So, I've past the four hour mark still in the Pittsburgh airport and I am still looking at two more hours. One thing I can be thankful for, AIRPORT WiFi!
I didn't know that WiFi was so pervasive in so many settings now. I guess I am still used to the idea that the only place for free WiFi is your public library. The universities and colleges have it but it is usually password protected and it is not really free, your tuition is paying for it. Coffee Shops got it, but you have to buy something (and you don't want to be that jerk that gets a small peppermint tea and sips it for three hours).
I have wireless internet at my home, but currently it is on the fritz. My wireless router just up and broke last week leaving me with the only option to have to connect directly to my 50 ft. ethernet cable (glad I bought the extra long one from Amazon!). Comcast is sending me a new wireless modem, but who knows when that will get here.
The lack of wireless internet presented itself as a major problem the last few days when trying to prepare for my trip to Minneapolis. I needed to get some PDFs of some readings from my computer onto my iPad as I was not taking my laptop. I have gotten in the habit of using my DropBox to do all these file transfers, but the DropBox was useless without an internet connection. So, last night I drove around looking for truly free WiFi hotspots. Unfortunately, it was the Carnegie Library was close. Unfortunately, I had yet to set up my Pitt wireless on my iPad. Unfortunately, truly free WiFi is hard to come by. Finally, I ventured into a Crazy Mocha and became that person: I bought a small peppermint tea just to use the WiFi. To my credit, I was in there for less than three minutes!
Let's hope next time I am blogging it will be in the ice city of Minneapolis!
- Posted still in the Pittsburgh Airport using BlogPress from my iPad
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