The Visible Woman...March 10, 2003

Monday, March 10, 2003

			change Our ISP is unilaterally dismissing us. I guess I'm glad because their service is awful. But what to switch to and how to do it seamlessly? Personally, I wouldn't care if I didn't have the Internet or my domain's e-mail working for a couple of days. FFP, however, is still running a business. So, yeah, it needs to be relatively seamless. I spend a bunch of time talking to providers on the phone, being relatively dissatisfied with all their answers, prices and packages. In the end, though, I decide to order a cable package for business. They will support the domain for mail, they will install tomorrow. This means that I can put the service in and test it somewhat 'side by side.' There will still be the matter of eventually switching the domain so that their mail service takes it over. I go to Radio Shack (to avoid CompUSA or Fry's in their hugeness and the traffic at almost five o'clock). Sure enough they have a router and a hub...I buy stuff to set the network up in parallel, sort of. I worked out, finishing a book I bought in New York (Motherless Brooklyn about an orphan mobster with Tourette's syndrome). I biked and rowed and exercised my legs. In the evening, I lazed around, ate salmon, drank wine and consumed some TV and newspapers. It's hard to resurrect a day in the past from scribbled notes. The day seems lost and drifty and false. There is a message, I think, in trying to fill in dates so much later. It shows how little today will really contribute to tomorrow.

	shop window -- SoCo "On several occasions I have actually read parts of my diary aloud to someone. But too much 'publicity' is destructive to a diary, because the diarist begins, unconsciously perhaps, to leave out, to tone down, to pep up, to falsify experience, and the reason for the undertaking becomes buried beneath posings." Gail Godwin, A Diarist on Diarists
	JUST TYPING The march of days. Each one holds something. You know you get up. Have your coffee. But what else? What are you thinking? Who speaks to you? What changes?

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