Super Fast Virgins! (That Got Your Attention)

It’s been an painful 3 weeks as I’ve basically had no home internet or phone. Kind of hard when I’m supposed to work from home using an internet connection to my employers.
We could say I gave up the web for Lent – and it was hard. It meant I had to commute down to the office each day, wasting a hour each way every day and burning that increasingly costly petrol. And with only occasional glimpses of my personal emails and favourite web sites while at work, it hammered home how much time I spend/waste online.
So the solution – waste time faster. Yesterday the Virgin engineers came and connected me to their nice shiny fibre cable network. A quick test downloading some programmes for the BBC iPlayer has shown that its running at least ten times faster than the old copper cable. Yes its more expensive but the petrol saving should compensate for that.
A bonus is that the new router’s wireless works with the work laptop, so the option of being in the sun (when it comes) and still being able to work is now real. That’ll improve my mood and the tan! But as a start, just being back online is sooooo nice that sooooo should be a real word.