Three days in and gridlock has fallen off of the internet already. While everything was working fine when I left the house around 0815, the machine proved unpingable from work on my first try, about 90 minutes later. As it's also unreachable from elsewhere, Something Went Blooey.

This could be any of the following:

1. Theft/Robbery (something I'm more paranoid about now)
2. Power failure
3. DSL Modem lockup
4. Gridlock lockup
5. Failure between Gridlock and the rest of the internet
6. Some other form of witchcraft

2-5 have all happened before. 2 a few times - it may be 2009 but it is definitely not The Future, and outages Happen. 3 was grossly frequent when my sister (and later Randy) was assraping my line on Carey Way, and was a significant issue in the interim living space. It was also an occasional problem when I was just minding my own business - spooling two or three youtube videos would be enough to make the modem throw up at times. As there's no WAP on the line, a locked up modem, if that is the problem, could be a result of operations on gridlock. 4 has happened once or twice, and is usually a result of 3. 5 has happened a couple of times, though if that's the problem it's lasted longer than usual.

I'll know what the problem is when I get home. If it's in the 2-4 range it's fixable. If it's something else, I'll be offline again until further notice.

Whee!

15:59 - a call to Speakeasy to confirm I'm up and running and to make sure my old service is shut off branched into "did anything go blooey?." The nice lady confirmed that my circuit is live, which knocks 5 off of the list.

18:20 - bleah.