Hi! I know it seems as though I've been slacking at my blogging at such an early stage...but I had a very, very good excuse. I moved over Easter weekend and only got my broadband connection hooked up today! So the only connection that I had was a work one or a dial up and I obviously was working far to hard to blog while I was at work and dial up was doing my head in it was that slow!
Which brings me to today's point!
10 years ago (or so) I remember moving into a basement suite with a friend and we had to wait soooooooo long to get our telephone connection sorted out. So for a month I was walking up the road to use the pay phone. When we moved over Easter weekend we got our telephone connection installed the very morning we moved in...this is the way it should be. But here is where they catch you.
In order to have broadband internet connected you need to have a "BT" telephone line hooked up. Unless you go with Cable but that's a whole other story that I'm not even going to get into!
So we ordered our BT line as you do when you move. That was installed the day (before, actually) we moved in. We then had to wait 48 hours before we were even able to order the broadband connection. Once ordered we then had to wait another 5 working days...and it was Easter...Grrrrr....that's a week and a half without a broadband connection!
It just seems that we now have to wait for our broadband connection the way we used to wait for our phone connection. At least the phone connection has come along some way in the past ten years. Too bad pretty much everyone and their brother has a mobile phone so the land line connection isn't as essential anymore.
Is it just me or does it seem like the world keeps holding back our essential services (thats right, a fast internet connection is essential!) just to make us appreciate them more once we get them back?
I sometimes wonder where this world is headed. Not in a bad sense...just in a curiosity sense. It wasn't so long ago that there was no electricity or cars and the thought of being able to talk to another person on the other side of the world without delay was unknown. We are so hungry for enhancing what we've got I just wonder if it'll ever end. What is the next big thing to come out...what will we "need" next?
Will we ever run out of new things to invent and discover?
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And we were all glad to see that you were working far too hard to write a blog
You know, i'm getting really sick of ALL service companies. Moving out to Oregon was rediculous, in all the essence of the word! We felt like we were dealing with high school drop outs that had no care in the world. We COULDN'T cancel our service with charter or qwest. They said yes, and no and yes. Nothing would get shut off, and we kept getting bills. Getting hooked up here was just as bad.
I'm giving up all sevices and becoming a hippie.
I am so glad you found my blog and it is good to see you are doing well. keep in touch.
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