Broadband etc

Well I’ve finally got Broadband up and running so I guess there is no excuse for procrastinating about the blogging. I signed up with Telecom.

Its present promotional feel good joining up with us deal offered a free modem as long as you signed up for a minimum of 12 months. Also they were offering half price broadband fees for the first three months (as long as you were a new customer). An offer too good to refuse-as the mafia would say.

Rang them up and chose a single PC modem which they sent but changed my mind and opted for a wireless modem instead, so I could use the internet anywhere in the house.

Because of the house having a monitored alarm Telecom said they would have to send out a technician to do some rewiring so that it would not like interfere with the alarm, or something, or whatever. (hope that is not too technical for you). I rang our alarm suppliers and told them that Telecom would be doing some work which required them to do an alarm test. Unfortunately they got the wrong info and sent a technician up who did the job Telecom was meant to do. Think it may have worked out cheaper than what Telecom was going to charge, but that is still to be seen. I rang Telecom back and told them not to bother sending out a technician as the work had already been done.

Had a little trouble trying to set everything up, wouldn’t except the account number, so I rang up a support person who talked me through a manual setup over the phone. Have to admit that the internet is heaps faster and it looks as though I will probably be able to get a lot more work done.

Big Brother is going to be over tomorrow for a nine day visit, so there will be plenty to blog about in the next week or so. Can’t take much time off work but there’ll be plenty of time to entertain him after work and also I’ve got next Thursday and Friday scheduled for annual leave. He leaves on the 10th of April, 10 days before I am due to start my holiday in Sydney. What with broadband and all I’m sure I will be able to put a lot more on my flicka sight, which is a might lacking at present.

On the tenpin bowling side of things my game is still off and scores are getting worse. Must be going through a bad slump. Never mind its only early in the year, plenty of time to improve. I hope.

Oh I almost forgot, a bit of an update on the recycling front, there is talk of keeping the green recycling bins after all, which is good news for the environment.

Well that’s about all I can think of for now. Blog you later Alligator.