Thank you Scotty – warp speed Mister Sulu.

After twelve days of slowness resembling a drug-induced fog or bad science fiction timewarp plotline, things clicked, the relays reset, Big Brown delivered a new modem, three lights shone bright green, and wham, we’re back up to broadband speeds. Time to see what this sucker can do.

If I didn’t know better I’d say my former ISP was engaging in a little old-fashioned retaliation. If I were more paranoid I’d say they deliberately failed to release my phone line so my new DSL provider to start my new service. If I were more cynical I’d say they came up with their response to my solution in about thirty seconds and just kept me on hold for an entire hour to because they needed to have someone listen to their muzak.

But I’m still on dial-up and will be for at least another week or two, so I just sit here biting my tongue and thankful that that’s all they’ve done to me so far I’m just tired and these are all just unfortunate coincidences.

Wow! Earthlink sure knows how to cancel an account. And just like the air being ripped out of your lungs at 30,000 feet, here I am at 34.6 K on the dialup modem. Without even a cute little mask to suck on. No streaming content. I miss my NPR on iTunes already.

It looks like one thing I didn’t plan for was the loss of the Earthlink server for outbound POP e-mail. Oh well – I can deal with webmail for the outgoing for a few days.

Off to court. Back soon.