The snowstorm here on Tuesday afternoon seems to have screwed up my internet connection, hence the lack of posting and followup to comments.

And Qwest had just gotten my land line back into service on [last] Sunday, too. Along with T-Mobile's lousy cell service, it's just one more reason that anyone who needs to communicate reliably shouldn't live in the mountains.

MONDAY UPDATE: Qwest at least fixed both the DSL and land line problems quickly...by 11:00am today, after a problem call at around 4pm yesterday (Sunday). Now if I could just get T-Mobile to improve their signal strength so I would no longer have to rely on things like cloud density, migrating birds, and the surface reflectivity of the cliff behind the house to bounce my calls to a cell tower...