off to the South-Wet

[julesjones]

Sending a wet Bank Holiday weekend in the South Wet. I think if any writing gets done it'll have to be whatever I can manage with fountain pen and dead tree, because I can tell there will be protests from my tendons if I use a flat keyboard for more than looking at my email.

It occurs to me as I type this that it might actually be worth my while buying a duplicate keyboard to stick in my travel kit. Of course, it would be useful to actually finish and sell something this year so that I have writing income from which to deduct business expenses... In fact, it might make sense to do that anyway, and use the new one as the primary, so that I have a UK keyboard at home as well as at the day job. It gets annoying on occasion to not have the pound sterling sign on this one. Then I can put the old US keyboard in the travel kit.

I'd spend some of the free time this weekend looking at the short story markets to see if there's a likely home for a couple of things already on the hard drive, but I will be bandwidth-challenged. I should probably add a PAYG broadband dongle to that list of things I can and should buy as a business expenditure item. Must ask heleninwales for details of hers, because my usage pattern is that it would get used quite intensely for a few days every 2 or 3 months, and no use in between, so I need a tariff geared to that.

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[llygoden]

My usage pattern is exactly what you describe: I can go for months without needing the dongle and then I'll have a couple of days out or a weekend somewhere and want to be able to access the net while away from home.

After researching the different options, the only one I found that would preserve your credit and not wipe out unused credit at the end of each month was Vodafone. I was a little worried about it working with the Eee because Linux wasn't one of the supported operating systems, but it was fine. Coverage seems reasonable too. It's not actually very good at home, but of course when I'm at home, I don't need it!

(PS This is me, heleninwales, but I have a different username over on Dreamwidth.)

[julesjones]

Thanks for that. I thought from what you'd mentioned that you had the same sort of usage pattern I envisage needing it for, and it saves me poring through the fine print for them all. :-)