As it usually does, the universe acted in a funny way yesterday. I posted a rather lengthy blog about the trials and tribulations of getting the internet hooked up at our house. And, about an hour later, Telkom was at our door, unannounced (they were supposed to call before they came). I know for a fact that this had nothing to do with my blog post, as it had just been published and had virtually no readers (although 700 people […]
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Waiting For Telkom (AKA, South Africa’s National Pastime)
I’ll never complain about slow internet again. OK, I probably will, because most of it is horrifically slow here, and you don’t know how hard life can be until you’ve waited a good 5 seconds to load the perfect cat meme to send as a witty response to a friend’s text (or SMS as they call them here, because in the spirit of doing ALL things inefficiently in South Africa, they’ve decided to tack on an extra two syllables. Just […]