Meet Ruth. Laundry. 'puter clean/set-up. B-day party. Hay bales.

Meet Ruth. He's a, well, boy. I know that "Ruth" is typically a girls name, but he was named after a Pern Dragon, from the book series by Ann McCaffrey - The Dragon Riders of Pern (or something like that).

I don't really have time to be blogging this morning, I should be getting some laundry done. I've actually got a load in the washer that's ready to by hung out, but the weather is threatening rain. So, I should get it out now, so hopefully it'll dry before it rains - IF it rains. Plus I've got another basket full of dirty clothes that needs to be washed, etc.

And I also want to get a computer that's been sitting in my kids' closet for a couple of years now, cleaned. The reason it's in the closet is because the CPU had/has a tendency to overheat as soon as the temperature in the room reaches 75*F. However, we're going to be getting DSL on Tuesday, and I want to have a computer to surf the web with, besides this one (which my wife claims she's going to be on even more). So, I had my daughter clean her ex-bedroom upstairs yesterday. I am going to be putting the overheating 'puter up there where I can control the temp with the air-conditioner. That is IF it gets too warm up there this Fall/Winter, which it may or may not. Not sure how the DSL modem with wireless capability works though. Will I just be able to plug the upstairs computer into a phone-jack with a DSL filter on it, or will I need to get a wireless card/adapter for it first?

Then after all that, I need to get ready for a birthday party. It'll be this evening for the son of one of our friends. It's going to be a "Pirates of the Caribbean" theme-party. Should be fun. We'll be having cake, ice-cream, chips, and chili. Okay, I don't really know for sure about the cake and ice-cream, but am about the chips and chili. *grin*

The hay-bale guy up the road came yesterday and turned a buttload of grass into large, round bales of hay. About 10 of them I think. We want to talk to him and make sure we get at least one, so that we can use it as mulch on the garden areas.

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DSL for the Fringe-folk

Hey, guess what! We are scheduled to have DSL (256k) on-line next Tuesday - 10-16-07, in the morning). I am SO psyched!! A man from Centurytel came out this morning and checked our lines for noise, inside and outside of the house. Everything is fine, clear as bell. He asked Rain when he got here, "So, what's the problem with your DSL?" She said, "Um, we don't have DSL". Everyone asks that, though we've NEVER had it. Almost did once, but at the last minute were denied. He was surprised that we used to get 48 Kbps consistently for a few years, but we were, until I contacted customer support about not having DSL even though the technology has been here to extend it to us, for 6 years. And when I wouldn't take their pat answer, "There's no technology that we know of that can extend it far enough for you to get it", and told them of the technology, suddenly our connection speed plummeted, and the frequency of disconnects suddenly rose. But starting next Tuesday, we should be speeding along the super-highway with so many others. Can't wait! Or can just barely! Ya just have to talk to the right people I guess. I emailed the District Manager for SW. MO. and he thought that we should've had it by now, but looked into it. Perhaps they figured that I must REALLY want it, if I'm willing to go UP the chain of command. *grin* And I would've too, but I couldn't find the email address of the Centurytel CEO, who made 7 million dollars in 2006. But they couldn't afford to spend $700 dollars for an extender for my area? Anyway, that's all moot as of next! Frikkin! Tuesday! LOL.

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