Trundling Through Tuesday, my FiOS is fixed and the Stupor Committee laid an egg

My FiOS is fixed! Michael the Verizon Dude showed up a few minutes after 8 AM and promptly found the problem — bugs in my ONT. Yes, actual bugs nesting inside the box and apparently eating the wiring. Ewww.

He swapped it out and now all is well.

Hey, how about that Super Committee! Officially, they "failed."

Was it gridlock? Or partisanship? Perhaps a little of both?

Nah, I'm going with cowardice. We have the best Congress money can buy, and money can't buy statesmanship.

Pundette says the whole exercise was a fraud from the get-go. She might be right. They set out to do nothing, and they succeeded.

It's no wonder Smitty nicknamed them the Stupor Committee. They planned to fail.

Government mandates, they never stop coming. Next up from the bureaucratic busybodies? Home sprinker systems. Everybody in New Jersey will have to get one. Because, you know, if it saves just one life it's totally worth the astronomical cost.

You know what would save way more than one life? Banning abortion. Curiously, none of the bureaucrats want to talk about that.

My wife got a new phone — the Droid Razr™ by Motorola. It's pretty cool. But she couldn't get her Yahoo! mail to work with it no matter what she tried. Gmail worked fine. (Natch!) She called Verizon and the customer service guy sent her a Yahoo! app to try. And it works! He even called her back to make sure she was happy. How's that for #win?

Now I'm jealous, because I've got an old AT&T BlackBerry and AT&T doesn't offer very many of the cool new Droids. There's the Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket, which just came out and (finally!) does 4G LTE, but it doesn't have a real keyboard like the BlackBerry. Am I crazy to still want a real tactile keyboard?

Yeah, I know, I'm just crazy in general. It's part of my charm. And it's why you keep coming back! You are coming back, aren't you? Because I'm feeling lonely. Lately it seems like if it wasn't for the spambots I wouldn't get any blog comments at all. Is there anybody out there? Just smile if you can hear me…

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