Just so no one out there thinks I've died, my cable modem has been acting up all week and completely crashed a few days ago but (knock on wood) seems to be back up and running now. The Roadrunner people first said it was my whole area, then just me, then the area again... And they had me scheduled for a service call next Monday (gee thanks!), but this morning called and woke me up three times to see if I was up again, who says whining loudly doesn't pay off ;-)

I had decided earlier in the week to take a short hiatus from eBay to catch up on things and rest, so luckily I didn't have any regular auctions running. I had placed bids on three items in advance, and won one of them. I managed to get some of my email to come through and got my invoice for the auction I won, and then had to set my email on a schedule and leave it running all day to get a message back out to the seller that I was having problems and would pay her as soon as everything came back up. I didn't want her to think I was ignoring her. I was actually to the point of driving down to the library to see if they had internet access, I probably should check that out for future emergencies.

I still didn't get anything read, I mostly played with my computer and rearranged files and watched the damn cable light blinking on and off out of the corner of my eye in hopes I could at least download all of my mail during the millisecond it came up. I had a bunch of auctions actually all written up in advance and listed them tonight, but I missed .10 cent listing day yesterday, dammit! And no mail service today, which was actually a good thing because I couldn't print postage with no internet connection anyway. Oh well, probably the Goddess telling me to slow down, I've been too busy lately and we have a busy weekend coming.

OK, let's see what I missed this week so far...