Austins in Thailand

I haven’t posted anything for over a month now. Why? I’ll explain and you’ll get some insight into our little world here.

We had an internet service which was satelite based. ADSL was not available until recently, so satelite was the way to go. However, it was expensive and whenever there were clouds it stopped working - grrrrr. When we had the coup a few months back it was cloudy at the time. I had no idea if we needed to run for our lives, or just enjoy living in a state of armed crises. Well. . .

Finally, I learned that ADSL was available - faster and cheaper. So I cancelled the satelite when the phone company assured me the ADSL would be connected. 5 weeks later I now have ADSL.

FIrst they attached the ADSL to a non existent line - then charged me to switch it to the existing line. Then the right hand didn’t know what the left hand was doing, so they didn’t turn on the two new lines in their office. Then they turned on one but not the other. Meanwhile my Thai IT friends are going crazy and I’m trying to keep smiling, because you always have to smile here in the land of smiles. . .

One of my favorite thai works is, “Lambak!” it means, “what a bother!”

Well, I’m up and running. Visit again soon. . .