Connected...again

My modem died yesterday morning...or more technically sometime during the night before that. It was working reasonably ok the evening before and then yesterday morning I got up and tried to get online only to discover that there were no lights whatsoever on the modem. I tried it in several outlets and resetting etc., but no luck. So amazingly I got the modem today even though it was theoretically being mailed today. So blog world I am back online! (Despite the fact that you probably hadn't realized that I was even offline).