Why I have been absent from this blog for 2 weeks

It all began about 1 month ago. About that time, the the company upon whose server this site is hosted was switching appmagic.com to a new server machine and they lost some information and modified the permissions information for appmagic.com. As a result I lost several of my entries for a time until they were restored. However, at this time the problem with the permissions was still not rectified. In fact, it was not until about a week and a half ago that the permissions were fixed. But alas, there is more. When I arrived here in California on June 22nd, our internet connection abruptly halted due to the fact that one of our routers blew up. After using a neighbor's computer, we finally acquired another router via eBay. We bought a used one because a microwave WiFi connection is almost ready to deliver high-speed access to our area, but the project had been delayed because the owner of land on which the last repeater needed to be placed could not be contacted. When the router came in the mail we thought that finally, after 1 grueling weeklong marathon of running the entire corporate center of AppMagic Inc. without an internet connection, we were saved. I must permit myself the use of another cry of "But alas!" here. The seller had charged us $18.50 for shipping and had sent us the wrong model of router! He had also failed to understand the rules of the type of auction that he had used, but that is a moot point compared to the saga at hand. This model of router would still work, but it would not be without its drawbacks as you will see. It took nearly a week of heavy work to configure and troubleshoot the endless problems of the router, while all the while I could see, even from the heralded, over-heating server closet that constitutes my computer workspace, that our lack of connectivity was suffocating everyone. Like one who gasps for air when there is none, we tried to get even the smallest shread of access to the internet where ever we could: library, neighbors... Massive amounts of work have now fixed and restored our livelihoods to their full potential, and we rest in peace with dreams that perhaps have a glint more happiness than before.