Marooned in cyberspace

Of all the potential anxiety-inducing aspects of this whole adventure, the worst has come to pass: I've been marooned in cyberspace. That is, I'm caught in a limbo between web hosts, and I have no real way of knowing whether or not I'm getting my e-mail as I should. There's a long, sad (and mainly technological) story behind it which I won't burden you with, but suffice to say it's one of those Catch-22 frustrations that are exacerbated by the very technology such problems were meant to be cured by. (See, I'm so upset I'm ending sentences with prepositions already.) So hear this, dear readers:

If you have send me an e-mail in the last 24 hours or so, chances are very good that I have not received it. If I have replied to you, then clearly this is not the case. If you are expecting a reply, or even some vague acknowledgement, but it hasn't come (or worse yet, you have received some sort of bounceback notice saying that the domain does not exist, or is unreachable, or some such hooey), then I ask you to kindly resend. Or better yet, send your most welcome missives to my Gmail account. Which, for those of you who don't know it (since I've almost exclusively been using my Komrad.com e-mail since about '98) is quite simply my first name (my common first name, not my full-on given name), a dot in between, and my surname, at Gmail dotcom. With no spaces anywhere.

I'm not sure why I waited until the last minute to change web hosts, except that perhaps I knew in the back of my mind that Murphy's law would prevail in cyberspace as it does in real life, and I didn't want to be sweating and fretting over niggling little geeky stuff while I was trying to do so many other (more important) things, like pack for my trip. I figured I'd take care of that particular piece of business while in between homes. (As I write I'm in temporarily Ottawa on business.) So now I'm paying for the postponement. I feel terribly cut off from the rest of civilization, and not just because this is Ottawa either. (Where the Internet connectivity goes all wonky if or when it rains, fer cryin' out loud. And it's rainy here.)

I'm so upset I think I need to lie down for a while. I had a big post all written up yesterday ready to go, but I got sidetracked with the e-mail issue. So I'll save it for later. Meantime, stay in touch... please.