Sat in today reading William Jack Sibley's Any Kind of Luck: Funny, yes, and heart-rending--so well written as to deserve a category of its own. And while I sat, Hawaii Telcom installed my high-speed (11.5 megabytes per second) internet connection, and UPS delivered a modem with all the fixin's. Now all I need is my Mac Pro and my HDTV--as soon as that insurance settlement check is "cut" (as the say); which could be as soon as tomorrow, certainly not later than next week (so the nice lawyer said when I signed the Release of All Claims and handed it in New Year's Eve).