thirty-eight days
the countdown is on... 38 days to the Red Sox opening day!
things are always very exciting as spring approaches, buses full of baseball players arriving in florida to get conditioned and ready for the season, new players to get to know, sometimes new haircuts on old friends. three years ago, johnny damon showed up with his beard and long hair, last year manny showed up with his long dreads.
this year we have no manny (so far) and we have the circus surrounding dice-k. i think it's looking to be a good year for our sox. let's hope so!
right now, though, lexi is probably very happy that there are no sports on. i mean, basketball and hockey are on, but i don't watch basketball and i haven't been following hockey lately. i never followed it all that much anyway, but i'd keep an eye on stuff and at least catch some bits of games here and there. but studio stuff has been so busy anyway, so i've not been spending too much time by the tv unless we're watching something together or, more rare of late, i'm playing a videogame.
anyway... in other news, we've been having internet issues for the last week or so. our DSL has been not quite up-to-speed lately, anyway, but we've been getting by alright. but since this past weekend we'd been intermittently been unable to get online at all.
so wednesday i call verizon to see what's up, and the friendly guy tells me that they're working on some wiring issues in our area and that things should be resolved by wednesday evening by 8pm or so. i figured, well, give it to tomorrow and see what happens, since deadlines for repair can be so easy to miss if only for murphy's law. lexi, for her part, is lobbying strongly for a switch to comcast high speed internet.
yesterday (thursday) i get home from the gym, fire up the computer and try to sign online. same problem. "well," thought i, "i should give them a call and see what's going on, 'cause this is really getting ridiculous." pick up the phone.
no dialtone.
are you kidding me? so i call verizon on the cellphone. the (again very nice) guy traces the line, finds there's a break in the line not far from their office, and tells me they will get it fixed asap, but possibly not 'til saturday.
a couple of hours later, however, lexi picks up the phone and finds a dialtone! yay. she was subsequently able to get online, as was i, but the connection was still much slower than it should be.
we'll see how dependable the connection is over the weekend. in the meantime, i may be hitting bestbuy for a cable modem and then hitting comcast for the necessary software. supposed to be pretty fast (6mbps download/ 8mbps upload), so this should be MUCH more workable. especially since i'm going to be doing more remixes plus Funf work, all of which is dependent upon sharing of large files.
wish us luck!
things are always very exciting as spring approaches, buses full of baseball players arriving in florida to get conditioned and ready for the season, new players to get to know, sometimes new haircuts on old friends. three years ago, johnny damon showed up with his beard and long hair, last year manny showed up with his long dreads.
this year we have no manny (so far) and we have the circus surrounding dice-k. i think it's looking to be a good year for our sox. let's hope so!
right now, though, lexi is probably very happy that there are no sports on. i mean, basketball and hockey are on, but i don't watch basketball and i haven't been following hockey lately. i never followed it all that much anyway, but i'd keep an eye on stuff and at least catch some bits of games here and there. but studio stuff has been so busy anyway, so i've not been spending too much time by the tv unless we're watching something together or, more rare of late, i'm playing a videogame.
anyway... in other news, we've been having internet issues for the last week or so. our DSL has been not quite up-to-speed lately, anyway, but we've been getting by alright. but since this past weekend we'd been intermittently been unable to get online at all.
so wednesday i call verizon to see what's up, and the friendly guy tells me that they're working on some wiring issues in our area and that things should be resolved by wednesday evening by 8pm or so. i figured, well, give it to tomorrow and see what happens, since deadlines for repair can be so easy to miss if only for murphy's law. lexi, for her part, is lobbying strongly for a switch to comcast high speed internet.
yesterday (thursday) i get home from the gym, fire up the computer and try to sign online. same problem. "well," thought i, "i should give them a call and see what's going on, 'cause this is really getting ridiculous." pick up the phone.
no dialtone.
are you kidding me? so i call verizon on the cellphone. the (again very nice) guy traces the line, finds there's a break in the line not far from their office, and tells me they will get it fixed asap, but possibly not 'til saturday.
a couple of hours later, however, lexi picks up the phone and finds a dialtone! yay. she was subsequently able to get online, as was i, but the connection was still much slower than it should be.
we'll see how dependable the connection is over the weekend. in the meantime, i may be hitting bestbuy for a cable modem and then hitting comcast for the necessary software. supposed to be pretty fast (6mbps download/ 8mbps upload), so this should be MUCH more workable. especially since i'm going to be doing more remixes plus Funf work, all of which is dependent upon sharing of large files.
wish us luck!
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