In......Slow.....Motion.....

Q. What do you get when you cross a 5-year-old, outdated laptop with a middle-of-nowhere internet connection and a wind that plucks the power lines like a bass cello?

A. A 10 to 20 second wait for every page to load. A test of patience. A lot of sighing and grumbling. A lot of staring into space. A lot of running to the kitchen for coffee. A lot of wishing my grant from work would come through so I could purchase my shiny new HP and join the rest of the world and their split-second web surfing, already! A lot of remembering this is part of my extraordinary ordinary - we do everything a bit slower here!