So you know when you set up a new utility like phone or cable and they charge you some crazy installation fee of $100 when all they have to do is flip a switch? That used to really annoy me.

Then, when I was in college, I lived in this house. It was a 10 bedroom house that had recently been moved about 100 yards to get it out of the way of a new highway bypass. When I went to sign the house up for cable, I learned that their were cable outlets in the house, but the actual cable to...well, anything outside of the house...had not been installed. So our $100 installation fee paid for the cable company to send over 4 guys and a huge piece of digging equipment. They then spent two days digging a trench and burying a cable which was then hooked up to the house.

It's people like me that keep your installation charges so high. I'm so sorry.

This is my long winded way of saying that the place I moved into? Didn't have a phone line. At all. Because apparently, that's just the way things work here with new builds. And the builder? Apparently he wired the place completely wrong. So getting a phone hooked up involved two guys who replaced wires and phone jacks, before finally realizing they had to deal with the problem at the main connection which is UNDERNEATH OUR PARKING LOT and thus involved some heavy equipment. But eventually, they prevailed.

All of this sums up to why I haven't updated my blog in about a million years. Because I haven't had internet access, and delicious doesn't work at my office, and I couldn't remember the damn url for the update page, and I'm a big slacker. But hey, now I'm a big slacker in a huge 2 bedroom flat with internet! And a 20 minute commute! 10 of which is walking to the train station! And a 30 minute train ride into London...you know, in case I get bored.

So, I'm back. Hope you didn't miss me too much. Stories and pictures are forthcoming. Just don't hold your breath.