For my birthday the husband gave me the gift that keeps giving (and I don’t mean the headphones, though those are quite nice). I’m talking about upgraded DSL service. For the past four years I’ve suffered sluggish, sketchy service…speeds of only 256 Kbps, with weird restrictions (we could only be connected for two hours at a time before being booted off, and would have to wait five minutes before reconnecting, and the husband could only be connected through my machine, as the modem was incompatible with Linux) and I was paying a premium price for the privilege. We’d considered switching to Comcast, but the time I tried to follow through with that threat the cable guy didn’t bother to show up. It’s just as well. Last week the husband used some of his precious free time to boldly navigate the stormy seas of Qwest’s site. He went into information gathering mode, plunking the data into a spreadsheet and crunching his numbers before doing what he dreads most…getting on the horn with a human. But when he was through with them he’d reduced our monthly bill by $17 or so, and more than tripled our connection speed…to a service that will not disconnect every two hours, and is now networked such that he no longer needs my computer in order to be online with his (that might just lower our electricity bill as well). Go team!
In other news, I apologize for the lack of content lately. Life’s been busy, but thankfully it’s been a good sort of busy. Goofing off with the little man, reading, hanging out with friends and family, seeing three enjoyable movies in one week, getting started on the anniversary edition of the 26 things scavenger hunt. But the real world escapades may come to an end (or be somewhat curtailed). Now that the faster DSL is up and running I’m afraid my ass will find its way into this chair more often.
