The Hubby was excited toget toknow oneof my “cyber-friends”too.

:)

DSL update: the line is supposed to be done by Tuesday, whence AT&T will ship out the installation kit. So I’ll be going broadband soon. (And considering the connection that this post is being composed on is 19 kbps, it won’t be a moment too soon.

Kirk–who today is “btdvi”, which sounds like someting you’d look at whiler waiting at a proctoligist’s office

Kirk from beautiful downtown Dry Heat, Arizona (which–as everybody knows–is a suburb of Tortilla Flat…)

Trying to deal with tech support is about as enjoyable as having root canal work done without benefit of novaciane or nitrous oxide, and slightly more fun that watching an endless run of repeats of “The Donnie and Marie Show.” (If you didn’t have diabetes before watching those two members of the most famous family to come out of Utah after Brigham Young’s, you’d be in dire need of a large hypo needle of insulin afterwards–preferrably mainlined!)

You have to explain your problem to somebody who speaks a different language than you do. (Geeks are heavy into jargon–even more than politicians and /or farmers. I know this because I had to room with several computer science majors when I went to NAU in the mid-80s.) Probably you’ll get somebody who does speak English, but with an accent so thick that you know he’s located in downtown Mumbai (formerly Bombay), which means not only is he perturbed about your problem (which he doesn’t give a rodent’s behind about anyway), but he’s hacked off that you’ve called him at 3:00 in the morning, his time!

I am in the process of getting DSL from Automatic Towels & Toilets. Here in Mesa, AZ, USofA, you have three choices for land line phone service: Qwest (whose motto–Spirit of Service–translates into the approate acronym–S.O.S.), AT&T or Cox Cable, the local cable TV provider for most of the Phoenix area. Since neither of these companies is noted for quality, AT&T is the lesser of three evils, so to speak.

Recently, my connections (I have two ISPs–PeoplePC, whom I bought the computer from, and which comes with 4 years of internet service, and KOA Konnect which I use most of the time since PeoplePc pissed me off with lousy service) became glacially slow–usually around 19-24 kbps on a 56k modem. (This blog takes nearly five minutes to load, even after I had Firefox AdBlock most of the silly stuff on the side). So I’m biting the bullet and going broadband (since I finally got my car paid off, I can spare the cash) and dropping KOA Konnect (which never bothered to answer my tech support e-mails at all). I’ll keep PeoplePC until the contract runs out (since it’s the address I use when I’m asked for a e-mail address–so all the spam goes there). When the move is finalized, Moos, I’ll send you an e-mail from the new address.

Kirk (who got his T-II diabetes the old fashioned way–cuisine de junque washed down with massive amounts of Pepsi Cola)