No, not like the late Charles Kuralt.  My home Internet connection is once again slowed to the point that dial-up looks like transwarp drive.  It hasn’t happened since I started this Blog Talk Radio gig.  Indeed, the last time I remember it happening was last summer during a heat wave when the last motherboard in said PC burned up in the un-air-conditioned heat.  I even turned it off for three days this week when temperatures here got above 80 degrees.  Didn’t get above seventy-five today, so I left it on, and now I’m back to Pony Express days.

Problem #1: I can’t do any show-prep tonight, because for me, show-prep means staying up all night blogging, and that ain’t happening with the current state of my equipment.

Problem #2: With no Internet, I can’t do the show tomorrow.

Problem #3: I can’t do the show using the other PC on my home network (the one I’m using right now, as you’ve probably already guessed) because all my source material is on the other machine in the form of emailed pages which I can’t access over my network.

Solution?  Do everything from an alternate location.  As it happens, about nine miles from where I sit.  Starting early in the morning.

Further details will, like Dick Cheney’s usual whereabouts, not be disclosed.

As to subject matter for tomorrow, the latest congressional Iraq “debate” will undoubtedly get kicked around, as well as what is beginning to look like the Republicidal tendencies of 1996 reprised twelve years later.

If the show prematurely and abruptly ends, don’t worry, it won’t be foul play.