As you may have guessed by my lack of postage the last couple nights, Tuesday did not bring about a resolution to my high-speed woes.  That day a senior tech called me and went through a couple hours of troubleshooting related stuff with me before concluding that it was probably a software related probelm.  So on Tuesday night I got a copy of XP from a guy at work and upgraded 2000 to XP.  Problem still existed so then I reformatted and put XP on again. 

Problem still existed so I called Aliant back the next day and they, after going through some more troubleshooting stuff told me it was likely a network card related issue.  They suggested trying to update the driver and if that didn't work I was pretty much going to have to see a tech.  Downloading a 3 meg driver proved exceedingly difficult as the drivers XP installed for the US Robotics 56k modem did not work very well.  My download would stutter along and usually stop completely sometime before the end, forcing me to restart the download repeatedly.  Eventually I got frusturated at getting really close (once as high as 97%) so I went and found a new modem driver first (it was only a few k so much easier to download).  I wasn't really all that optimistic about the new driver working as it seemed to be acting pretty much the same as it had when I had 2000 on there (and I know my sister had a working driver for that cause she had it on the network at Dal).  I was quite pleasantly surprised to find out this afternoon that the driver did in fact solve the problem so now I'm back online.  And downloading MST3K eps to boot!

'Quote' of the YesterDays:  Character decides to try to sneak on to a restricted military site by posing as a reporter.  He does this by putting on a fake beard and a hat.  Character becomes flustered when he still can't get in and his beard falls off.  Then he gets arrested because they think he must be a spy. 
This one was taking from the classic 60s Spiderman.  The character who thought he'd have better luck getting into the military base by disguising himself as a reporter (for the Daily Bugle no less) was J. Jonah Jamieson.  Gotta love that logic.

Quote of the Day: "I feel like I'm Han Solo, and you're Chewie, and she's Ben Kenobi, and we're in that fucked-up bar. "
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