Internet Connection

Do you know somebody who just thinks that they can do anything? No matter how hard the task? Well, I do...he's my older brother. He once took apart one of our old TV sets just to see if he could put it back together. I don't think its worked properly ever since. My brother's just one of those kids who is up for any challenge, no matter what it is, even if it's not for him. And if he doesn't get it right the first time, he'll keep at it until it works, or until it's impossible to fix anymore. (Like the TV set). Well, for the past week my internet connection has been all messed up, and normally I don't really mind because most of the time it gets fixed within the same day. Not this time. It's been a while since i've been able to do anything on the internet at home. (This is why i'm having to make up the last two blogs before this weeks). And it's all be cause of a 18 year old's passion for video games. My brother has this game that he likes to play online. Him and his friends are so into it that when they come over to hang out with him, that's all they do. They all huddle around the computer area to play. I don't understand how they could be entertained by a game for that long, I mean is it really that fun? But I guess I have no say in what I think about it until I've actually played the game for myself. But still? Anyway. This game of his. For some reason or another, to play the game with all of it's special features you have to connect it to something to make it work. (This would be a lot easier to explain if I knew all the technical terms, but I don't...sorry). It has to do with the internet connection, I know that much. Well, when he found out he had to connect it to whatever it is he had to connect it to, he decided he'd do it himself. Because that's the kind of kid he is, he likes to do things himself. So he went downstairs to the "connection box" (I wish I knew the name for it, but that's what we'll call it) to try to switch it so that his game would work. But he found that he needed a password. So without my parents permission, he secretly logged onto their computer and searched until he found what he needed. Once he got the password, he went back downstairs and started fittling around with things until he thought it worked. Once he realized that he had done something wrong he just decided to go put everything back where it was before. Well, when he switched everything the first time, he had messed up the internet connection somehow. When he tried to put everything back in order, he couldn't figure out how to get the internet working again. So he tried, and tried, and tried some more. It never worked, he was stumped. So when it was sunday afternoon, my time on the computer to get all my homework done -- the internet wasn't working. So I told my mom, and she told me she'd fix it in a minute. Well, she was preoccupied but when she finally went and fixed it later that night. We all realized something was wrong. We ended up somehow blaming my brother for it, and that's when he confessed. "I couldn't get it to work again, I was just trying to play my game." he said. This made my parents mad, especially when they found out he went searching on their computer for the password. Boy, was he is in trouble. I was mad at him because none of my homework got done that day, but i'm over it now. It's back and I'm liking it. So, my moral of this story is don't do things that you think you can do, it doesn't always work out in the end. Ü