Stooodent

Hi,

 

Am now back online again after some days outage caused by my foreign student pestering me for internet access.  I felt obliged cause i messed up the evening before and was really ill and being sick, i was unsure if she even ate the dinner i had cooked, i know i hadnt so i for some reason felt guilty.  Anyway, after not feeling great for most of the Monday i got home, gave her a username and password and she was not able to access it, so, thinking i may have secured my LAN i made a change on my router and just as i hit the apply button i knew it was a mistake! 

 

For some twatish reason, my router allowed me to place it onto a subnet mask of 255.255.255.255, this meant it went invisable to my network and i couldnt get it back again as you cant set a PC to such a silly subnet.  i then tried default resets and no, it seems like a turkey at christmas, grrrrr! So, my act of kindness bit me back and has meant i have had to buy a new router cause its quicker than arsing around trying to get the 5 year reliable one sorted, pooooo! 

 

Ah well, shall now try and use my various bits to keep a student LAN seperate to my LAN and throttle it cause i dont want high charges running up.

 

I dont really like Students being with me, the first one, Dilka (Turkish), was only for 4 days as she was awaiting starting a new job and i did that cause i had to try it cause i knew it would be weird.  Then, my 1st student proper, Victoria (Spanish) was with me for 4 weeks, she was great.  She was a real nice person, smart, caring and was out an awful lot, i saw her once i got home until about 30mins of dinner, this meant about 1hr to 1hr30 every day and i enjoyed the thought of trying to make her like her stay.  Currently, my 3rd, Umay (Turkish) is ok but i havent taken to her.  It could be a Turkish/Culture thing, it could be me adjusting to differant people, it could be because Umay originally came round and introduced herself to Victoria which upset her and then came back another night prior to moving in and letting herself in as the front door didnt appear to be shut properly. I think that all got my back up to begin with and its been an uphill struggle for Umay since then.

 

The reason i have students staying is because of financial pressures fundamentally.  The years of spending on my health issus have caught up with me, i am being squeezed so much i sought advice, have stopped paying credit cards and offered final settlements, fuel gone up loads, mortgage rates gone up so high after a fixed low period, financial problems in the economy so there are less people around to buy my house and ones that do want to buy seem unable to borrow.  I am basically stuck here until things change so to help make the money up its a student to ease the strain.  All pros and cons of course, its my home being shared and i have developed a natural resistance to this after living alone so long (hope it changes) but its gotta be better than getting a Saturday/Weekend job and trying to scrape the money together and be really really run down which then affects my weekday job.

 

Shall try to keep the student thing going as long as possible, its gotta be me as they arent unpleasant as they wanna be liked and learn, i gotta try harder.

 

Have a nice weekend