Only 12 and a bit hours left

Well, in a little over 12 hours I expect to post these 11 or more posts, not from my mother's via sneakernet, but from RivenDell himself, once again net connected. Yup, The Shaw tech should be here sometime tomorrow around noon to connect my cable modem, and make sure it actually works right. I have been offline since July 26th, and when I go to bed tonight it will be exactly 14 days. 2 weeks. That may not sound like a lot to most, but for someone like me who's major parts of life are online, and who went crazy at 10 days offline intermixed by increasing frustration that was only resolved momentarily by the fact I could use the computers at JobWORKS, 14 days is an incredible aggravation. The nearest unrestricted computer is at my parent's, and is limited on use time. I will be really happy to be able to finally use my computer, with my settings, and chat with my friends without all the BS that I have to go through at my parent's of looking up URL's and webmail interface mail browsing.

I think I will be the first on the list, which will make my visit around 11 or 12, and hookup completion around 12:30-1 PM, assuming all goes right, but I have hopefully worked everything just right to make sure there is no chance that they cannot get a hold of me and get my net hooked up. My mother keeps telling me that since I have TV it should be enough to occupy my time, and if it were a month or two from now, that might just be right, but now it is a major pain, since all the shows I watch religiously except a small number of shows are in weeks of reruns. This makes the nice fact of having the digital cable already hooked up not as cool and useful. Unfortunately the one thing I was really hoping to get done for today, figuring out the cell phone deal through IDC, never got done, as while I left my cell at home, and on, there were no calls to it, as it tells me that I missed a call, and the number of calls missed, and there were none on the display. Hopefully this can be worked out by Monday or Tuesday.