Back to Civilization... and to Work

Finally got my cable TV and broadband internet up and running. It's weird how cable companies here in the US always schedule appointments by giving you a "span" which the technician will show up. It would be no big deal if it were 30 minutes or 1 hour. But in this case, it was a 4 hour span... 12 noon to 4 pm! Of course, the technician only arrived at 3:45 pm, effectively wasting 3 and 3/4 hours of my time this afternoon.

Anyway, after that, I'm back to civilization. It's difficult to imagine life without internet access. I'm not even sure how everyday life was like over a decade ago in 1995 when we first had our ultra-fast (at the time) 28 kbps dial-up connection. I also got a new land line phone, courtesy of the company that should not be named.

So there, no more going over to the Brooklyn Public Library simply to VPN to work or trying fruitlessly to *ahem* borrow from the neighbors. All this just in time for a multitude of conference calls starting just about tomorrow (welcome back to work!).