Living the High Life…Internet!

Tuesday, February 3

Today was huge. After a week of jumping through hoops and waiting, we were finally going to get internet installed in our apartment. Lily came home from work around 3pm in anticipation of the installation that was scheduled for 3:30pm. 3:30 came and went as we sat waiting. Finally we got a call from the installation-man who said he would be arriving at 4:30pm with a verbal reminder that we were in Chile and not the US….which basically meant who knows when he’ll actually show. He came to the apartment around 5:30 and messed around with one of our phone jacks for 10 minutes before saying he needed to go turn on the phone jack. Lily and I thought he meant in the apartment building, but he was gone for an hour. Apparently he had to go into the city to turn on the phone jack. He returned with a wireless router and finished up the installation before registering our computers to the account. After a 4 hour process we finally had internet and the digital world at our finger-tips. The first thing I checked was abc.com to see if I could watch LOST, but it can’t be viewed outside the US…bummer.

A bit behind schedule, Lily and I walked to the supermarket to go food shopping. We took our large empty hiking backpacks so that we could carry the groceries home. Shopping went well, but our bill was a bit more expensive that the previous week. Not stressing about it because we were at a different supermarket we loaded up the backpacks and made out way home. Later that night I looked through the receipt and realized they had charged us for something we didn’t buy and it was expensive…4707 pesos which was about $8. I was so annoyed at this and at myself for not catching the mistake while we were at the supermarket. We got screwed, but not much we can do about it.

We got home to grill the lemon pepper chicken I had been marinating since 4pm. I lit the grill and grabbed the chicken when I realized it was partially cooked already. I had left the chicken in the marinade too long the citrus from the lemon began cooking the chicken. To compound the issue the grill would not get hot enough and it wasn’t cooking the chicken. As a last resort we cooked the chicken on a frying pan and it turned out to be kind of chewy and sour. This dinner ruined our streak of great dinners, but we finally had internet so I couldn’t get too upset.