Apologies
Hello again!
Well, apologies are in order – we try to post at least five times per week, and this week has been a small disaster. I had a problem with my laptop that kept me off-line for more than 60 hours. A little bit of that belongs to my ISP, but most of it is my fault.
In any case, I’m back on, but it appears that the traffic from where I am to the Internet is dreadfully high right now – I suppose all the Italian children who are not on vacation are inside on the Internet with our many days of 35°C (that’s about 95°F) weather with no clouds. Actually, probably many of those who are on vacation are also on the Internet during the day, as well.
For those of you who don’t know, I’m located in central Italy, quite near the town of Foligno which claims to be the center of the world/universe/etc (it really is the geographical centre of Italy), in the countryside, and my only two possibilities for high-speed Internet are (1) satellite, which turns out to cost around €100 per month when you add in the required ISDN telephone costs, and (2) a microwave link to a provider about 10 km (6+ miles) away, but (for us) with a good line-of-sight connection. This costs from €30 (US$ 50) per month up, depending on the degree of speed and money you want to balance out. You can probably guess which one I chose. Sometimes they have deliverability problems – like nasty things like lightning strikes, flooded (flat) roof where all their antennas are, etc. But this time, they say that it was “global problems on their network” – whatever that might be (just got an sms from them as I was writing this). Anyway, everything should be back to normal now, they say. So maybe I can play catch-up?
Again, sorry about the slowdown. I can’t say it won’t happen again (because it probably will), but it was not intentional.
Thanks for looking in,
Jimmy Craig
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