So here’s the saga of DSL at the Kerezman abode:

The Company discovers that we have trade with our ISP for DSL accounts that aren’t being used. Company says, “Hey Karel! If you pay for the Qwest line, you can use this traded-out DSL account.” Karel says, “Hot damn!” And then Qwest says, “Sorry buddy. You’re too far away and you’ve got some weird voltage on your line so even if you weren’t too far away it almost certainly wouldn’t work.”

Argh. All kinds of folks are lining up for a chance to kick me around. I finally, after five years, convince the company to help me out in the broadband department and I can’t have it anyway.

I’m all out of bright ideas. (No, cable is not a bright idea. It’s freakin’ expensive.) That troublesome 50k modem is going to be with us for quite a while longer, it seems.

Again, argh.