A post from Kat
As many of you know, my move knocked me off of Internetland hard. First there was the DSL company that said I'd have to pay $250 to rewire the DSL lines in the new house because their company didn't put them there. Then there was finding that the regular phone lines are soooooooo old that they can't carry a consistant signal to a dial-up company....which is why the previous tenant installed the separate DSL line.
Then we decided to go back to cable.... but then we found out that the cable company never bothered to rewire our (then unoccupied) house after the big storm in October that had FEMA out here acting like snow in Buffalo is normal on Columbus Day!
(It is not. The leaves had not changed color yet, and the sticky snow-ice pulled down hundreds of thousands of trees and powerlines. The only trees in Buffalo without damage were evergreens- which were evolutionarily adapted to deal with this....deciduous trees are not designed to withstand tons of snow on their leaves)
So, we should be back within the next two weeks....this has been very good for me, truth be told, I've done a LOT of soul searching and editing and stuff like that. Look for a flurry of stuff by May.