#4 Treve Fountain

The Treve Fountain is amazing. Talli and I were walking back to our hotel from the Spanish Steps. We turned a corner and there it was. I wasn't even expecting it. It's amazing and the scope of it is astounding. In the US, our idea of a spectacular fountain is a lot of water and maybe a jet of water or two shooting straight up. Whoopee... This fountain is packed with amazing sculptures. I can't even imagine what it must be like to live in Rome. Every day you would walk past monuments like this one and it wouldn't even register since you were late to work. That boggles my mind. I have to stop every time I see one of these Roman marvels. At the home front: Another AT&T guy came today. He worked for quite a while, but couldn't finish the job. Someone will be back tomorrow. Imagine if I couldn't be home for these guys. How does anyone with a normal job get phone service? It turns out that the phone lines at the telephone poles are the originals that were put in around the time the house was built. That puts those lines at about 45 years old. He had to replace line all the way back to the front of the school. The next guy is supposed to finish it off and get us hooked up. At this rate, I might be without internet service for a while. Why you ask? Good question! Apparently, I can't order DSL service until my phone number is active in their system. That won't happen until 2-3 days after my phone is finished getting hooked up here. That may not be 2-3 days. It might be 2-3 business days. That would make it active on Tuesday or Wednesday. Then we can order it. Then It would probably be 7-10 business days until I get the modem and starter kit. That would be somewhere between the 9th and 14th of March. The 14th being the day we leave for Beijing. If that was the day I received it, I wouldn't be set up then until I returned the day before Talli's birthday on March 20. Who knows if I'll have time to set it up then. I might not get it set up in that case until March 22. Since the 27th of this month is when I get disconnected from Comcast that could be a gap of three and a half weeks without internet here at home. Of course, I won't miss it when I'm in China, but it's the principle of it. Best case scenario: I have no service for close to a week. Lousy AT&T.