If you didn’t figure it out…

…we’ve been without any internet connection at all since the Saturday before Christmas. Tom stopped at the place in Spanish Lookout where we purchased the dish, and discovered that we’d have to switch billing companies for more satellite bandwidth (or something like that, anyway), which involves reprogramming the modem. The resident expert said that he’d check our billing so it happened as close as possible to the end of our billing cycle, which, it turned out, was apparently that day since by the time Tom got home we had no internet connection at all. So, we took the modem over to be reprogrammed on Christmas Eve Monday with the understanding that it could be done while we waited, but found that it couldn’t be done until Thursday. Tom waited until the Friday after Christmas for them to finish it, and it still wasn’t done when he went to pick it up. It seems that somebody was complaining louder than we were, so we didn’t get it back until just a couple of days ago. And, Tom’s parents arrived on New Year’s Day, so even though we picked it up we haven’t had time to do anything with it until now. Now to the task of catching up with all the people who probably think we’ve been eaten by jaguars…