Caught At A Weak Moment
It’s Deb’s night out. Note the oddly colored moon tonight. I took the opportunity to give myself a recently rare Chinese food fix and introduce Sadie to the cuisine. She liked the first piece of crab rangoon - after all, cream cheese - but wouldn’t eat more later. She loved the lo mein, including the scallion that she pointedly tried after eyeing suspiciously. Fried rice is rice, so she was thrilled and only threw part of it. The other appetizers from the pu pu platter? Not so much. Except maybe a little taste of beef terriyaki and boneless rib, she tried none of it. And I didn’t offer her the shrimp, figuring one tiny bit of shellfish was enough for today.
She wasn’t impressed with how hard the fortune cookie was to eat and discarded half of it, but I saved her first fortune ever; something about careful planning and riches.
Anyway, got her in the tub, did some cleaning and putting away, got her out of the tub and as we walked by the door it knocked at us. Doh. It was a nice young guy from Verizon, lining up dates for people to switch to FiOS. That is, fiber obtic. Net price is less than we pay now for at least six months, free installation, same national calling plan but cheaper. We just have to tolerate installation guys taking 4 - 6 hours to set it up next Friday.
I knew we’d get it anyway, but the dude put me on the spot and derailed my plans to wait as long as possible. But less money and multiple times as fast? Hell yeah. And Idol starts like 3 minutes ago…
You lucky dog, you!
I have no idea when FiOS will make its appearance here in the Lakes Region, but I suspect it will be a couple of years before it arrives. Verizon is still working on running fiber throughout the two most populous counties in New Hampshire, so I doubt they’ll get around to us any time soon.
At least I have the next best thing - cable access at 6Mbs.
Posted by DCE on 05/17 at 05:37 PM
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