why this post has no pictures

Well, we have Internet again.

Sort of.

Our friend Renato, who had been wrangling the with phone company and unintentionally caused them to cut off our service initially, went to the mall with us yesterday to help us get another kind of Internet service.

It's a thumb-drive-type device that works without a phone line. After only an hour in the store, the device was purchased and we were on our way. The salesperson assured us that 1) it was 1 megabyte speed, and 2) it would work with a Mac.

I think you can see where this is going.

When Dan called the store back to tell them that both claims were false, the salesperson said that he would have to call customer service.

But to do that, he'd have to call from a land line.

Well, we don't have a land line. (Because you cut it off!)

You can use a cellphone, then, as long as it's the same service.

Turns out our cellphone provider is different, though.

This back and forth went on for fifteen minutes before Dan got off the phone, smoke coming out of his ears.

So, since I have no Internet access on my Mac, no photos today.

But at least we have something. And hopefully we can fix the speed problem before Dan has any more job interviews on Skype.