I sit waiting this morning for a callback from the ADSL provider. Perhaps to accentuate this, the weather is turning suddenly bad. I guess now we get the leftovers of the great storms of Iowa a few days back.
Update: situation solved. Things work better if the lines are plugged into the right sockets.
I don’t want to talk about it any more. I could use a thunderstorm now, but they seem to have left.