The rooms we stayed in were supposed to have wireless internet access. They did not. There were hotspots in the resort where we vacationed with my husband's family instead. Not all of those hotspots would actually connect to the internet without knowing the secret handshake. Turns out….nobody knew the secret handshake but at random times you could connect and thus encourage others around you to waste hours on end trying to discover the secret handshake for themselves. When I was in psych 101 in college I learned that there was some kind of name for this sort of reinforcement technique…..random vs predictable reinforcement but I don't remember the name….and how random reinforcement tended to increase persistence in test subjects. It works. I spent a good three hours one afternoon before I noticed that I was starting to grow whiskers that looked remarkably like a laboratory rat's.

Once I got the internet access difficulty ironed out, by walking a very long way to a hotspot that actually allowed internet access, I discovered that more often than not I did not have my computer. Why is that you ask? Well my husband, on the flimsy excuse that he needed to submit some invoices and reports so that we could get paid next month, hijacked my computer. Not only did my husband do that, but it clearly runs in the family because my computer was also hijacked by my brother-in-law and I even saw it in use by my mother-in-law and father-in-law and they don't even use their OWN computers.