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I know it is not the first time i have gone a week without a post. And it most likely won’t be my last. But at least this time I have an excuse. I didn’t have internet access for about five days.

If you had told me, even a week ago, that I would have to go a few days without the internet, i would have shrugged and said, “so what?” It wasn’t like I was online everyday. I have gone through great stretches of time without using a computer, period. But the past few days, i think I might have had withrawal symptoms. I wasn’t having cold sweats and getting the shakes, but I was definitely Jones-ing to get online.

Actually the craving wasn’t so much to go online as it was craving the ability to go online.  If I wasn’t on the internet, I wanted it to be because it was my choice. It wasn’t, and I struggled. It was like I had a piece of rock and no Bic.  Of course, a real junkie would have bummed a light or stolen one.  I just waited patiently (mostly) for my ISP to get their act together.

They had to send me a new modem.  There was nothing wrong with the old one.  It was still working.  It just wasn’t working with my new computer.

A new computer.  Like the modem, there was really nothing wrong with the old one.  Yeah, it got a little sluggish at times.  Yeah, it was freezing up more and more. But, it was still pretty much serving my minimal purposes.  I never even thought about a new computer until I got an offer that seemed like a really good deal. I conformed it with a couple of people who are knowledgable of this sort of thing, and they basically told me to jump on it like it was a horny bottom splayed out on the bed with his man panties halfway down his ass.  How could I resist?

Well, the computer came a day earlier than it was even supposed to be shipped.  I went through the inolved process (more involved than I thought) of untangling all the wires and cables to remove the old computer and carefully ran the wires cables of the new computer so they would not get tangled (I swear I did the same thing with the old one when it went in six years ago, but somehow the cables magically turned into corn rows under my desk). All went well (but slowly) until the modem.  The old one wouldn’t install and it had to be replaced.  And I had to wait.

I guess the proof that I am not really like a crack addict is that I didn’t undo all the wires and put the old computer back in place for the two days (which turned into five) that i would have to wait.  But then again, maybe I have the potential considering that, after missing the UPS guy, I called and convinced them to ask the driver to arrange a place to meet me to pick it up my modem before he returned to the distribution center.  It doesn’t help the scenario that the drop off happened in the corner of a gas station parking lot and barely a word was spoken between us. He knew what I was after and I knew he had it. I just couldn’t wait another day before injecting myself with some (high) speed.

So here I am, sitting at a new, frighteningly fast computer with a keyboard that just doesn’t feel quite right under my fingers yet.  My instinct is to go back to the old one. The one that is so old that the “A” and part of the “S” are worn away.  The one that feels so comfortable that it’s like a good pair of underpants.  But, like other things in life, I need to step out of my comfort zone a bit.

But then again, like crack, it’s just a slippery slope.  Next thing I know, I will want an i-Pod.  That, of course, will be rock bottom, so somebody promise me that you will stage an intervention.

BTW, I’m not smart about the transfer of to a new computer, so I lost e-mails (among other things) from the last week and a half or so.  If I have not responded to you, I apologize.  I’m never very speedy at responses, but I’m not usually this bad.  So, now you know why you have not heard from me.

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