I apologize for my light posting lately.
It’s been a forced exile, and I admit to going through mixed emotions and withdrawal. I miss reading other blogs, I miss conversations, ideas, and really miss bloggers and readers. I miss linking and thinking. I miss blogging on.

The difficulties with the ISP upgrade resulted in at least one good thing.
They finally believe that I have a hacker.
And, they recognize it is in their best interests to assist me in prevention.

This hacker has never stolen anything off the computer.
They play, annoy and flood at whim.
They want me offline I guess. The game is to torment and frustrate. Perhaps even scare and provoke.
My identity hasn’t been taken, nor have any files.
I notified the ISP over a year ago that there was someone on my machine.
But I didn’t know enough of the lingo to be taken seriously.
The recent upgrade caused my line status to out of synch and out of service, even though I was online.
Enough tickets have been compiled that the ISP is put things together and along with the abuse reports they have realized their resources are being hijacked too. Department A is finally communicating with Department B and me, the customer.

Yes, I’m tired, frustrated, and not able to purchase what I need.
As I work through this step by step, it remains difficult to keep the computer online for more than a few minutes.
I’m also angry. I will not tolerate abuse.
Finally my ISP understands that is a viable and realistic complaint.

Some of what happens on this computer is almost funny. It’s like a silly child playing in someone else’s sand box. But this person isn’t a child, they are technically very astute and not about to be caught.
This computer and blog are not their sandbox.
I’m not about to quit either.
We all have better things to do with our online time than deal with hackers and their motives.
One in five home computers will be hacked for information and subsequent theft.
I get my usual share of hack attacks, worms, trojans, adware, spam and viruses passing by and occasionally through.
I’m really missing blogging. I need the interaction, discipline and rythym of it. I’m doing all I can to resume normal posting as soon as economically, technically and humanly possible. Thank you for your patience. Blog on!