Alright, here's the deal. I still don't have the internet at home. Take it from me: Verizon DSL sucks. I figured, "What's the difference between cable and DSL?" Well, it turns out there's a huge difference, because I can't get the DSL installation cd to run properly. So, what I have is worse than dial-up, because at least dial-up eventually dials up to wherever it's dialing. Basically what happens is this. Every time -- I'm not exaggerating; I mean literally ever single time -- I click on a link, I get the "cannot find server" error page. Maybe, maybe, if the thing feels like being nice to me, if I hit "refresh" it eventually loads correctly. So, sending an email or doing something that requires information to re-load over several pages (like, I don't know, say, blogging) is impossible, because it won't remember the stuff I entered on the previous page by the time the new one loads properly. In the end, I end up spending so much time trying to do simple stuff like sending a dang email that I can't get anything else done.

Now, I know that in theory I could have been doing what I'm doing now, which is writing posts at home and posting them at work. But, (a) I've only been working a few days, and I'm trying to look like a busy bee for a while, and (b) I sort of have this hope that the Verizon thing will clear up sooner or later. Seriously, though, this has been going on for over a week and it's freaking ridiculous.

So, I've already made an appointment with the cable company for cable internet, and I'm going to cancel my Verizon service as soon as that's set up. But, the bad news is that it will probably be a couple of weeks before I'm fully up and running at home. Until then, I'm going to write at home and post at work.

What that means is that my posts might have fewer links that I would like, both because of the time and propriety of linking to certain things from work. If Fitz gets especially bored, he might want to fill in some spots, but I don't expect him to, and I figure everyone will muddle through.

As for my guest-bloggers, I can't put into words how appreciative I am of their help. Clearly, this place would have been a ghost town and we would probably have lost almost all our readers had it not been for them. But I'm finally releasing them from any further service here. I can't keep using them as a crutch. I probably won't get around to removing them from the blog contributor list for a few more days, so if they have anything more to say, feel free to post away. But, for better or worse, I think I'm back in business. Stay tuned.