One thing and another

So, my grandmother's apparently somewhat on the mend. I think I might have mentioned that.

Actual news, though: after waiting for about two months, the following events occurred:

- OTE technician rang my doorbell.
- OTE technician found my apartment's phone jack, hiding behind my refrigerator.
- OTE technician fiddled with the phone jack for not more than three minutes.
- OTE technicial examined my passport for thirty seconds and had me sign a piece of paperwork.
- OTE technician told me that the phone would be working shortly.
- OTE technicial left, having spent not more than ten minutes in the apartment.
- Ten minutes after OTE technician left, I plugged in the el-cheapo telephone I brought with me from New York, got a dial tone (a Greek dial tone is not like an American one, but rather a "beep-beeeeeeep" pattern), dialed my mobile phone, and was amazed to hear my mobile phone ring.

Summary: yay!

Again with the updating

So now I've got a phone line, I can set up a DSL connection in my apartment. I went to the OTE storefront today to see about arranging it, but was tripped up by their request for a passport, which I don't habitually carry about with me (and also the fact that my line doesn't yet register with their computers as being active). They say that if I come by tomorrow morning (they open at 8), they can probably set me up with the connection and a wireless router/modem (necessary because the only phone jack in the apartment is hidden behind my fridge).

I waited two months to get the phone line. I can wait one more day to get broadband.