Monday Stream of Consciousness: February 8, 2010

i have to play catch-up this week. there is very little i hate as much as playing catch-up, with anything, not just my blog. however, work has been so busy this week (this is certainly a good thing, given the condition of the economy, i know!) and my home internet has been flaky. hence the reason for the Monday post showing up on Thursday. my internet has actually been flaky since October, but has gotten considerably worse over the last few weeks. the outages are completely random, both in timing and duration. it happens any time of day or night, lasting from ten minutes up to nearly two days. and of *course* every time there is a service tech in my home, all the lights on the modem shine happily, strong & steady. intermittent outages can be nearly impossible to diagnose, much less solve, when they aren't happening during a service call, since no pertinent information can be gathered. bottom line is this has lead to delays in posting and limited time to visit other blogs. i am, however, ripping through my little projects at home, provided they do not require use of the internet in any way. at any rate, be patient with me. i hope i will be back to normal soon.