23 January, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I finally have the damn internet in my apartment. No thanks to France Telecom. Apparently, they can’t get their incompetent butts over here till February to flip the switch, and they want to charge a huge fee to do it. The family that owns my apartment finally got fed up with them. They bought a router, installed wifi in their place (pronounced wee-fee en français), and I can pick up the signal perfectly two floors above. So far so good.

So it looks like I won’t get fired from my job, go bankrupt and be forced to jump off a bridge into the Seine. Well, actually, these things could still happen (heaven forbid), but I won’t be able to blame the internet or lack thereof.

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1. CAV Says:

   January 23rd, 2007 at 10:36 am

   Congratulations!

   CAV

2. gadfleye Says:

   January 23rd, 2007 at 3:20 pm

   With your luck lately, if you jumped off a bridge (if it were me, I would pick the Pont Neuf) into the Seine, you probably would land on a tourist-filled bateau-mouche before you hit the water

3. Anglofille Says:

   January 23rd, 2007 at 6:37 pm

   Thanks Cathy.

   Gadfleye: I considered the Pont Neuf, but it isn’t very high. However, I’m not likely to find a bridge of Golden Gate proportions around here, so I’ll have to take what I can get.

4. Lillie Says:

   January 24th, 2007 at 12:35 am

   Delighted to see you have Wee-Fee now! And you didn’t even have to steal it from Mr. Flores

   It’s wonderful that things are looking up again!

5. Gumbo girl Says:

   February 8th, 2007 at 9:54 pm

   I’m back in NYC for a while, and I can’t get out of the habit of pronouncing the word “wee-fee” — resulting in odd looks from my American friends. Your post made me smile.