Voyager: Drone, Extreme Risk
Shudder: -
YouTube: Mystery Files: The Horrifying Killings Of El Chupacabra, Kill The Lights Broken Bones video, Sleep Token Chokehold video, sam and Colby: the most demonic house in England (w/ tommyinnit & jack), Jago I let subscribers dress me for 24 hours, So Long video, Sorry boys trailer, watcher: the strange disappearance of the leatherman, Genshin version 3.8 special program, Until I End Up Dead music video, vidcon: dream team panel, banter live, generation loss how it happened, Watcher Mystery Files:The Apocalyptic Sounds Heard Around The World, Annapurna interactive showcase 2023, Tommy 365 days without Technoblade
Cinema: -

Monthly round up post time!

Again there’s been no fic, which is kinda bleh but I did end up starting something (again) so we’ll see if that goes anywhere or if I become blocked.

At least this month I did finish a game, with The Chant. Like I’ve mentioned it’s a solid 7/10 and I hope the studio do more.

I listened to a lot of Spirit Box Radio because I got so into it, especially with the appearance of Oliver at last.

Alas this last week (when I planned to read a graphic novel, comics and watch stuff on shudder was plagued with issues so I didn’t do any of them. I also didn’t do much of anything else (apart from finishing The Chant) which has been an annoyance. I’m hoping July will go better and the issues of today aren’t symptomatic of the month as a whole.

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Yesterday after making the post we went to town to see Indiana Jones and the trip ended up being oddly tiring despite us not doing too much, which is kinda… baffling. It’s not as if we went everywhere or got bags of stuff but we were both tired.

(All I got was a magazine, a book from The works sale and some nanoblock from game, hardly heavy stuff)

Also McDonald’s was kinda… lacking (other than the mozzarella bites and fries, whenever they have cheese things it’s always so good). So if we go again I think we might skip that. Not that there’s any films I wanna see till October (unless I do decide to go to a late spiderverse showing)

Brief thoughts on Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny under the cut (I’ll keep it spoiler free as possible).

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