They Might Be Giants, for the last year or more, have been performing their first album as a live show. Now they're offering the live version of this album as a free download. I received this news just as I was about to use up my monthly data allowance. I thought I might get in under the wire. I thought wrong.
Shortly after I started my seven-minute download, I got the push notification on the phone that I had used up my 3 gigs, and my 7 minutes suddenly became a half hour. Then an hour. Then an hour and a half. Then the laptop went to sleep (You've heard that about me, haven't you?) and the phone no longer had anything connected to its hot spot. So I changed the laptops setting so it would never go to sleep when plugged in and there was still an hour on the download. A half hour later, I checked whether Harry wanted to come back in (he did) and also checked the download. It had failed.
Why not just use the phone? A) because I needed an email address and I don't know how to get email on the phone and B) because They Might Be Giants said not to, and I'm very obedient. I get fast internet again in a week so I should be able to get the download then no problem. Or I can take the laptop to Lowman Home and borrow their WiFi tomorrow. I probably wouldn't have mentioned it at all except that it took so freaking long that it's now too late for me to think clearly enough to write anything clever. Oh and in hopes that everybody will go get TMBG's first album live downloaded for free. Just don't do it when your data allowance has run out. Believe me!
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