I've been DSL-ed
We have officially joined the world of DSL.
And not a moment too soon. I have a work project and on-line volunteer project and all that other project crap that, okay, I agreed to do, but wouldn't we all rather sit on our butts on the couch watching the Olympics? Or, I guess, glide on the glider behind the couch, which I keep meaning to use, and have actually used. Twice.
The whole DSL installation thing wasn't that bad. We got a smallish carton in the mail with an installation disk and all kinds of other wires and boxes and whatever, all adorned with brightly colored ATTENTION labels to tell us to leave this on for 10 days or connect that to a surge connector and so on and so forth. And the very user-friendly animation told me exactly what to connect where, and while it was loading or checking or modifying or doing all of its busy busy things, I would help Avelino rearrange the living room around the dog crate.
Turns out Sasha is a fan of the dog crate (so long as it's not locked, of course). Her crate is now in the corner of the living room stuffed with all of her toys and a cushy pillow and covered with a thick fuzzy blanket, and I have to admit it does look like a tempting alternative to the couch, although if we leave the room we're just as likely to find her there (and then she will look at us guiltily and jump off to run into her crate). Max has officially checked out the crate, but is reluctant to go inside and seems to vastly prefer stretching out on our bed.
Anyway, back to the DSL. We have SBC , so we added on the Yahoo!/SBC DSL service, which will now come nicely bundled in our monthly phone bill. And that's exactly how they get you. But in this case, I don't mind so much being got.
And not a moment too soon. I have a work project and on-line volunteer project and all that other project crap that, okay, I agreed to do, but wouldn't we all rather sit on our butts on the couch watching the Olympics? Or, I guess, glide on the glider behind the couch, which I keep meaning to use, and have actually used. Twice.
The whole DSL installation thing wasn't that bad. We got a smallish carton in the mail with an installation disk and all kinds of other wires and boxes and whatever, all adorned with brightly colored ATTENTION labels to tell us to leave this on for 10 days or connect that to a surge connector and so on and so forth. And the very user-friendly animation told me exactly what to connect where, and while it was loading or checking or modifying or doing all of its busy busy things, I would help Avelino rearrange the living room around the dog crate.
Turns out Sasha is a fan of the dog crate (so long as it's not locked, of course). Her crate is now in the corner of the living room stuffed with all of her toys and a cushy pillow and covered with a thick fuzzy blanket, and I have to admit it does look like a tempting alternative to the couch, although if we leave the room we're just as likely to find her there (and then she will look at us guiltily and jump off to run into her crate). Max has officially checked out the crate, but is reluctant to go inside and seems to vastly prefer stretching out on our bed.
Anyway, back to the DSL. We have SBC , so we added on the Yahoo!/SBC DSL service, which will now come nicely bundled in our monthly phone bill. And that's exactly how they get you. But in this case, I don't mind so much being got.
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