Technology Is Like A Sloth

I volunteer. Quite a bit. I volunteer at the local church as a lay reader. I volunteer as the chair person for the Junior Canadian Rangers here in our town. I volunteer a the local spinning and weaving guild as the the president. I volunteer at the spinning and weaving guild in a nearby city as the secretary and I volunteer with the regional guild as the newsletter editor. Beside keeping two of my own blogs I keep a blog for the NPSW and soon I will be keeping a blog/newsletter for the PCSW. I'm helping my two children to sporadically keep their own blogs and I'm starting a blog for the youth group at the church. I do quite a bit of writing all in all. I spend a lot of time on the computer. People are starting to get upset that they can never reach me by phone because I'm still on dial up and what should take minutes sometimes takes hours.... I want high speed internet and I'm starting to get p---- off that high speed is really really expensive in my neck of the woods.

I mean internet has been around for quite a while now and you would think that after all theses years the techy companies that provide internet service would get it together enough to make a killing in the backwoods. NOOOOOO that is not the way. When I moved to this wonderful little town not quite 13 years ago they still had party lines..... like if that is not the dark ages I don't know what is. I only had to dial the last four digits in any number and I could call anyone in this town. Then about eight years ago out went the party lines and in came the regular lines then about seven years ago they made it mandatory to dial all seven digits and then about two years ago they made it mandatory to dial all ten digits. Meanwhile we linger in this lovely part of the country with antiquated technology. I mean you can get cell service in and around this little town but go 15 miles to the east or west and poof!!! no cell service. So Hubby and I are debating.... do we drop our land line and stick with cell and then get satelite service for the computer? Or do we tough it out with the tried and true dial up...... hmmmm!

What would you do?