Hello

Just so you know, this latest long blog silence is not the usual kind of long silence, where I can't even come up with anything uninteresting to post. No, this long silence is because my phone service (and therefore my DSL) is hosed. I'm posting this from-- well, not from home.

You may remember I have a history with Verizon. The current outage stretches back several weeks (during most of that time I had my DSL, but not phone service, so I didn't really care), due to a combination of typical Verizon service standards, my neuroses (basically, after an unsuccessful service call, I got so frustrated I couldn't call them to come back), and my heavy work schedule (I already spent one morning sitting around waiting for the service guy, I can't kill another half day this way). So I'm not sure when I'll actually get the problem fixed, although I'm becoming sufficiently aggravated that I will soon work up the energy to call Verizon again.

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That is a major bummer. We are also on Verizon and hate dealing with their customer service. I don't think it is fair that any company - phone, cable and the dr. office - can get away with having you sit for long periods waiting for them. A 3 hour window is just ridiculous. My latest IT problem is reoccurring issues with the web host for my sites. Their customer service is really bad. I don't know if they are also clueless or just assume that I must be clueless and can't possibly understand what is going on. And they frequently don't go back and read the previous messages in a ticket. Anyway - they are evil.

Did you see that story on black holes on the internet? That can't be good.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24067737/

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Bummer. Are you still without internet? Argh.