Went fishing with Dave yesterday, and I got skunked again! I did manage to catch a really nice sunburn. Like the dumbass that I am, I spent 6 hours in the sun and didn’t use any sunscreen. So my entire face and neck is beet red. And boy does it hurt.

Dave caught some nice bass, I’ll post pics in a bit.

I’m sure I would have caught SOMETHING if we didn’t have to cut our trip short. I started to feel a little woozy, vomity so we headed in.

Last night I passed out as soon as I got home, at 7:30. I slept until 7:30 this morning. 12 hours? Hope I’m not getting sick. In 1 week I’m supposed to be a Jimmy’s ranch for the opening day of hunting.

Friday I got so tired I couldn’t stay awake any longer–it was only 4pm. I slept until midnight. When I woke up I found myself wishing I lived in a 24 hour town, like Vegas or something. I don’t think Hayward even has a 24 hour cafe. Anyway…

I waited until dawn, then I got cleaned up and went down to Starbucks. I brought my laptop with me, hoping they’d have Internet. I think most have T-mobile Hotspots now. But I’ve never used it so I wouldn’t know. Anyway…

Turns out they do indeed have the T-mobile Hotspot thingy. I was handed a brochure. I read. What the fuck is this bullshit?

Check out these prices:
1 day = $10
Month to month = $40 per month
Month to month with a 1 year contract = $30 per month
Pay as you go = $6 per login good for one hour, $0.10 per minute after that.

Is that not ridiculous? Cable and DSL is cheaper than this.

So I sit there, thinking about which plan won’t hurt the most. I rarely take my laptop to Starbucks to hang out, so none of these plans make sense to me.

I turn on the laptop and it starts to roam. It finds like 8 networks, no shit. 3 of them are wide fucking open.

I shrug. Ah what the hell? I pick the one with the best signal and… I’m in! What a great signal it was too, very good connection, great speeds. I surfed the web and even played a little Diablo2 on Battlenet. I downloaded a couple movie clips just to see how fast it was–it was fast.

Fuck Starbucks and T-mobile. Just for fun I tried the other 2 wide open networks. I was able to surf just fine. I wonder if these people know that their WAPs are wide open to the public?

Better yet, I wonder if Starbucks and/or T-mobile know that savvy users are logging into free wireless access points and taking business away from them?

Ha HA! Power to the people! Free the Internet!

[edit]
So. What do you guys think? Was I stealing those people’s bandwidth? I mean, their WAPs were wide open, no encryption, no passwords, nothin’. They have to know that people are using their connection… So was what I did, wrong? And also, was it wrong to circumvent the Starbucks T-mobile wireless Internet connection scam? Am I obligated to use their network if I’m sitting in their cafe?

Slept ’til 2pm. Woke up, called Dave. Left. Met Dave at his house at 4pm. Fished until dark, went back to his house. Ate lasagna and watched surfing movies. Drove home.

Midnight. Drove to the gym. Where the fuck did all these people come from? Like, 30 people in the gym at midnight on a Wednesday? WTF? Workout, shower, come home.

Eat cold BBQ chicken at 3 in the morning. Listen to the new 311 bootleg I downloaded. Bored. Numb.

Bed.