A Writer's dream: Friday and a three-day weekend

Friday at last and followed by a three-day weekend: what more could a writer want? How about a 10-cup coffee maker, a box of 40 new coffee filters and a peanut butter sandwich, everything to keep me happy until I go back to work at my "other job" on Tuesday morning.

I would, also, like an Internet connection that holds and does not disconnect when I am in the middle of a blog entry. All right, considering that my connection to the Internet is through a phone line, maybe I am asking too much. The advantage to having a telephone line hook-up, is that no one can get me when I am online. The disadvantage is that the connection periodically tiptoes into cyberspace.

All right, I admit that part of the problem is my use of tabbed browsing. I like to tab brows; it is helpful when doing research and writing poetry. I can have a rhyming dictionary on one tab and a regular dictionary or thesaurus on other tabs. I do not use more then three tabs at a time. Normally I only use two, but there are times when I need three tabs each with a different websites.

I definitely need DSL; there is no way around it. As much as I like the one main advantage of having a phone line connection, i.e. the phone is busy when I am online. That advantage does not compensate for the disadvantage of periodic disconnection at the most critical time, specifically, when I am in the middle of a thought and composing a sentence or line. My train of thought gets derailed and I forget what I was going to write.