It appears that my DSL connection is back to normal. The key word is "appears". It didn't disconnect at all yesterday from what I could tell. A Subictel technician called me this morning to ask me if my service was operating correctly and I told him about yesterday. He canceled the "job order" and told me to call if the disconnects started happening again. Prior to yesterday, the disconnects were routinely happening between the hours of noon and 6 pm on some days and between 3 pm and 9 pm on other days, almost always for exactly six hours. To me, it was if the service was being intentionally interrupted for whatever reason(s). The fact that it magically restored itself tells me it was something on their end causing the problem in the first place. Oh well, I have the speed-dial number ready to call on a moment's notice.

My laptop computer is not healed. When I put it back together again, the fan worked. It worked for about 10 minutes and I haven't felt any vibrations from it since then. I have a software temperature gauge on my taskbar, over in the corner, giving me a constant readout. If it reaches a certain temperature, I have to stop. The machine has already shut down twice on me while editing an image. If I let the machine cool off for a few minutes, the temperature stays in normal operating ranges.

I spent part of yesterday and part of today working on the other blog and getting it set up with plugins and such. The Redirection plugin works perfectly. I redirected the oldest three movies in the movie category to rewritten articles on the new blog. If you want to take a look, VideoTyme is live. There's at least one addition to the second sidebar that I need to make and there may be other things I need to do, but it seems to be working just fine.

I did calculations last month on bandwidth usage as well as eyeballing my bandwidth usage this month and I should come no where close to using it up with the current setup. I miscalculated at times before and thought I was using much more than I was. Color me stupid. Anyway, my hosting plan includes unlimited addon domains and it wasn't hard to set one up once I realized I was an idiot. I kept getting a blank page and discovered the new blog didn't automatically select the default theme.

It's extremely hot today, so it's difficult to sit in front of a hot computer and do much of anything. I plan to continue with blog reviews and other assorted things when it cools down tonight. A big thanks to everyone who supported me and UV for the past few days.