Finally our connection at the new apartment is up! We’re with Verizon this time. I’ve heard a few nasty things about them, (blocking port 80 for one) but no problems so far. They even gave us a nifty DSL modem that has an integrated router and wireless! So much cool! Hopefully service doesn’t cut out when it rains… (ahem—SBC!)

The week of downtime was embarassing, but it’s over. Worst was not having Planet Zacchaeus and having to check all my friends blogs manually. Poor me, I know. (Actually worst was not having email at home without going outside to bum off an unsecured signal a few units over. We are the 5th or 6th wireless signal in the complex that I know of. I haven’t done a thorough search yet.)

At least he tried

I’ve always thought those ‘My child is an honor student’ stickers were kind of silly, but here’s something worse. ‘My child may not be an honor student, but he tried really hard’.

Oh yeah, and we have a phone in our apartment now. It was hooked up two days ago, and so far we have received nine phone calls, none of them useful. They’ve been divided about evenly between wrong numbers and telemarketers, with one “open the gate, Phil” call from Dustin. (The gate wouldn’t open.) Additional irony: we used to need a land line because our handphones got no reception indoors. Now we have perfect reception through the whole apartment, but we have to get a land line for DSL purposes.