Greetings from Edisto
So I am at the beach right now, sitting on the deck listening to the waves crash on the shore and enjoying a cool night breeze (probably a little too cool for most, but the night is relaxing and besides, the unsecured wireless network I am barely holding on to only works on the deck. If I sit facing the house, or stand up).

I was online inside using dialup, but the annoyingness of having but one phone jack, and the slowness of it got to me so I began wandering the house in search of a wireless network. I found that the one secure network I've been picking up all night has the password of "admin", however I am unable to get a proper IP address on it, but in my wandering to find more reception for that one I found an unsecured network I am able to get on. And it is faster than the DSL at home (probably cable).

The beach is nice. It rained on the way up here, and it stopped raining when we got here. We were able to walk on the beach for a while and then ran to the local store for food to fix dinner with (we had Zataran's Red Beans but needed meat, got some good sausage to toss in and some brocoli to steam) and all that. The only downsides of this place are: The tap water on the island is salty and the odd assortment of mismatched pots and lids/lack of good knives.

My parents and little sisters were here in October and said the water was nasty and Brita filters did not help. They did not say the water was salty, so I just assumed it was sulfur or somesuch. When I started to steam the brocoli the water smelled like the ocean. This is when my mom told me the bad taste was salt. There are ice cubes in the freezer made with tap water and they taste like salt. The city gives away free water at city hall (probably some sort of dispenser since it is available all week) because of this, and they acknowledge the issue in the literature about the city, saying that it is good for cooking with since you don't have to add salt. Ha, what a positive spin they put on the problem!

Anyway, so here I am, relaxing and having a good time! It rained earlier tongiht but has stopped. The weather reports call for rain tomorrow then clear skies the rest of the week. We are here until Wednesday.

Happy New Year to you if I am not around until then. I probably will be around, but I may not post again until then. Have a good one!
- posted by Nick @ 12/30/2007 02:37:00 AM | 0 comments