I certainlly would

clovis_t recently sent me a link to an article which claims that of the woman surveyed most would rather do without sex than do without internet. My frustrations with our current internet situation makes me realize that I am firmly in that category. The internet connection here at the house is a satellite connection, which, in theory, is faster than dial up. However, even when pluged directly into the modem (necessary as our router and modem are not acknowledging one another's existence) things are very, very slow to download (please don't send me *anything* as an attachment till this is resolved!) and web pages are far more likely to return an error message than to open. My solution to the problem is to only bring my computer to the modem once or twice a day, down load my mail, open my friends page, and then take the computer away to read it all on line and hope that there is nothing upon which I so wish to comment that I need to spend all of the time necessary to actually get back to that page to comment. We've ordered ADSL, which may or may not work here, but it won't arrive to test for several working days after placing the order, and given the holidays...

Uni work is once again progressing. Yesterday I finished up a section of a chapter (which resulted in a net loss of 175 words as the new stuff permited deleting of some old stuff), and this morning I couldn't sleep and did a couple hours work between 04:00 and 06:30 before going back to sleep. It is now 11:00 and my plan is to return to my comfy chair, read my morning mail, and get back to uni work. Perhaps later the "ute" (Australian for pick-up truck) will be available to take some of our boxes to storage (assuming that the arrangements I've made for a location work out).

I certainlly would

clovis_t recently sent me a link to an article which claims that of the woman surveyed most would rather do without sex than do without internet. My frustrations with our current internet situation makes me realize that I am firmly in that category. The internet connection here at the house is a satellite connection, which, in theory, is faster than dial up. However, even when pluged directly into the modem (necessary as our router and modem are not acknowledging one another's existence) things are very, very slow to download (please don't send me *anything* as an attachment till this is resolved!) and web pages are far more likely to return an error message than to open. My solution to the problem is to only bring my computer to the modem once or twice a day, down load my mail, open my friends page, and then take the computer away to read it all on line and hope that there is nothing upon which I so wish to comment that I need to spend all of the time necessary to actually get back to that page to comment. We've ordered ADSL, which may or may not work here, but it won't arrive to test for several working days after placing the order, and given the holidays...

Uni work is once again progressing. Yesterday I finished up a section of a chapter (which resulted in a net loss of 175 words as the new stuff permited deleting of some old stuff), and this morning I couldn't sleep and did a couple hours work between 04:00 and 06:30 before going back to sleep. It is now 11:00 and my plan is to return to my comfy chair, read my morning mail, and get back to uni work. Perhaps later the "ute" (Australian for pick-up truck) will be available to take some of our boxes to storage (assuming that the arrangements I've made for a location work out).

progress, but not so much on uni work

Spent much more time doing things to help settle into the new house than uni work today. clovis_t and I did a "tip run" (in Australia they call it a "tip" because you "tip" the "rubbish" out of your "ute", rather than the US version of "dump" where you "dump" your "trash") because his parent's house is far enough out of town that there is no "rubbish" collection service. I really needed to do this one for me--the accumulation of bottles, cans, newspapers etc. to be recycled was getting much too deep for any more to be added. It is my hope that we will do a tip run often enough that it doesn't get that bad again.

In the evening I took the large boxes of kitchen stuff off to storage (thanks madryn_1960 for the use of your crawl-space! This also *really* needed to happen. When we moved in the boxes of books and craft stuff got piled in a corner of the "rumpus room", much to the annoyance of clovis_t's sister (who wanted the room available for her birthday party last weekend) and dad. Since they made it clear they didn't like the stuff there, when he took the last load of our stuff over and I kept scrubbing the old house, he stacked the boxes in the middle of our room, where they towered taller than I am, and left only a very narrow path. Yesterday I cleaned our room, but the cost was putting those boxes into the hallway. This made life inconvenient for all of us, as it drastically narrowed the egress. There now being no room in our room for boxes (the new configuration has my recliner/computer station in the middle of the room), I couldn't move them back in, so out they had to go.

Between those two major distractions (and a couple of walks--one with baronsnorri, who rents the house from madryn_1960 under which I am storing my stuff) that didn't leave as much time for uni work as I would have liked, with only two full hours devoted to it--most of that this morning before 06:30, when I went back to sleep. But that work did give me an additional 214 words for my thesis, so it is better than not working. Other than a party in the evening at the home of our local Baroness, I don't have any distractions planned for tomorrow, and despite the fact that the family would like the boxes out of the rumpus room, I think I'm finally settled in enough to devote energy to work. I sure hope so!

progress, but not so much on uni work

Spent much more time doing things to help settle into the new house than uni work today. clovis_t and I did a "tip run" (in Australia they call it a "tip" because you "tip" the "rubbish" out of your "ute", rather than the US version of "dump" where you "dump" your "trash") because his parent's house is far enough out of town that there is no "rubbish" collection service. I really needed to do this one for me--the accumulation of bottles, cans, newspapers etc. to be recycled was getting much too deep for any more to be added. It is my hope that we will do a tip run often enough that it doesn't get that bad again.

In the evening I took the large boxes of kitchen stuff off to storage (thanks madryn_1960 for the use of your crawl-space! This also *really* needed to happen. When we moved in the boxes of books and craft stuff got piled in a corner of the "rumpus room", much to the annoyance of clovis_t's sister (who wanted the room available for her birthday party last weekend) and dad. Since they made it clear they didn't like the stuff there, when he took the last load of our stuff over and I kept scrubbing the old house, he stacked the boxes in the middle of our room, where they towered taller than I am, and left only a very narrow path. Yesterday I cleaned our room, but the cost was putting those boxes into the hallway. This made life inconvenient for all of us, as it drastically narrowed the egress. There now being no room in our room for boxes (the new configuration has my recliner/computer station in the middle of the room), I couldn't move them back in, so out they had to go.

Between those two major distractions (and a couple of walks--one with baronsnorri, who rents the house from madryn_1960 under which I am storing my stuff) that didn't leave as much time for uni work as I would have liked, with only two full hours devoted to it--most of that this morning before 06:30, when I went back to sleep. But that work did give me an additional 214 words for my thesis, so it is better than not working. Other than a party in the evening at the home of our local Baroness, I don't have any distractions planned for tomorrow, and despite the fact that the family would like the boxes out of the rumpus room, I think I'm finally settled in enough to devote energy to work. I sure hope so!