Hello from an internet cafe in the Adelaide city center. You may have guessed from the lack of news here at afreeman.org that we have not yet sorted out our internet situation. It seems that our new home in Happy Valley, a perfectly normal looking suburb in the hills south of the city, is actually smack dab in the middle of a time warp. It appears impossible to get a telephone or the internet or cable TV. We do, and for this I’m truly grateful, have hot water and that fancy new fangled electricity.
So, bear with me a wee while longer. Hopefully things will be back up to the underwhelming standards to which you’ve become accustomed in a matter of, well, weeks.
Sigh.
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by boyhowdy
28 Apr 2008 at 06:11
Good luck, Chris! We’re all rooting for ya!
We choose not to have TV in our house, but I’d never make it going netless. But no PHONE!? Sounds like a Cake song I’m rather fond of…
…so here; feel free to post this as a direct link in the post, or the next one, if it helps. I’m happy to host it right where it is, to help out a fellow blogger.
Cake — No Phone
(from Pressure Chief)
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by SSG
28 Apr 2008 at 09:19
mmm cake
anyways it sounds infinitely nicer than here which has been wet, cept yesterday went on a nice long walk and then a eat as much as you like sunday roast, my belly was really sore I ate too much. is it warmer than sydney? and how is zach doing? and is there a drought? do you like their choc i think it tastes pants, lemme know if you want me to ship some british stuff cos i will my friend, i will. i feel you pain if you are missing british confectionary
by Bobbie
29 Apr 2008 at 02:08
Phones? just gets some mobiles. Cable TV? there’s always satellite. No ‘net? GAAAAK! You poor things!!
Hope you get that one sorted out soonest. Internet cafes just won’t do for too long.
All the best to the three of you.
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by alice
29 Apr 2008 at 04:11
I could live without the phone and the TV, but NEVER the internet! Dog forbid!!!
Best of luck!
by arizaphale
29 Apr 2008 at 14:04
You’re back! Couldn’t get the site at ALL yesterday. This really is a backwater isn’t it? I hate to tell you but Mum and Dad (whose ‘holiday’ house is in the next suburb to you) will never be able to get broadband because they are on a ’shared’ telephone line. Telstra have no plans to change this. Is that not OUTRAGEOUS??????? Telstra have bucket loads to answer for as far as I’m concerned. It took us weeks to get internet here too. Eventually we had to have some fancy bloody electronic gadget installed in the roof with wires in all directions to avoid the phone/ADSL conflict. Nothing is straightforward in the bush mate. And how about the freezing cold crap weather to boot? Did you bring that with you? Sinead! I blame you and the pram cover (not that we couldn’t do with the rain)……………
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by Nathan B.
29 Apr 2008 at 14:39
Does the water really go down the sink counter-clockwise there?
by Jason
29 Apr 2008 at 23:01
Good question Nathan. Perhaps Chris can provide us with some video evidence of this urban legend….
by mjrc
30 Apr 2008 at 12:01
did you see that southpark episode where the internet disappeared and the whole country moved west (a la the joads in grapes of wrath) looking for internet service . . . it was pretty funny.
hopefully things aren’t quite that bad in the happy valley!
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by Brittany
30 Apr 2008 at 12:49
I stumbled upon your Oz playlist from my Elbo.ws music feed. I just so happen to be studying abroad in Sydney this semester, and coincidence of all coincidences, I’m a Mizzou student.
Hope you get the internet situation worked out, I’ll be looking forward to reading how your move to Australia goes. Best of luck.
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by courtney
30 Apr 2008 at 14:14
Hurry back! I want to hear all about Adelaide!
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by Nathan B.
30 Apr 2008 at 14:58
Really, if I can get internet service here in Iowa, you should be able to get service in the booming metropolis of Adelaide…
by Jessica K
30 Apr 2008 at 16:01
I hope you get this all worked out soon! I depend on Zach for my daily dose of cuteness.
I’m stunned that there is a place on earth that still uses shared phone lines. That’s just unreal.
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by Vixen
30 Apr 2008 at 18:48
I had no idea Australia was so antiquated. I could never go without highspeed internet, so I shall have to remain in the US for now.
At least you have electricity!
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by Rambling Canuck
01 May 2008 at 00:34
Keep your head up.
by Not Afraid To Use It
01 May 2008 at 03:58
This totally cured my fantasy dream of moving down there for a few years with Hubbie’s job. No Internet? No bloody way. Glad to see your site is available again, though. I was going through a bit of withdrawal.
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by Busy Dad Mumbles
04 May 2008 at 02:10
Dude, sounds like you have joined us here in Missouri. Depending on the wind we can lose internet service. You know, we can’t even get automatic voicemail when on the line.