Ejovi Nuwere

My birthday was last Friday (27th). It was uneventful. I lost my apartment keys in Hawaii so I had to spend the weekend in my grandmothers house sleeping on the inflatable mattress. She doesn’t have wireless internet access. I would have setup a wireless router but they are using AOL and you need to have the AOL software installed, I’m not even sure you can setup a wireless router on the AOL cable service. Anyway, the point was I spent a lot of time sleeping trying to get back on east coast time and searching for internet access.

I found a McDonalds near my grandmothers house (this is in Queens, NY) that had a “We support wireless Internet” sign on the front do. I went into McDonalds and asked the woman behind the counter “what do I need to do to connect to the wireless network?” She made a really strange face and asked me “Wire what?” “Internet, wireless internet, you know the thing you have advertised on the door?” “What? We have wireless internet? Jim, you know anything about the internet? No body told me” Jim: Oh yeah, you know those phone jacks, if you look around we have some phone jacks on the wall, you never seen that? Its the internet!

In the end I ordered Apple pies and found the wireless network but no one could give me a access code to actually use it. So I just ate my apple pie while staring at the computer screen. I looked really out of place.

On my birthday I went to a night club to celebrate with my uncle. We ordered a bottle of champaigne, it came with strawberrys and I spent some of the night convincing women to join me for a slice of strawberry. It works really well. Maybe next time I will sneak the strawberrys into the club.

Eventually I managed to track down my apartment building manager (for a building manager he is rarely ever in the building) and get copies of my apartment keys. Then it was back to life as normal.

Some people complain I don’t blog enough about my personal life, there you go! Eating strawberrys in the back of the club and sleeping on my grandmothers inflatable bed while searching for wireless internet access in Queens, NY. What were you expecting?

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