Some of you might have noticed that I've been remiss about updating my blog, or for that mater, my normal quotes and other trivial blithering on facebook and twitter. Well, whether you consider it a curse or a blessing (or something in between), I'm back. You see, Bakersfield had a bit of bad weather, some rain and wind that would have been routine in much of the country, but was, for this area considered an emergency, and AT&T's cobbled network of 19th century technology patched together and last maintained, I assume, sometime in the mid 1950s, failed.
Worse yet, because they were taken completely off guard (surprised, I expect, to find that anyone actually still used land-line and DSL), it took them forever to get the grand old copper kluge back on it's casters. The result is that for several weeks I got to experience life with out telephone, Internet, and because I get all my TV through Hulu and YouTube, no TV either. Not to mention no online gaming and pr0nz. But I'm back and I've written a comic-strip about the incident (think of it as a sort of natural experiment).
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