Before blaming one’s internet connectivity problems on one’s spouse who insists on running a Windows 98SE box with no virus protection on it, always consider that the ages old modem you access the internet with may, in fact, be faulty.

The cable guy just left. We now have a nice, new, tiny Ambit U10C018 modem. I didn’t do any speed test with the old one, so I don’t have numbers to compare, but perceptually, I am surfin’ the ‘net blazingly fast. Yeah! It works! And the cable guy managed to swap out the modems without losing all my email addresses and email (which happened the last time)!

Life is good.

Life will be better when I finally get some damn sleep. Just as I decided to lay down on the couch and grab a nap, the phone rang and then the cable guy was here. He was here forever too, which is a good thing. He checked all the lines, even the main one out on the street, and he wouldn’t leave until the TW system caught up and actually activated my modem and he could verify that everything was working as it should. It’s always nice to get a smart and thorough cable guy.

I guess I am going to go try to grab a nap now. It’s getting pretty late to do so, but I could really use more sleep right now. I don’t think we are going to go out anywhere to eat. I think I’ll convince Lin that, owing to my having to fuss with Time Warner all day and being so damn tired, we need to get fast food tonight. This weekend, maybe I can hit him up for an anniversary dinner at Mongolian BBQ (or somewhere nice but not TOO nice). I need me some sushi soon!

I have some other stuff to tell, but it has to wait until later. My eyes are closing on their own.

When I finally got Lin to install and run an anti-virus and anti-spyware software, we were both a little amazed his computer was clean of everything but one search toolbar installed in IE (which he doesn’t use anymore), and that was one he chose to install (Google or Yahoo or something). You’d think, after years of not running any anti-virus software, that box of his would have been infested!