Is this thing on?

I was hoping my weekend away from the intarweb would have given Comcast a chance to fix my intermittent connection. Two modems and a few calls later, it's still flaky at best. It's my guess that someone's connected equipment is splattering RFI in the particular band used for the modem communications, and this noise happens to not be anywhere around while the techs are trying to sort things out. Oh well, they'll get it, sooner or later. In the meantime Verizon is about to start digging up the neighborhood for the new FiOS fiber-to-the-premises do-everything service. Not sure if this will be in the cards for me in the future (it's possible though, since higher bandwidth is available for less than I am currently paying). With my luck, though, my cable will end up getting cut by the digging and laying of the fiber. I'm to the point of getting both cable and fiber for redundancy.

Good weekend playing gay uncle with the kids up in PA. Poor little pico-pooch Bear is glad to be away from the constant 'attention' given him by the little house-apes. Cool double-score of the weekend was coming across free firewood in the form of a tree that had fallen across the road which was cut up and bucked into woodstove-sized logs and left in the ditch/shoulder. That find will have to be tossed off the truck after I post this.

I'm going to be busy this coming week, and with the expected lame connectivity, I doubt I will be able to keep up with LJ posting from friends much less do anything in the way of my own entries. Consider this a hiatus. I'll be in NYC on Feb 5,6 and 7, but being that this is during the week, I doubt if anyone in and around the city would be up to doing anything. I could be wrong (as usual), so if this is the case, let me know. I'd love to see y'all.

Gonna hit the 'Update' button now. Wish me luck.