Ahhh! Houston, we have broadband!
posted in Uncategorized |A one-month hookup with the local EV-DO wireless network. Woohoo! Now I can surf and talk to my heart’s delight.
AND, more importantly, I can work on Monday!
Woohoo!
I can already tell you it’s not as fast as my cable modem was back in Small Mountain University Town…so I think we’ll be going the cable route when we move into the new house. But the EV-DO wireless network is fast enough, and we’re now able to do Bonnie & Matt’s sixth week routine from ITV’s Dancing On Ice once again. The dotter will be happy.
When I muttered to OmegaDad that the daycare/after-school care place I had found wasn’t really my cup of tea, he decided to question some coworkers. Cassiopiea (very nice lady) mentioned that our local gymnastics place does daycare too. Since I had been planning to haul the kiddo off to gymnastics to get some of the Tigger-ishness out, I leaped upon the idea.
Thank goodness. Much more my cup of tea.
So when Monday rolls around, the dotter will be in for a week of preschool and I’ll be a-workin’ again. And then next Monday she starts kindergarten. And then that Wednesday is closing (CLOSING!!!!). (Countdown: 10 days.) And we can start really settling in and not feeling like tourons any more.
Speaking of tourons, we have been friggin’ tourons from hell lately. We’ve driven off to see The Big One (from a distance, but it was clear and lovely and they’re damned huge mountains). We’ve checked out the tidal bore in the Inlet. We’ve discovered the tiny little Port MacArthur, which is, apparently, a logging port and nothing more at the end of a 14-mile road; we’ve checked out Wacheetna, the quaint tourist town at the confluence of the Big Lady, the Wacheetna, and the Matsuna rivers; and the small town museum for Knok, which was the big port once upon a time, until the railroad came through and turned Big City into The Port.
It’s been fun.
