A Mommy Story

I’ve been having sporadic internet service the past few days, making reading blogs and posting difficult. My suspicions first fell on our internet provider – Time Warner has been nothing but unreliable in service, but for this particular problem I think they’re not to blame, amazingly.

We’ve narrowed the problem down to our four year old wireless router, which in networking years is practically an ancient relic. I think it’s time to put it out of its misery and look into replacing the router tomorrow.

Or I could always call in my pint-sized electronics guru to fix it. At 14 months she can already open a new browser window, switch users, shut down a computer, eject a CD, run a virus updater, turn on closed captioning and change channels on the TV, record a program on Tivo, and make a phone call.

If it’s electronic, it has to be hidden or Mira will go for it the second we look away. We bought her a laptop of her own in the hopes that she’d leave ours alone. No dice – she still thinks our laptops are better.

Maybe I’ll give her the old router?