At the moment, there’s no easy way for me to dig back through this blog’s archives to find the last time I let a day go by without at least one post published. I’m pretty sure it was a looooong time before yesterday’s lapse. (UPDATE: See below)

Oh well. Streaks end eventually. It stings only a little, in that a commitment to daily posting 365/7 is pretty much the sole rule I maintain on this site. But it was out of my hands. It seems that while Time Warner Cable was preparing a debt offering ahead of its anticipated spin-off from Time Warner as an independent public company, it let my TV/Internet pipe go black. The connection was cut last night at about 6:30, just as I was wrapping up a fairly productive workday from home; as of this writing, it’s still down.

I could have trekked out last night to a *$ and tried my luck, but it was storming (which I’m assuming was the reason for my outage), and it didn’t seem like an imperative. I crossed my fingers for a restoral, but by the time 10PM rolled around, I figured it was a longshot to get the television and the Web back again before midnight. So I lived with it, and am starting a new streak with this post.

Hopefully I’m back online sometime today. As always, it’s a brutal shock as to how dependent you become on modern communications infrastructure.

Meanwhile, today is my birthday. Thought I’d mention that. I guess I’m ushering in my 37th year slightly off the grid — a form of nostalgia…

UPDATE: Well, now I really feel the sting of failure. I checked, and it looks like this was the first day’s lapse since an extended absence between December 12th, 2006 and January 17th, 2007. That was due to major technical problems with my former webhosting company, which led me to my current host company. So basically, a year and a half of consistency down the tubes…