The Internet Saga Continues

Two important things occured yesterday afternoon. The first was a visit to our apartment by Dave to look at the bidet and Fulvio and Marco to deal with the internet/modem issue. The bidet will need more tools than were available so we will continue to function (easily) without it. The internet posed more of a problem. After an hour of fiddling with both our laptops and the ipad, Fulvio expressed the opinion that perhaps the brand new modem was not working correctly. He called Telecom, we have DSL service through our phone provider, and after being on hold forever was informed that somehow in the 10 days since the service was installed our number has been placed on the "black list". This is usually done to people who are delinquent with their bills, etc. It will take them up to 48 hours to get us off, We hope it will be sooner but, 18 hours later we are still waiting, Unfortunately, the two day window takes us to late Friday afternoon and if nothing has happened by then we have little recourse but to wait out the weekend. We have been assured by Fulvio that once our service is returned that our computers should all be good to go with minimal fuss.

The second significant event is that we located our car! It had been parked in a small lot outside the city walls for most of the week we were here. We managed to find it, start it, and navigate our way to the Leclerc Supermarket outside of town where we picked up a few things. So, now we are officially mobile beyond the pedestrian and public. Of course, we still don't actually own the car. We are not allowed to do that until our immigration process is complete and we have our permesso. Once that goes through we can do the sale, register it in our name, get insurance, and do all the little things we need to do to finalize our ownership. Right now we are driving it as friends of the owners who have graciously continued to insure the car themselves.