Finally!

Well, it's the first of April and it may be an April fool, but it looks like we finally have our ADSL Internet connection. It's been a long saga. What should have taken "5-8 days" got held up first by an error on the line (according to Portugal Telecom). I must have spent many hours on the phone to them ("Push 1 to speak to a customer services representative, 2 for....", etc., etc.), and somehow managed to keep my calm! Finally, the day before yesterday, the ADSL link was made -- but we couldn't complete the sign-in process because of some registration error or network problem. I finally talked to the engineering supervisor this morning -- after the call-center employee said it would take another working day (ie Monday) to fix -- and he seems to have made it happen. Of course no one told us we were ready to go -- I just tried it on the off-chance, and here we are -- up and running. So expect more regular postings to this blog from now on....