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If you haven’t read Shooting for the Target, you won’t understand this entry, because it is a part of a series.

I stepped off of the bus at the Greyhound station in Brownsville. A blast of smoggy air from the station greeted me. This one seemed even less organized than the one in Houston.

Derik greeted me. He was all smiles. “How you doin’, buddy?” he said, warmly greeting me. “Good,” I said as we went to the bottom of the big bus to get our luggage.

“Wadya do, bring the town with you?” Derik joked as he looked at my luggage. “What?” I asked, confused. “I only brought two pieces of luggage.”

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I was going to Brownsville.

It all began when my mom’s friend Jenny was talking with my mom. They had a home in Brownsville. I had said, “Oh, it would be nice to go there with you to spend spring break.”

You see, it was spring break in Houston, and I was looking forward to something a little bit more interesting than sitting at home, which was what was planned. Hooray. Big whoop.

But then Jenny said, “Sure! You could come to Brownsville with us, and you could go bird photographing with Derik.” (Derik is his husband, and that’s just a pen name.)

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Yesterday night, after discovering that our new HomePlug AV didn’t work, my dad and I decided to investigate.

We brought my trusty laptop downstairs, and plugged it in. Because our last experiment supposedly had involved some waiting, we waited a whole minute for the Internet to come through.

But it didn’t.

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I thought it would work when I bought a HomePlug AV adapter set, which is a pretty new technology which routes your Internet via electric pulses on your existing power cable.

I know that must have sounded like jargon, so basically it’s something that lets you go on the Internet… using your power line!

I thought it was interesting, my dad thought it was interesting, and the sales guy at Fry’s thought it was especially interesting (it was more of the sale for him, though).

So we spent a hundred and a half dollars and came home with it, happy, tired, but satisfied.

The next morning, we tried it out in the computer room. We plugged one to a plug and connected it to our Internet connection, and another into another plug. We connected the second one to my laptop.

Everything worked perfectly, and I was overly excited. Imagine what this would be like for my mom when we were done and had her computer set up downstairs!

So we brought the big desktop tower to downstairs, connected everything, and…

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