Two days after we left, the Internet access to my house went down about 1:50 am. The next day I was able to get a Qwest tech into the house to find that the Qwest modem had died. He was able to install a new device, but couldn’t program it. So, everything was still inaccessible.

I sent out a status about the problem on Twitter, but had no idea what to do next as someone fairly computer literate would need to be in front of the computer inside my house and I wasn’t sure who I could ask.

Yesterday as I was driving to South Carolina, a fellow I know who is an excellent systems admin at Idaho State University asked me on Twitter if I needed some help as he noticed the blog was still down. I called him and he said he’d have time that evening (Sunday) to go over to the house. I emailed him the info and he got it running. Hurrah!! I will be home somewhere about the 28th or 29th and everything otherwise would have had to wait until then.

A huge thanks to Ben (and his able assistant daughter)!!!