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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (64873)	3/10/2004 7:27:51 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Amazingly, we do. DSL over the phone line. Hey -- Kansas City has nothing on us! And though we don't have cable, we did manage to latch onto a dish that works fine, at least when the power is on. We haven't hooked the dish and TV up to the backup generator. So the time you most want to watch TV -- in a snowstorm when the power is out and you can't read because your eyes can't handle reading by candlelight -- you don't get to because the generator is mostly for running the water system (it is NO FUN having the power off for 6 days and no water) and the heating system (equally no fun when the power is off and it's snowing hard and your only heat comes from the fireplace which smokes whenever the wind is over 30 mph), and the microwave (hot food in the middle of a snowstorm blackout is a godsend), but not the TV or dish.