I've Got the Dial-up Blues

Things to do while you wait for a Dial-up page to load:

1. balance your checkbook
2. change oil in your car
3. cook supper
4. take a nap
5. clean your bathroom
6. read a book to your children
7. pay bills
8. watch an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond
9. rearrange living room furniture
10. take a shower


Okay, its a little sarcastic, but not much. Life has changed since I had to give up DSL. We live about 5 miles outside the city limits and have no access to DSL. It is the only thing I don't like about living here. Dial-up is a blogger's nightmare. Anyone out there who maintains a blog while using dial-up must be an amazingly patient person, willing to spend many hours listening to their screeching modems as they redial, redial, redial, sometimes to absolutely no avail. They get glossy-eyed as they watch their computer's futile attempt to load pages with multiple graphics, if they are lucky. If they are unlucky, they see this error message all too often: "CANNOT FIND SERVER." Let's be honest. Nobody out there should be paying a singe cent for dial up service. It should be free. No, it should be outlawed.

So, I'm having to rethink my blogging priorities. The dialup situation is truely terrible here and drains too much of my time and energy. My blog will either wither up and die, or else it will be updated on a much less frequent basis. Sad, but true. Now, when I get online, its to get the business done as quickly as possible, before it locks up and leaves me hanging. Now, when I get online, I cross my fingers that it will actually connect, and then that it will actually load pages and work properly. Yep, sad, but true. Do you know if there are any dial-up support groups out there?

Marla