OK maybe not my arms and legs but I have been without internet connection for a WEEK! OH MY GOD! What on earth did I do before the internet?????

Now as many of you know I work online so having access to what is going on in the world is a complete absolute must, I have to know what is going on and where and why! If I don’t I lay awake at night worrying that I forgot to do something, you know that horrible feeling that you left a candle burning somewhere, or you have left a door or window open or even worse a pay per click campaign running that you were not sure if it was going to be beneficial or not!

At the moment for me it is more along the lines of I am letting my team down (for more on this have a look at The 30 Day Challenge Blog) I have managed to get connected to the internet a few times by driving the 20k to my In laws house and using their connection but it isn’t right that I go EVERYDAY!

The reason I have no connection is that I have moved to a new apartment with my beautiful wife, we now live on a tranquil golf course with fantastic views. However and this is a big however, this has caused a communications problem and a problem with the amount of content I normally get online every day.

Why am I having this problem in todays communication age? Well this is a fairly complexed situation, the urbanization that we live on has its own phone system, meaning they can charge pretty much what they like, and they do. Being a little bit of a tech head I think that paying over $100 a month on a 1MB internet connection is expensive. We are lucky enough to live in the area where high speed wireless internet is available (WIMAX look it up it is cool, apart from a small hitch), when I say available its more like it is but not in my apartment (eh?).

When the guys came to look at the location of my apartment they took one look and said there was a problem, the conversation went something like this:

Man in overalls: There is a problem?

Me: Problem? There is no such thing as a problem there is only fuel for solutions!

Man in overalls: The Mountain.

Me: Yes its a mountain.

Man in overalls: Its in the way.

Me: Of what?

Man in overalls: The base station (I started thinking of thunder birds are go at this point)

Me: Move it.

Man in overalls: The base station?

Me: No the mountain

Unimpressed at the thought of having to move a large rock form or his base station he left, and left me without an internet connection.

I then decided that it would be cheaper and more worthwhile to get a mobile internet connection this way I can work anywhere and with the high speed available with new technology I can get just as fast speeds from that as I would a land line made of solid gold. So off we go to the shop to get one.

We arrive at the superstore which is the equivalent of Macy’s massive place 5 floors of goodies! When we arrive at the cell phone desk we ask for what we have studied in the papers and online at the internet cafe and we are told “We don’t do that here you need to go to an official shop!” Hmmmm there was me thinking that official shop means where they sell everything from the supplier but obviously not!

So we walk (up the mountain pretty much!) and we get to the “Official Shop!” which is closed. I am now starting to think that I am being picked on a little.

So unfortunately by the time you read this 24 hours will have passed and I will be pulling my hair out at the growing amount of content I have ready to be uploaded to various websites. I thank you for your patience and I will be back online shortly with even less hair than I had before we moved and a very much caffeine induced twitch!