I miss my 46 & 2

46.2 Kilobits per second, that is - my internet connection speed at my old house. Now, what with me living in the middle of nowhere and all, my dial-up's getting 32ish, tops.

That's a 25% reduction in speed, and that's from an already low dial-up speed. It's enough to reduce a nerd to tears, almost.

Anyhow, I'm not dead, contrary to popular belief. I'm at my folks place in Marton (hit Google maps - make sure you tell google it's in New Zealand, or things'll get messy) and my options for getting a hold of the outside world are pretty thin on the ground. My folks are anti-tech and the nearest phone port to where I've managed to convince them to set my computer up is about 15 metres away.

A quick purchase at the local hardware store, and I'm back online, but only when nobody's around - the wire running from the garage, through the lounge, into the hallway is a bit of a give-away that I'm doing something they don't want me to.

Nonetheless, I'm capable of getting here and saying things, so I intend to as often as possible. My main priority is finding work, as I'm going to need a vehicle if I'm not going to lose my mind. This town isn't so much a one-horse town, but there's something like 5 pubs all of which run bottle stores, and the population doesn't seem to stretch into double-digit thousands. That's a pretty good ratio.

So yeah, my posting will be sporadic at best, but I'll at least have plenty of time to work on quality over quantity.

But for those who're curious, this is what most of the scenery consisted of on the drive from Lower Hutt to here. There were a few towns in between all of this (though if you took longer than 60 seconds to go through each one, it was due to heavy traffic), and my phone's camera doesn't do justice for how boring the view was, but imagine two hours of this...