Just in case you were wondering, no, we haven’t died a grizzly death at the hands of an abominable snowman or the Nazis. We’re all still alive and pseudo-well here in Dornbirn, Austria. Plus we finally have internet! I still can’t believe it took a month for us to get the following three steps accomplished:
1) ISP sends ships the modem to us in the mail.
2) Tech guy comes over to the house to flip a switch and plug the modem in to make sure it works.
3) The day after the tech guy visited, someone over at the ISP headquarters or phone company or something flips a switch to route the DSL river toward our house, thus actually activating our internet connection.
In America, the entire process would be done by machines, but it would take less than a week. In China, it would require a dozen people and ten hours, but would be completed within a day. Yet here on the continent that created a special fork just for fish, it takes an entire month. It’s like the entire country is on an eternal coffee break.
Regardless, we have internet now, and I have two and a half months worth of Austrian adventures to post, so hopefully as I get a few free minutes here and there this week, I’ll get a bunch of new stuff up.