Sunday, November 23, 2008 - Foscue Creek Park, Demopolis AL
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Mist at dawn - Foscue Creek Park, Nov 22, 2008
My frustrations with a slow connection
In general I've been quite pleased with Verizon's Broadband plan in the year or so I've been using it. It has it's limitations like all cell based services but over all the coverage has been pretty good in my travels about the country. I haven't encountered too many areas with painfully slow or no access. Foscue Creek Park is in one of those areas.
Service here is in Verizon's extended network and of course there is no EVDO high speed access. That's usually ok - but here the connection is slower than I usually encounter in areas lacking EVDO coverage - slow to the point of frustration.
When I called a friend a couple of days back I discovered my cell service suffers from an annoying latency problem. I'm not tech savvy enough to know, but I'm guessing that latency may be slowing my internet access.
In any case, the lousy connection here is interfering with the online activities I've come to rely on since upgrading from my old dial-up service. I miss having access to audio and video now that I've gotten used to listening to or watching those videos you find all over the web these days. But more than that I miss listening to my favorite radio stations on the iPod Touch I picked up this fall.
Most frustrating.
Night camp
Site 45 - Foscue Creek Campground, Demopolis AL
- This is a well maintained US Army Corps of Engineers campground with level paved sites, most with full hookups
- Many sites overlook the water of the inlets off Demopolis Lake on the Tombigbee River
- There is good biking on the park roads
- The campground is pretty full Thanksgiving week and is generally booked solid the weekend of the Demopolis Christmas on the River festival in early December.
- Poor Verizon cell phone service - access is via Extended Network, roaming
- No Verizon EVDO service - access is via the Extended Network and service varies is slow but reliable
- Only 3 miles to Wal-Mart and other services in Demopolis AL
- Find other references to Foscue Creek
- List the nights I've camped here
- Check the weather
- Reserve a site
- Get a map
The Eat What You Fancy Diet
The central plank of Sophie's thinking is that you can eat any damn thing you like, be it chocolate, crisps, chips or cheese ? in fact, that it's good for you to eat what you want, because 'forbidden foods' develop a powerful allure. This disappears when food is freely available, reasons Sophie.... The trick, however, that lets you achieve your natural, correct body weight is to eat only because you are hungry, and stop when you are full. Harder than it sounds, of course, and this is where the Beyond Chocolate tactics come in. [...]