I've just spent an hour on the phone changing our internet provider and cable tv companies. Ahhhhhh! I was so wigged out at the end of it that I HAD to go out and mess around in the dirt and transplant some more tomato seedlings into pots. I had to do something low tech really fast like. I was spinning like top inside by the time I hung up. Yeah, you can get anything you want in America today. As long as you are willing to pay the price.
Remember all those old Popular Science magazines from the 50's and 60's? They always showed all this cool stuff that we were supposed to have in the future. It was all very impressive. But I don't remember much in the way of...'What is this going to be costing you?" articles.
Dang.
Now to be fair, I'm sitting in front of a modern marvel, about to send a little note to the cyber world. I mean it's like a telegram with an address on it something like.... "Attention: MOTHER EARTH".... I mean that's something. Really something. But the price tag is something too.
And they keep upping the ante.
This morning while waiting for the return phone call from the new internet provider, I got to thinking about all the money I have spent since the late 80's on internet connections and I broke out in a cold sweat.
Once more into the breach.
New equipment to install. New hoops to jump through. New email addresses. New cable channels to learn. (Where's Lost?, House? Heros?)New protocols. Fifty web sites to visit to change addresses.....
All to save fifty dollars a month.
(What a rube.)
Where's my trowel? I need to go dig in the dirt some more. Maybe I'll transplant ( ). What do you want to bet HE would dampen off?
Remember all those old Popular Science magazines from the 50's and 60's? They always showed all this cool stuff that we were supposed to have in the future. It was all very impressive. But I don't remember much in the way of...'What is this going to be costing you?" articles.
Dang.
Now to be fair, I'm sitting in front of a modern marvel, about to send a little note to the cyber world. I mean it's like a telegram with an address on it something like.... "Attention: MOTHER EARTH".... I mean that's something. Really something. But the price tag is something too.
And they keep upping the ante.
This morning while waiting for the return phone call from the new internet provider, I got to thinking about all the money I have spent since the late 80's on internet connections and I broke out in a cold sweat.
Once more into the breach.
New equipment to install. New hoops to jump through. New email addresses. New cable channels to learn. (Where's Lost?, House? Heros?)New protocols. Fifty web sites to visit to change addresses.....
All to save fifty dollars a month.
(What a rube.)
Where's my trowel? I need to go dig in the dirt some more. Maybe I'll transplant ( ). What do you want to bet HE would dampen off?