Yes, I'm still alive yet my new net connection is not...

First I realize internet is not one of those basic human necessities, though for me it's important. We've also well established the fact that I was not ready to move yet. However, I did arrrange for internet at the new place prior to the move. I actually thought I'd be ahead of the game and therefore guarantee that I would have internet at the house when we did move. (That was my first mistake believing I had that covered.) What appears to be my second mistake was deciding to not go with SBC now ATT for the dsl. Earthlink offered a cheaper monthly deal and at a higher speed than what I was getting now. The dsl was supposedly activiated at the house days ago - the modem finally arrived on Monday. It looks like the older lines that the house has can't handle it. Phone reception when the dsl is plugged in is horrible (yes I am using the filters) and the one computer we took over to the house won't connect. Dial up would work but I have this thing about tying up the phone line incase one of my kids needs me. So, I apologize to all of you I owe emails, especially you C - as my net time is now limited to when I'm over at the old place until this is resolved which will hopefully happen before we are totally moved out of the old place.

Why Earthlink appears to be a mistake is their customer support has been horrible and I know the problem is not with the computer as they are trying to tell me. The computer over there worked here and even if something very screwy happened (which given my life is always possible) a bad ethernet card is not going to make the phone line clarity issue happen. Further as a former call center employee who did level one tech support for cable internet, I understand the job of a basic tech support person very well. However...if you cannot speak ENGLISH then perhaps you should be doing tech support for the specific language group that appears to be your primary language. Yes, that is probably why Earthlink can offer a cheaper deal than ATT, because they obviously are not spending much money on quality customer support, so I am thankful that I can cancel within the first 30 days without violating a contract as it appears I am headed in that direction. There is one aspect of Earthlink that they seem to be johnny on the spot on - taking the money from my account for the dsl. They were pretty darn quick and efficient when it came to that. :-)

More pictures soon, especially the "pepto pink room" that Aubrey selected that now has one of those pink net canopy thingies that hangs from the ceiling. Though the rest of us non-pink lovers are debating how long it will be after we move the cats over (not even going to broach that topic) before they discover how fun it could be to try to take their extremely fat cat asses up to the top of the net.

Have I ever mentioned that I hate moving?