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Friday, December 29, 2006
In celebration of the 2006 insanity holiday season, we've packed ourselves up and set out for a visit to The Family--—currently residing in the deepest darkest recesses of the Pacific Northwest.
My mom does have both electricity and running water; however broadband hasn't yet blazed a path through the impenetrable maze of bark and pine needles that surrounds their remote outpost cozy forest cabin. Actually, it's more mansion than cabin. Seriously, I tried to count the number of rooms but ran out of fingers and toes. My general impression is that they have a limitless number of rooms and staircases that randomly rearrange themselves through some kind of Hogwarts effect.
Just for kicks, we decided to plug my VoipStick in and give it a whirl. Mom walked into the office in the middle of Operation Voip Internet Phone on DialUp and noticed right off that there was a foreign object sticking out of her computer and boy oh boy did we catch heck over that. Apparently, there was some concern about the kids killing her computer via unknown software and stuff.
Luckily I had to take a Persuasive Speech class in college and we were able to talk her down from DEFCON 1 so we could carry on with our evil plan. Well, it was either that or the part where we didn't have to load any computer killing software onto her computer.
We got it launched, no problem and I made a quick test call to my brother's cell phone but even though everything was set up right we were 100% no voip joy.
Stay tuned for more fascinating adventures from the voip-less Northwest.
