For Frak's sake!  You'd think we lived out in the middle of the frozen tundra or something!  But, in fact, we' just happen to be in the perfect storm of fuckery to not get high-speed internet. 
Our property literally borders an industrial park and the city limit on the North side of us.  A single tree-farm separates our properties from sub- ( Read more... )

I haven't updated my LJ lately... that tends to happen when you're reduced to 14.4k dial-up WHEN you can even connect to the remote server (gotta call the phone company today and finally get that fixed--for several years, there's been this droning humm on the line every other call.  Most times it goes away after hanging up and picking up again, or ( Read more... )