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To: silent_jonny

My internet connection is really spazzy. It might be funny if it didn't irritate me so much.

Anyway...how are you? Anything exciting going on?


247 posted on 10/15/2006 4:17:28 PM PDT by ilovew (I love being a DoD intern...)
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To: ilovew

Nope, this is pretty much the highlight of my Sunday :)


249 posted on 10/15/2006 4:18:36 PM PDT by silent_jonny (Reid must Resign!)
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To: ilovew

I had a friend who was a missionary in Latvia while Latvia was still trying to come out from under the fog of Communism (late 1990's, early 2000's), and the Internet connections (dial up only) were so bad that she and her roommate would (literally) lay hands on the computer and pray HARD before and during attempts to transmit Email. Often, that was the only way it would work.

When she'd come back to the States, she would wander through the grocery stores, mumbling in wonder about all the food, having forgotten about the abundance of our food supply after nine months abroad. She said they had so many fewer shelves and so much less food to buy in Latvia it wasn't funny, but it's gotten better in the last few years. When she first went to Latvia in the 1990's, her refrigerator was what the Eastern Europeans often used: a hole dug into a hillside near her dwelling.

Anyway, sorry about your I-net connection being so shaky. It's a pain for sure.


261 posted on 10/15/2006 5:01:11 PM PDT by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
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