I knew I liked the internet. I didn’t realize how empty and purposeless I would feel without it. Those long hours, spent here at home at night with no way to get online and truly interact with potentially the entire world, passed as glacially as the middle ninety minutes of “Avatar,” and felt even farther removed from reality.

But that’s all behind me now, because my home internet has been restored. I had the guys we use at my company come patch it all up at home, and here I am, somewhat magically reattached to invisible communications passing through the ether. (AKA wifi.)

The technician’s diagnosis:  The storm blew out my router. And when I say “storm,” please think “monsoon.”  The rain we’ve been getting is rain the way that Hell is kinda warm. The  accompanying winds have been umbrella-inverting. Today I looked out my window and saw a woman riding a bicycle in mid-air, my dog in her basket. Today, lightning hit two planes here in Burbank; the theory is that a surge yesterday took out my router.

Now that I have connectivity again at home — and connectivity through a keyboard, not tapping one digit at a time on my iPhone, which obviously discourages writing involved blog posts — I will be getting to that little review of “Under the Dome,” I promise you. I just know I can’t do it it tonight, and probably not tomorrow either. (I am utterly slammed.) In the meantime, here’s my advice:  Just don’t read the book, and certainly don’t buy it. Don’t even be tempted to read it for free.  In return, I promise to tell you why not to do this, and for an added bonus I’ll toss in a post in the coming day or two or three about why I thoroughly hated “Avatar” and hope you did too. (And no, I’m not a hater:  Remember, “Bad Lieutenant, Port of Call: New Orleans” gets my highest recommendation.)

See you soon.

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