You figure out what the title should be

So I had it all figured out. There was just one problem. How do you put something online if you can't get online?

My home connection experienced some major problems. Apparently there was a glitch somewhere, and my account was discontinued. Getting it back up and working again has been a pain in my you-know-where. It's still not up. I am at this moment sitting in the public library using their connection. So the post that I intended to do last Saturday didn't get up, because apparently when I called beforehand to ask what was going down, the answer I got was that someone at their computer had not done something correct. So the extra week that I was made to wait while the service got reinstalled was spent with nothing on both ends, mine and theirs. I was told that tomorrow my service should be back in operation, but I didn't want to wait that long to post again.

In my desires therefore to be proactive with the situation, I typed out my post in a simple text file, put it on my flash drive, and decided to visit my public library with the idea of doing a simple copy and paste. I usually do visit the library anyway, but I usually also go to the downtown branch because it is bigger and nicer. Seeing as how that branch is out of my way coming between work and a church meeting, I am here in the suburbs (well, not exactly, but same same). I was also going to update my goodreads.com bookshelf (an excellent site for those who like to read and share their love of reading with a wider community). Lo and behold, what do I find? The library network has been set up so that people can see what files are on their flash drives, but they can't open them.

What was the old saying about how some people can't win for losing? Whatever it was, I'm sure they were talking about me.

I obviously have access to post, else you wouldn't be reading this right now. So I decided to post about my inability to post. Not very creative? Well, at the end of my workday throughout which I was forced to use my brain almost exclusively, this is all I got left. Sad, I know, but true nonetheless. My employer is #9 on Fortune's most admired companies list for a reason; we perform exceedingly well, and part of the reason for that is a culture that pushes the people who work there farther and farther. I'm one of those people.

I was told that my home connection should be working tomorrow. We will see. I'm certainly not going to withhold my thoughts if it turns out that a certain red light on my modem hasn't changed to green. And those of you who know me well know what limits my mouth has when I release any sense of scrupples. In a word, none.

OK, I'll be nice. I know I should be. And I (usually) am. I'm just a bit frustrated.

The hardest part of not having my home connection is NOT not having access to email (I know I'm an English degree holder who just used a double negative; sue me). I always considered email as little more than a tool; I get in, use it, and then get out. But with the upgrade in my Internet connection to a higher speed, I have begun to discover something called Internet TV. Since I haven't had a TV in my place for almost four years now, I had escaped the black hole of vegetation that seems to be a mainstay of modern American culture. And I haven't missed it at all. But now that I have some access again, I have become re-integrated with a show that I was starting to get into before I foreswore my TV altogether --- 24. They only have the last three episodes online, so if my connection is not up and running tomorrow as promised, then I stand on the precipice of risking ignorance. A gap will exist in my understanding of events. Well, OK, not a total gap since they replay enough of the main digs to patch it together. But then why watch the show at all? Details, man, the real story is in the details, buried right in there with the devil. I'm afraid I might miss a little of the excitement. And yes, watching Jack Bauer be Jack Bauer is way more exciting than hearing about it. I loved how they started the season with him telling off that smug senator. Plus the long anticipated battle between Chloe and that IT chick at the FBI (sorry, too tired to remember names right now) was just starting to ignite during the last episode that I was able to see. I've been looking forward to that one all season long.

Guess you don't know how dependent you are on stuff until it's gone.