Fiberoptic cable, more exactly. While the water pipes remain frozen and the toilet remains broken, the fiber guys were here as soon as the deadly cold withdrew.  (It is now zero degrees Celsius here, the freezing point of water. Or perhaps melting point of snow, although I see no sign of that.  It’s generally been -3 to -1 most of the week. Feels almost like spring, but the frozen water pipes probably don’t feel the same way.)

So the irony is that now I have super fast Internet access, but not water.  I am a pretty computer-oriented person, but I think it should be obvious which of these is the most important.  So, I won’t be moving in until the water pipes are thawed. The landlord believes that there is no damage except for the broken toilet, which he has promised to get replaced. Hopefully he is right.  This means we won’t break up the floor.  This means it won’t cost any of us a fortune. But it also means the pipes probably won’t thaw until the ground under the house has been above freezing for a few days.  (Having a comfortable room temperature for a few days certainly does not seem to have made an impression.) Which could, in the most extreme case, be until spring.

Luckily the landlord at the old place is no longer in any hurry to get me out.  So if that’s the way fate wants it, I may stay there until spring.  This is attractive in the sense that I get to continue ferrying stuff over, one carrying bag or backpack at a time.  It is repulsive in the sense that I have to pay rent for two houses all winter.  This seems a likely outcome since I have been less than impressed by the economic sense of a friend who ended up owning two houses for several seasons.  It is not something that makes me look down on people, exactly, but I would not hire them as an economic advisor either.  So it only makes sense that I get to walk a few months in their shoes, in a manner of speaking.

I can almost afford it, too.  I will have to borrow a little each month, but it is not like I have to borrow the whole amount for the old rent.  I used to have enough left over to buy a new computer every few months, remember. So it is more an attrition than a disaster.

No, the really bad part is that you can’t access my home server from the super fast optic cable.  You know you want to listen to my music, or watch anime that was never officially released in English.  But for now, not only is my main computer down, but the remaining machine is connected to a router that randomly decides that the Internet is not a good place for young computers to be, and so you just get an error message when you try to connect to trine.itlandm.operaunite.com/ .  Of course, you can always try again later.  But it probably won’t be stable until I move here.

Speaking of which, it is time to log out and wander off to the bus again.  At least I get some time for brainwave entrainment this way.  I did say I wanted a longer commute, right?  Actually it isn’t much longer in time, since most of the road is quite good and there are fewer stops.  But a little more it is. Almost exactly 40 minutes, which is the length of one LifeFlow entrainment track.