Internet Connection Update

We've made a little progress. We've been using an AOL dial-up line which costs per minute, and also is e x t r e e e e e e e e m e l y s s s s s s s s l o w w w w w w w w w w w w w. So I only use it once or twice a day, for a simple upload/download. Better than the hotel parking lot, which had a clandestine feel to it, though it was much faster (if you don't count the drive time, or maybe even if you do).

Yesterday we received in the mailbox (to which the postman apparently has a key, which is news to me but I vaguely remember as a possibility) a beautiful brown package with the DSL box in it. Our hopes were dashed, though, for getting online properly last night, since the service doesn't appear to be working yet. Back to the three week wait thing I guess.

There are 31 photos I have chosen, cropped, named, and exported from iPhoto to my blog photos folder on the desktop, and want to post, but with the current upload conditions, we'll have to take it slowly!!!

I'll start with the approach to our village: