{"id":2339,"date":"2024-02-06T21:17:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T05:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2024-02-11T09:35:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T17:35:02","slug":"internet-i-haz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/02\/06\/internet-i-haz\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet: I Haz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"995\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AEG-violet-bay-banner-of-20231220.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AEG-violet-bay-banner-of-20231220.jpg 995w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AEG-violet-bay-banner-of-20231220-300x73.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AEG-violet-bay-banner-of-20231220-768x186.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have gone without desktop internet access for about 15 days, and&#8230;  I know this isn&#8217;t a hardship to well-adjusted people, but <em>it was a mild hardship to me<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, moving my place of residence is DIFFICULT.  I couldn&#8217;t find any of the five kinds of coffee I had packed, AND I HAD NO INTERNET.  (I remain unworthy of your pity, despite this &#8211; these are the least of my problems, but the fun ones to complain about!)  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The five kinds of coffee I had to move:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Peet&#8217;s &#8211; Yosemite Dos Sierras<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Peet&#8217;s &#8211; Major Dickason&#8217;s Blend (a.k.a. Major Dick)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hawaiian Paradise &#8211; Volcano Roast (a lovely gift of Arabica &#8211; I love Hawaiian coffee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Philz Coffee &#8211; Philtered Soul <em>(I won this in an Xmas gift exchange, and if I had realized it had artificial hazelnut flavoring in it, I would have tried harder to swap it with something else)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Peet&#8217;s &#8211; Holiday Blend (in lovely packaging, as always).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>(No, I don&#8217;t have Peet&#8217;s Ethiopian Supernatural this year.  It was too&#8230; something two years ago, and it kind of put me off. Also, I have to get down to three types of coffee before I am allowed to buy more!)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Gripe: UNLIMITED CELLULAR INTERNET SHOULD MEAN UNLIMITED CELLULAR INTERNET.  If you have ever hit the arbitrary limit for this, you know what I&#8217;m griping about: my cellular provider slowed my cellular data to a crawl because I used enough of my data to get their attention for the first time ever.  I&#8217;ll switch carriers when I get my next [whatever smartphone devices are called by then].  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Internet is exciting: getting all of my household devices to talk to the new router is much less exciting.  <em>(My garage door opener required persuading, and I upset the spider that lives in the control panel!).<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The piles of boxes all around the house have been replaced by piles of things that were in boxes in two particular rooms.  I want to reestablish my household in a slightly modified way, but can&#8217;t move heavy things on my own, and am very tired after work. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Manga I hope to write about when publishing is complete (or I get to a good stopping point)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tappytoon.com\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Ashtarte<\/em> by SOON, Tappytoon Studio (ongoing) &#8211; child neglected by corrupt religious influence survives (ongoing)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway<\/em>, by Chacha Kim, Chokam, Cheong-gwa (ongoing) &#8211; dark second chance story set in imaginary imperial Spain<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Castle: Keeper of the Sacred Eye<\/em> by Jin Soye, hyeyong, pecan (just started) &#8211; contemporary imaginary Korean royalty battle evil spirits trapped in paintings through heterosexuality (this is an incorrect summary, but it is funny, so I am leaving it) (ongoing)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>How to Clear a Dating Sim as a Side Character <\/em>by Cherti, DALZO, Metal Kang (ongoing) &#8211; one of those waking up in a video game stories, but with system dialogues telling the heroine when she is winning the men over<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Viz Media\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>The King&#8217;s Beast <\/em>by Rei Toma &#8211; a beautifully drawn, Chinese costume drama where a member of the oppressed animal-eared group attempts to avenge her fraternal twin brother &#8211; the way the artist draws EYES is just so gorgeous!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Mao<\/em> by Rumiko Takahashi &#8211; an exorcist meets a girl who survived a freak accident, who may team up with him to beat evil spirits.  (It feels a lot like RIN-NE by the same author.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Yakuza Lover <\/em>by Nozomi Mino &#8211; a college girl falls in with a model-handsome, well-dressed criminal who is good in bed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon<\/em> by Takashi Shiina based on characters from Rumiko Takahashi: the next generation of the Inuyasha saga, in which the children of Inuyasha\/Kagome and Sesshomaru\/Rin team up to rescue the parents who lost them as infants.  (I couldn&#8217;t cope with the anime preview voices, but the manga isn&#8217;t bad!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I am sorting through my observations, and hope to get back to writing here soonish, but only if it doesn&#8217;t slow down my reading! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have gone without desktop internet access for about 15 days, and&#8230; I know this isn&#8217;t a hardship to well-adjusted people, but it was a mild hardship to me. Also, moving my place of residence is DIFFICULT. I couldn&#8217;t find any of the five kinds of coffee I had packed, AND I HAD NO INTERNET. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/02\/06\/internet-i-haz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Internet: I Haz&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,112],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-technology","tag-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}