The darkness grows.
It brushes against me, cold and wet as death.
The shadow of moving house looms higher, blanketting out the light of the great sun DSL.
I am fallen.
I am a carrier of plague. I am the dial-up leper.
I am undone.

Well, I'm officially out of the old place, into the new place. Most of you reading this should be coming to my housewarming this saturday, which hopefully won't suck. The new place, as of writing, is a mess. Everything I own is esentially littered across the floors of 4 or 5 different rooms.

I hate moving.

Hopefully by the party I can have everything cleaned up to a decent degree. Getting more and more tempted to pick-up my kitty before the house warming. I'm sure the experience would scare the hell out of him, but at least I'd have a couple of days of cat stress relief before my party. Selfish of me, I know.

And then there's the other thing. The internet thing.
As it turns out, some places in Perth still can't get ADSL. My house is one of these unwashed hell holes. This means I might have to use dial-up. DIAL-UP for gods sake! I don't even have a modem in my main box, I considered it too 'primitive'. Fate it seems, is not without a sense of irony. Not that having it in my main box would be a good thing right now, seeing as the god-damn thing resets itself about every half hour to house if I'm playing a game. VERY annoying... I need to update the BIOS, but don't have a floppy disk drive in there. See previous comments on Irony and Primitive.

The prospect of organising eveyrthing I own and cleaning half of it and putting it away is not a tempthing thought to me. Thus wasting time at Uni to write this. Which may be my only net access for a few days. Kitten looking mighty tempting right now...

The DSL thing presents another problem. Not beleiving it was possible for me to be rejected, I got a DSL Modem. The Modem in question is schmick. It's a Billion with all kinds of fruit. QoS. Firewall. 4 port switch. And now it looks like I might have no use for it. Guess I'll get some use out of that eBay account of mine.

I don't know. The whole DSL thing is irritating me.
I used and abused whereis.com.
According to my sources (Some webpage I found.) the Cannignton Exhcnage, the exchange I plug into, is on Wharf st and Albany Hwy in Cannignton. Straight line, that's just over 3Kms from me. by road, it's closer to 6Kms. Anyone know how they lay cable? To the best of my knowledge, you're supposed to be within 4.5Kms of an exchange, which one way I am, another I'm not. So I would of assumed that, average it out, and I'd be /just/ ok. But it seems not...

Anyone know if there's an appeals process? I'm tempted to re-submit just to see fi teh same thing happens, but I don't see how it would help. I've heard tell that you can ring up Telstra and try to beg them to lay a not so crappy phone line, if that's your problem, but I have no idea if that would work. Any suggestions, greatly appreciated.

Alright. Enough whining. Time to go.
Think I'll visit the Cat then unpack. Compromise. Sort of.

-Stu
posted by Unknown at 11/02/2004 11:23:00 PM [edit]