High Speed Blues

Well... much to my disappointment... (actually that's an understatement- I am SO sad right now) the high speed internet hook up today was not a success. You see, we live far far away from civilization (ok that's an overstatement) but basically we can't get hooked up with internet like any regular law-abiding town citizen. So we have to call special companies to come out and hook us up through antennas or satellite or whatever to the nearest tower. This company, Xplornet, was our top pick cuz our neighbors who are a 1/4 mile away from us have it and have been happy with it. We thought no problem right? The technician came and went on our roof and could see the tower from which we needed to snag the signal. He was sure we could get it cuz it was a clear line-of-sight. But no. For some reason, it did not work. The technician tried everything and nothing worked. He couldn't figure it out. He thinks there must be some sort of distortion around us messing up the signal. So now we have stinking dial-up still. So we called another company. They have a waiting list of 30-60 days. Yikes. So we called one more company and they might be able to do it but we won't know for a few days yet. Gosh. So... for that reason... I withdraw my vote for May 1 to be an international holiday.