As you may know, we’ve been living in the communications dark ages since we moved to Orford. In November of 2009, I installed one of these on the house to bring a cell signal inside. I’m not sure why the price on these has jumped, but I definitely didn’t pay $450. With a reliable signal at the house, I purchased our first iPhone and dropped our land line connection back to the barest bones service they offered, in case the apoxyclypse or winter storm knocked out the cell tower in an emergency. Sounds quaint I guess, but we aren’t exactly near anything and the cell service is more or less dependent on electricity and prevailing winds.

So we’ve technically had a way to browse the web and communicate from home in a limited capacity for nearly two years now, but I still want the real deal. The Internet Saga has loosely cataloged the trials and tribulations over the past year to seal that deal and it now appears as though the deal may soon be sealed.

After driving by it for over a year, it seems less and less likely that I should expect anything other than absolutely nothing from the mother f’ing equipment down the street. I must be thick… to wait for 15 months before finally coming to this conclusion. Something in my brain snapped last week though and I snatched up the requisite materials to lay the bloody conduit for the fiber service. I had muscle flying in from Georgia for the weekend and we went to work.

I nearly hacked apart the propane feed to the house with my shovel, but other than that we made short work of it. I feel that opting for the manual arts rather than the modern trenching machine was the proper safeguard against me blowing us all sky high. Remember to dig safe, folks.

The call has been made to the provider, now all I need to do is set a time for them to come by and make use of this offering. I’m still trying to prepare myself for the part where they come to the house and announce that there are too many ferns in the yard and the mission has to be scrapped until we can do something about the ferns. But maybe, just maybe we’ll be blogging from Beamy HQ within the next week or so.