Montana just sent ‘extreme southern Saskatchewan’ nasty cold rain. It is FREEZING out there. This is what a frozen transcriptionist looks like:
She is wearing two pairs of socks, leggings, a long heavy skirt, a long-sleeved tee-shirt, a fleece hoodie, a sweatshirt hoodie, and fingerless gloves! This is acceptable, even expected, attire for boondocking beween, say, November and May. It is NOT acceptable for the beginning of June!
(no, I do not normally dress to match the decor of my office)
Not only was there no internet this morning, I couldn’t even connect to the Mifi, which told me I was having Mifi problems more than internet problems. I yanked the battery from it and restarted about 10 times and then I could connect to it. But still no internet. So I went up the hill, and good thing I did because I just made the deadline to pick up a nice amount of work for today.
Back home, I again tried to connect. The weather is crappy yet again (could we please have some heat if not sun?), lots of thick clouds, so I was going to give up. Then I had an epiphany.
My signal strength has always been more decent lower to the ground than higher! I had a generally more decent signal with the stubby antenna stuck on the truck roof than I ever did with the big antenna as high up as it can go.
So I brought the antenna to almost ground level. It’s stuck to the top step of my magnetic step ladder. And I am online. It’s not a great connection, so no picture of the setup, but I may be able to send my project to the client without having to get back into the truck. And that’s enough to make me less cranky today.
I’m wondering if the power line could be causing some interference? Or maybe the line of sight is downwards?
In unrelated news, I got home from the hill to find a ginormous bright yellow bag on one of the chairs by the door. Inside, was deliciousness: a kazillion stalks of fresh rhubarb. I’m finishing this assignment, them I’m off to make compote!