Friday, October 26

We have DSL! Weather. Email problems. Lost friends

Good afternoon ladies, gentlemen, and whoever else is reading this. It's good to "see" you again. How've you been? I've been pretty good, much better since yesterday morning when our DSL was FINALLY complete and we were on the Internet at high-speed (1.5 Mbps)! WOO-HOO! Spent almost all afternoon and evening on the other computer downloading all kinds of updates to programs that hadn't been updated for a couple of years (that PC was in the closet because with only one computer at a time being able to connect to the Internet, there was no reason to have it set up). And you know why they couldn't get us DSL last week? They had installed the AdrenaLine Repeater but couldn't get the DSL signal to come all the way here. Know how they fixed the "problem"? They took the repeater OUT of the line, and we then got DSL. Meaning we COULD'VE had it for several years had they just CHECKED to see if we could. *sigh*

The weather has been cooler than usual. Meaning that the up until just a couple of days ago the highs were in the 60's and 70's (F). But the last couple we've been lucky to get into the 50's, usually the high 40's. Hasn't been quite cold enough to start a fire, but it's getting close, and if it continues to be cool outside, the inside of the house will eventually get cooler and stay cooler. Once the temp inside has trouble getting over 70 and staying there, then we'll start a fire.

Other than that, not much else happening. Just been enjoying the high-speed. The kids really like it because no they can actually load and watch their YouTube videos without having to wait HOURS for them to load. In fact, my son watched several of them this morning (between midnite and 7 a.m.) instead of sleeping, which he's doing now. He's definitely our little night owl! Which is fine, every family needs one, right?

The only thing that we can't seem to figure out is why this computer will not download email using Outlook Express or Thunderbird 2. I spent 2 hours on the phone with a Centurytel technician, and solved nothing. The other computer which has all the same programs and is also XP Home Edition, SP2, downloads and sends email just fine using O.E., but T2 doesn't work on it either. No clue how to make this computer do it with either though. We can still download blogs on this computer, and Rain doesn't mind using webmail, so we'll just have to cope until someone (or me) figures it out.

I called one of our friends yesterday to say, "Hey, I'm talking to you on the phone AND surfing the web!", but unfortunately I got a message saying their phone had been disconnected and is no longer in service. I have no other way, other than the email I sent them, to get a hold of them without driving for two hours to visit.

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