Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Friday the 13th… again…

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Why are the internet people not yet finished with @warzan new internet?

No idea. It’s a miracle that the internet works at all. When I lived aboard our narrowboat (and, more recently, when we went away a few weeks ago) I got a monthly unlimited mobile broadband SIM (latterly, from Smarty); it was plenty fast enough to create a mobile wifi hotspot (which I even shared with a couple of people moored either side of us). For £18/mth and download speeds akin to a “moderate speed” copper wired connection, I have even considered getting rid of my home fibre connection and going fully mobile. Smarty is a re-seller for Three, so I don’t know what the coverage would be like in N.I.: https://smarty.co.uk/coverage-checker

Will they ever be finished?

It’s possible. If the current government need a few seats at the next election, they’ll probably bung a few quid across the water for their meaningless “gigabit broadband rollout” and a few remote areas might get slightly better internet connections than they currently have. Or it could drag on for decades (as has happened across much of Wales).

Do you have a separate savings account for hobby expenses or do you just use what’s there at the moment?

My hobby spend just gets rolled up into the rest of my spending and it goes like this: how many days left ’til payday? How many bills have I still to pay? Can I maintain my current level of spending ’til the end of the month? F@*k it, I’m getting it anyway.

In other news, my Youtube feed has filled up with some nice new videos, thanks to the recommendations from you guys – thank you, everyone! Here’s your music. Yes, it’s purile and the kind of thing only a twelve-year-old would think is funny and a bit “edgy”. But it makes me laugh because my wife had it as her ringtone for a while and it still makes me smile to recall when her boss used to phone her up, out-of-hours.