24 02 2014
Jolly Harbour, Antigua
Meredith is once again a North American boat. De facto not just on paper.
A couple of articles are due and are coming.
It was a crossing we are glad is over.
Arriving Antigua we chose a marina wihich offered "Free WIFI" pronounced W eye F eye over here and not the much smoother but wimpy W ee F ee used in Europe.
It is a fact that every bar and coffee shop and every ten year old boy with a jug of water on his back slugging glasses of H2O to weary caravans at 2 cents a glass can provide fast,efficient working internet to their customers.
No marina anywhere on planet earth, regardless of how much they charge for rent, can provide any internet of aerny kind for any period of time. They do however maintain a list of excuses that similarly are universal. Insults such as:
It is working. (this one works short term. Soon people start showing up with their laptops and tablets in the marina office. When this Tppens the staff move to this:
The guy is coming to work on it this afternoon. This works for about a week and then staff move to excuse number 3:
It is not us, it is the ISP or its less frequent variant We are changing services and there will be a brief outage.
So we sit in peace and quiet and calm, protected by marinas from any contact with the rude and annoying outer world.
Time for another beer. I will check messages tomorrow.
Jolly Harbour, Antigua
Meredith is once again a North American boat. De facto not just on paper.
A couple of articles are due and are coming.
It was a crossing we are glad is over.
Arriving Antigua we chose a marina wihich offered "Free WIFI" pronounced W eye F eye over here and not the much smoother but wimpy W ee F ee used in Europe.
It is a fact that every bar and coffee shop and every ten year old boy with a jug of water on his back slugging glasses of H2O to weary caravans at 2 cents a glass can provide fast,efficient working internet to their customers.
No marina anywhere on planet earth, regardless of how much they charge for rent, can provide any internet of aerny kind for any period of time. They do however maintain a list of excuses that similarly are universal. Insults such as:
It is working. (this one works short term. Soon people start showing up with their laptops and tablets in the marina office. When this Tppens the staff move to this:
The guy is coming to work on it this afternoon. This works for about a week and then staff move to excuse number 3:
It is not us, it is the ISP or its less frequent variant We are changing services and there will be a brief outage.
So we sit in peace and quiet and calm, protected by marinas from any contact with the rude and annoying outer world.
Time for another beer. I will check messages tomorrow.
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