Who knew that a little piece of plastic and copper wire could be so important, or that I am such a complete neophyte when it comes to updating my access to technology and the outside world?!
Saturday afternoon, my modem cord died. That's right. I have a DSL modem. No router. It plugs into my telephone wire in my kitchen, and I only plug it into the wall jack when I'm using the computer online...which it turns out is not that often.
Although you read earlier this week that I am now a bit more solvent, I am loathe to spend $100 for AT&T to send me a new modem for lousy internet service. Of course, it's pretty inexpensive, but I could probably upgrade to something that lets me download videos in under four hours for less if I combined it with my cable service.
Fingers crossed that the new, free cord shows up soon, and that I enter the 21st Century before it's over.
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