So I made this avatar today.

The Internet Saga is a long tearjerking mehfest, but here it is:

I moved to a fairly inexpensive apartment.  Since the Internet is Important and Srs business, I called Uverse to transfer as soon as possible.  They said, "No can do-oh till January 15."

Unacceptable.  Need it nao, or I will be sad.  So I called the next day and asked if they had a cancellation.  They did.  I got a guy out here two days later.  An hour into his visit he informs me that the phone line has been cut from the building.  Nobody in this building has a landline.  Not even to call 911.  That isn't the horrifying part.  The horrifying part is the fact that I've apparently got a bunch of neighbors who aren't on the Internet!  He couldn't fix the issue.  I seethed.  I made him call the Uverse office and cancel my service, and dammit no way was I paying the $100 fee for that guy to come out and not give me what I needed done.

I called Comcast while the AT&T guy was still here and got them to commit to coming out the next day to set up broadband Internet.

The guy came out and LO!  No cable jack is wired to the place.  Apparently not having a phone line or a cable jack is illegal.  I called the landlord early Sunday morning to inform him of this fact.  Meanwhile I had the apartment manager (Omar the Supe) come out and tell the Comcast dude that it was okay to drill holes in the wall on the second floor so I could have my Internet.  Luckily, this guy saw my plight as something worse than death, so he pounded a cable into the wall two stories up, and drilled a hole straight into the computer area.

I had Internet two hours later.  It would have been sooner, but hammering nails into concrete walls is apparently very difficult.

The night before I got Comcast set up, I had an online DJ gig to play.  I have a little Myfi widget from Verizon, but you know, wireless is really suck for DJing on Second Life.

I did manage to do a couple of hours, with only a couple of annoying stream skips.  The music's all over the place, but it all worked together pretty well.  The only issue I had was choosing the instrumental version of 30th Century Man by mistake, but I think I got away with it.

Because of the stream skips I didn't bother to podcast this one.  However, here's the play list: 

Garbage - Not Your Kind of People
***Request*** Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home
The Cult - Big Neon Glitter
Frank the Baptist - Eskimos and Butterflies
Blacklist - Poison for Tomorrow
Darkest of the Hillside Thicket - Burrow Your Way Into My Heart
Red & Stimpy - Happy Happy Joy Joy
Berlinskibeat - Kakwa Moma
David Bowie - Port of Amsterdam
Schelmish - Ring of Fire
Wall of Voodoo - Far Side of Crazy
Billy Squier - My Kind of Lover
Scott Walker - 30th Century Man
Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing
Sisters of Mercy - Vision Thing
***Request*** Carlos Santana - Black Magic Woman (Rudy Retro Dynamic Cool Remix)
***Request*** Cliff Richard (DJN Remix)
The Puppini Sisters - Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend
Andrew Sisters - Rum and Coca Cola (Jojo Effect Remix)
Max Raabe and his Palaster Orchestra - Around the World (Dance Remix)
***Request*** Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo - Pico and Sepulveda
Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer - How Many Brilliant Minds are Lost to Work!
Parov Stelar - Nosferatu
Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo - Witch's Egg
The Wombats - Let's Dance to Joy Division
Lindsey Buckingham - Bang the Drum
The Pierces - Secret
Altered Images - See Those Eyes
Rockpile - Teacher Teacher
My Chemical Romance - Teenagers
The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs
Florence + the Machine - Kiss with a Fist
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
Adam and the Ants - Viva le Rock
Shriekback - Nemesis
Pop Will Eat Itself - Bulletproof
Public Image Ltd. - World Destruction
***Request*** Renegade Soundwave - Probably a Robbery
***Request*** Einsturzende Neubauten - Youme & Meyou
Erasure - The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Work started up, and I got busy. But not so busy that I didn't have a way fun DJ set tonight.  It was mostly gothic stuff.  Mostly.  Things get a little wacky from time to time, depending on who is listening in.  This was an extra long set, as a friend of mine requested that I play a bit longer than normal.  She had a friend over who was enjoying the music for the first time.

^ denotes a request

Camouflage - Love is a Shield
Cause & Effect - Farewell to Arms
Mea Vita - Snezhinki (Last Phase Remix)
Mirrors of Mind - Dellamorte Dellamore
Unheilig - Das Leben Ish Shoen
Austra - The Future
Danielle Dax - Tomorrow Never Knows
The Chameleons - Mad Jack
Specimen - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Malign - Skin and Lye
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary (Secret Sun Remix)
Zeromancer - Chrome Bitch
^ Max Raabe - Tainted Love
Gary Numan - Are 'Friends' Electric? (Icon Mix)
XP8 - Muv Your Dolly
* Skinny Puppy - Worlock
Ministry - Land of Rape and Honey
Collide - Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum
Thou Shalt Not - If I Only Were a Goth
Voltaire - Brains!
Apoptygma Berzerk/Apotheosis - O Fortuna Never Dies
Noisuf-X - Toccata Del Terrore
Tanzwut - Toccata
* Bauhaus - The Passion of Lovers
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead (Exhumed and Consumed DJ Cruel Britannia Mix)
Joy Division - Digital
The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
* Razed in Black - Oh My Goth!
Dark White - Call of the Wild (Wild Mix)
John Foxx - Underpass
Fad Gadget - State of the Nation
Celebrate the Nun - Ordinary Town
Rhombus - Open the Sky
Screaming Marionettes - Like Christabel
The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's Train
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig
Killing Joke - Eighties
A Flock of Seagulls - Ordinary Man
Nash the Slash - Swing Shift
* The Birthday Party - Mutiny in Heaven
John Cale - Fear is a Man's Best Friend
Pop Will Eat Itself - Ich Bin Ein Auslander/Auslanderween
Helium Vola - Nummus
* Klaus Nomi - After the Fall
Until December - Until December
Camouflage - The Great Commandment