wow. four days without posting seems like a lifetime. after the move, i temporarily lost broadband and was forced to go back to a dial-up connection, which became a little too much for me to take. but lo! i’m back in the saddle with a cable modem. i had a bad exerience with cable around 3 years ago, which was due to mediaone obnoxiously oversubscribing their networks, but things don’t seem nearly so bad now.
i’d like to switch back to speakeasy because their customer service was always so good, but because i’ve received a new phone number they have to wait for a month for me to be entered into a mysterious, official telco billing database before they can initiate anything. this means that, if everything went optimally well, i’d perhaps get service in two months. ahhh, the reminders of how much fun it is to operate in monopoly markets.