Our New Apartment
Our new apartment…
… has many unpacked and semi-packed boxes in it
… was built in 1925
… has plaster walls instead of drywall
… has 9-foot ceilings
… is quieter and darker than our old apartment
… has radiators!
… has a gas stove 
… has original light fixtures and funky old door handles
… is on a quiet street in a neighborhood with many young families
… is close to both Ben’s work/school and mine
… is on the ground floor
… has creaky wooden floors
… has a galley kitchen with a swinging door
… has a small yard
… has lots of windows - many with their original sash weights
… has only slow DSL at 256 kps 
… has a laundry chute!
… has phone jacks everywhere except where we want one
… has two bedrooms
… has an actual dining room (which dwarfs our little eating table)
… has a LOT of counter space
… is now home.
June 7th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Here’s a thought. Your DSL may be slow because your apartment is old. If the house telephone wiring has been in place for 50 years or more there may be artifacts in it dating from pre- tone dialing days that were never removed when tone dialing came in, and now prevent DSL from using the full frequency band that twisted pair permits. Like load coils. These things should of course not be there any more, but you never know. Is 256kb/s what you signed on for? If so, I guess you’ve had it! But if not, complain to the phone company. They might even string a special line for you that goes straight to the Central Office. Tell ‘em you have connections!!