The reason updates have been sluggish last week and this: a series of disconnected, disconcerting computer problems, requiring a repair, a replacement, some wholesale data movement and password changes -- and, today, hours on the phone with every third tech-support specialist in Mumbai...
But things are back, and fixed. Today's Best Bets are up, finally. But I'm down, so instead of writing an angry next-day reaction to CBS's absurdly frustrating Paley Museum special about TV's Biggest Surprises, I'm going to give myself the afternoon off. Away from the computer.
The daily grind is doable again, the hardware is fixed, the software is loaded, but I need some space.
In space, I'm told, no one can hear you scream...