Reasonably Educated Bumpkins

(photo stolen from these guys)

I pay too much for my internet connection. "Why would you do THAT, you dipstick?!" you ask. (Why all the hostility, I ask you back?)

BECAUSE, I say, ready to launch into a long and boring justification speech, BECAUSE I can't get broadband out here in the sticks (unless I have something like a million dollars for satellite internet, which I don't).

BECAUSE I've had that same e-mail address since 1996 and it's older than my children, and just as familiar. It's like a limb.

BECAUSE I don't like change. This is why I've kept my maiden name all these years -- PURE LAZINESS! (It's been convenient for keeping my immediate family anonymous when I say something stoopid on my blogs, however, which is frequent.)

But -- and I'm sure you saw the BUT coming -- all this is probably going to change. It looks like -- dum da-da-dum! -- we can finally get broadband out on the Pushing Water Ranch! My friend Gubby, as usual, did all of the research for me, and he's trying to drag me, kicking and screaming, into the Technological Age. Here I go.

So, if Clearwire's services will reach all the way out to the Pushing Water Ranch, and early indications are that they will, I should join the ranks of the somewhat speedy very soon. I will be able to use the phone -- GASP! -- while conducting important business on-line*.

I'm still not happy about giving up my limb, however. And I still don't like change, dadgummit.

*playing on the internet