"Life... is a curious thing."

So it turns out that moving can be very bad for one’s Internet access.

I had planned to post this on Monday, but without Internet access, it is difficult to post. (Grr…)

My unfortunate husband has been on the phone today with various techs from around the globe as he attempted to find out why our service had not yet begun from the company-which-shall-not-be-named…service that was imperative to start by today due to his work responsibilities.

But it was apparently not to be, for reasons which are very difficult to understand, let alone articulate. And apparently the customer-service people of various continents with whom he spoke shared this inability to understand or articulate that there was any problem, let alone a solution.

Indeed, the trouble with trying to find solutions to these issues is that it doesn’t matter from which country the customer-service representative happens to hail: it seems that almost all of them are very fond of circular scripts…scripts which eventually recycle all the prior question-and-answer material after a time to a beyond-exasperated would-be customer. Sigh…

In the meantime, three cheers for my husband, who has come up with brilliant stop-gap measures for now while we wait for the service in question to begin.

And finally, here is the three-days-delayed, for-modern-times-condensed edition of that famous poem by Edgar Allen Poe: “The Raven.” (And yes, I promise it was worth waiting for.)

I am usually very grateful for modern-day technology. But even so, every now and then I’m grateful it wasn’t around back when some of the great magnum opi of the English language were written. This insightful comic reminds me that quite a few college English literature classes might have a list of very different assigned readings if those magnificent authors of the past had had the distractions of today’s 24/7 technology to write up against.

Might Poe’s “The Raven” have looked a lot more like the graphic below had he been tethered to his work cell, personal cell, laptop, work computer, Kindle, Twitter account, Facebook updates, and eBay auctions, to name only a few?

We can only speculate, and so I’ll leave that to you to decide.

Long live Poe’s Raven, in whatever form we may find him!