So, as expected, my DSL modem apparently arrived, was found undeliverable, and was shipped back while I was at/around WisCon. They say they’re sending me another one. One hopes it will get here before I leave for Rio Hondo.

But! I think I finally figured out how to get my unnecessarily fancy computer to connect to the internet through my unnecessarily fancy cell phone. I’m sure it’ll be dog-slow, but at least now maybe I’ll be able to write email as well as read it. (The phone, by itself, will log into my Gmail account. The phone will display my mail, in postage-stamp sized chunks. The phone will let me laboriously thumb in a reply of up to 2000 characters. The phone will let me press the send button. The phone will then chew the reply up, spit it out, and laugh at me.)

Which is good, because the chairs in this internet café get kind of uncomfortable after the first three or four hours, and I’m always convinced that everybody over there wakes up and starts talking right after I shut down.