Monday -December 10, 2007

Wow, we are into another cold snap, this morning when it was time to go to pool aerobics the temperature was below 50F (10C) so I decided that I would pass, my cold is pretty well cleared up but I am still a bit stuffy so there is no point in taking a chance and getting miserable again.

The park has free internet and the signal strength is good but it is getting slower as the park gets busier so we decided to get the internet through Time Warner, the cable people. A couple here have it and Dave and Janet just got it this week and they say it is great and really fast and right now TW have a special on so it seemed like a good time to go for it. Off we went this afternoon and when we left Time Warner we were completely dumbfounded, we went in and told the gal what park we were at and our site number and without hesitation she signed us up, gave us a modem and all the cable and said the first invoice would be out within a week – we walked out of there with all the hardware and without paying a cent or leaving a credit card number!! Somehow I don’t think this would ever happen at home! Even better, there is no setup fee and no tax on the monthly rental.

On the way home we stopped at Home Depot and got an outside timer for our lights and then went to the Post Office and got some stamps – real exciting.

When we got back John got the new internet set up on my computer, now we need a router so that we can both use it, but right now I am using the new one and John is using the park internet on his computer. The park doesn’t want us to use wireless routers (we have one) so we are trying to find a cheap one that isn’t wireless. We had trouble setting up the e-mail account so a phone call later to the help line and it is set up (the girl who signed us up didn’t give us the e-mail address and password when we were there) on my apple mail so that I don’t have to go to the web mail now to send e-mail. Sound confusing? Not really but e-mail will now be much easier to send.

By the time this was all done it was dinner time so we are now in relaxing mode, a bit of TV or reading before calling it a day.