Notes From the Blogmaster

If it seemed to you as though I haven’t been around the last couple of days, you are right. Not entirely by choice, though. As you may recall, I recently upgraded from dial up to DSL. In general this has been very positive, except for one small annoyance-- when I was on dial up, I had an autodialer to connect for me. If the first attempt failed, it would wait for a few seconds, and then try again. As currently configured, I don’t have anything like this to go with my DSL modem. Instead, I’ve got a web page "configurator" and I have to manually click on a button, and then stand by patiently while waiting for it to connect. I’ve never timed the whole cycle, but it is painfully slow. And that’s not even the problem! The problem is, it generally takes many, many attempts, before a proper connection is made. Thus, I get stuck sitting in front of a computer that does pretty much nothing, sometimes for an hour or longer.

And so, for the last two days, I have been on an "internet vacation." I got so tired of waiting for the connection gods to smile on me, that I just said "to heck with this, I’ve got other things to do with my time anyway." Today, however, I was able to get connected reasonably quickly, so, here I am. Please bear with me, as I try and get caught up with all the stuff that went on while I was "on vacation."

But, first, I’d like to really say THANK YOU to the person or persons responsible for the terrific ad in last week’s Giles Free Press. I’m talking about the one that said "read the blog that WKSR fears" -- or words to that effect. That was an awesomely great ad-- it had a very effective message, and (best of all) it didn’t cost me a penny. Thanks, to the mystery man (or men) who wrote and paid for it.