On Dial-Up
This may be an unknown topic for many of you. Dial-up that good old 56k transfer speed. Let me put in perspective. Dial-up is to a direct service line (DSL) as a wave is to a Tsunami. Or for those women who are reading this, it’s like when you OBGYN says you’re going to feel a little pressure has he/she tries to put their hand through your body to scratch an itch behind your ear.
Why should such a thing be annoying? Well, as some of you know, I’m a movie maker / video scrapbooker. Stephanie if you’d send me your email – I’d start sending you these wonderful treasures as well – though if you are on dial-up you won’t want them at all – because they only take forever to send via email. Sigh. It’s sad really. In fact, it takes so long to send them, that for the most part, I could get in my car and drive to Cadiz to personally deliver them only slightly slower than it takes for me to send them there via email. And then there’s the download time on the other end as well. Truly, an annoying thing.
And perhaps I wouldn’t find the process so annoying if it weren’t for the fact that Ashlee, who lives a mere 3 miles from my house – if you don’t have to drive the country roads – has fast access – FAST ACCESS!!! It’s discrimination I tell you – It almost makes me wish that they’d build more houses around here so they’d have to upgrade the phone lines and I could have fast access. But I’m not sure if I’d consider the extra houses a good thing. I’d be just as happy with a lottery win, at which point, I’d make my own server… I don’t know how you do that, but I know people who do know. I’m sure that I could get some people out here who’d pay good money for the privilege.
Anyway, the blog is stemming from my need to be connected indefinitely to the internet while I’m waiting for this file to send via email – and I figured I might as well blog while I was here.
