Hihi

Am on Ivy right now typing from Flow. There was a bunch of issues which, I realized about five minutes ago, boil down to one thing: EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON HAVING A STABLE INTERNET CONNECTION. Which ATT mostly failed to provide over here. You log into the OS with your google account, and all the apps load from webpages as well. For a while all things related to google account failed to load, giving me messages along the lines of "this webpage is not currently available", which I think mostly have to do with the fact that for some reason these things are hypersensitive to connection stability. (This morning there was an hour long block where the connection is kind of shifty. Don't ask me why. It happens randomly.) Yahoo loaded fine though, but my point is, if your entire OS is based on the internet, for crying out loud, the launchers should tolerate the fluctuations a bit better. Or reconnect faster. Or something. (I have no idea exactly what's going on in the OS / server system when the google-based stuff failed to launch (well, all except Google.com, which will continue to run, I'm convinced, with minimal interrupted bandwidth until the moment of the apocalypse).

The flash.so files also keeps crashing. It's annoying (and sad -- I was looking forward to trying out the Aviary apps too, since I never tangled with them before -- not to mention I need the image editor to deal with the screenshots). I have no idea what's going on. I need to finish addressing the Christmas cards and try to plan out next week's groceries. Hopefully this will post on the first try. If you don't see my square brackets of edits after this, then it had.