Foiled again!

Last Friday was supposed the day of my great big blog catch up. Joe was scheduled for kidney-stone blasting and I was looking forward to a few hours alone in the waiting room with my laptop and all the pictures on my camera from the last month.

Not that I was looking forward to the blasting for Joe.

Just the uninterrupted time. By myself. Not in my house. With nothing to clean, or laundry to fold, or children to watch, or episodes of Pawn Stars crying for my attention.

I mentioned this to Joe and I think he was a bit taken aback by the fact that I was slightly excited about the prospect of sitting in the waiting room while he had 3,000 shocks or sound waves or whatever it is that lithotripsy does delivered to his abdomen.

If I get that excited about 2 hours of free time, I guess I could go ahead and get a babysitter every once in a while.

It would be cheaper than this option.

And a lot less painful for my husband.

But anyway - that great big blog catch up never happened because they called the day before (I guess that would be Thursday) to inform Joe that somehow the lithotripsy machine had been overbooked and he would have to wait until Tuesday to have it done.

So there I was today - power cord plugged into the waiting room wall, anticipating hours of uploading - when I discovered my plans were foiled again.

I started out on the hospital wi-fi checking email and clicked through to try and read a comment on my facebook profile when I was redirected to a message that informed me that the content I wanted to look at was blocked.

I thought it had to be a mistake and tried to log in to FB directly and again received the message, this time reading the entire thing to see that social networking sites were blocked.

(Seriously?! We were just here in December...and October before that....and FB worked then!)

(Yes - this is the third blasting in 8 months. He had 22 stones total. Today the surviving 8 on the right side got done. But there are still 2 left on the left....)

That's ok. Didn't need to be distracted by FB anyway. So I typed in my blog address......

and got another message telling me that blogs were blocked.

Why do they even have wi-fi? What else could anyone want to do on the internet other than FB and blog-reading?

So much for my grand 2 hours alone.

Now my sisters-in-law are forced to go another day without new pictures of their favorite Sam and Sadie.

And I was forced to spend 2 hours reading year-old large-print Reader's Digests and salivating over dessert recipes from last August in Women's Day.

Though I did have a lot more fun than Joe did.