I've had it!

Just ordered DSL!

It should be here on April 5th. Just six more days of painfully slow page loads and blog post pictures taking all day to upload. Hooray!

So here's what I've thrown at AT&T so far:

I started out by making a $85 deposit that I still have no idea about how it will be refunded. Then about $47 for the setup of my phone line. It'll be about $42 for my basic phone plan that doesn't yet include the local calls it took for me to dial into 550access, my current 56k online provider. This one costs $5,50, as the name suggests. So now, with DSL, I'm out another $49,99 for the modem, which it will cost another $13 to ship plus $30 for the DSL access itself. That adds up to about $200 for something Nema and Borat had instantly and for free when they came here - acceptable internet access.

By the way, my paper asking to share internet access with someone else that I hung up downstairs was greeted with a post-it stuck on it that stated that this was illegal. Sometimes, this country still surprises me.