I certainlly would

[kareina]

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).