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Dear Aunt Susan,
we just got back from our lovely vacation. Spent the first week in Long
Island NY visiting the wife's folks, and the second week in PV Mexico. Oh
dear, we thought our poor kittie had become road kill, as she wasn't
answering her email. But it turned out to be the neighbor's dog, so
everything was OK. Anyway sales of the new manual "Trading with a Laptop
Computer while Tanning on the Beach" are going well.
Seriously, I can report that DBC is NOT available on the local cable in
Long Island NY. And my Airtouch Digital Cell Phone was useless there for
any number I tried, local or long-distance. "This Service is Not Authorized".
On the other hand, it turns out that CWIX is an excellent ISP with local
dail-up numbers all over the country. And perfect technical support, no
waiting. They also have an 800 number for logging-on. How deluxe!
Problem is, this 800 number DOES NOT work from Mexico. Even if you do it
with a country code (as the stupid TelMex operators suggested). And neither
do the 800 numbers for LFG, Keystone, Globex or anything else for that
matter. WAAAAH. Be sure to bring the real phone numbers, I didn't and it
really complicated things.
Amazingly enough, calling the states with a normal domestic number to log
on to the internet (to operate LeoWeb or download the Omega refresh data)
actually worked but was unsatisfactory to say the least. It took multiple
tries to get the refresh files downloaded. At about $1.30 US per minute. No
problemo. The next day we signed up for 40 hours of "Puerto Net" for 150
pesos.
Trouble is, they must have been running a 386 or something. Nearly every
night it crashed and Manuel wouldn't come in the next morning until late to
reset it. Or if it happened to crash on Saturday night (which it did)
nobody would reset it until Monday morning!
So guess what? There it was Sunday in Mexico, and I had this signal for the
globex on the open. And I had no good way to log on, and no functional
human phone numbers to place orders with. I finally managed to get the
trade off, but the circumstances were rather "creative". Basically I had to
get my friend in Seattle to help me. The next morning (when Bogus Net was
finally back up again) there was email from the broker. He sounded slightly
UPSET with me. But "Oh Well". I got my fill, sorry if the paperwork got
screwed up.
Glad to be back!
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