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Technology! A curse upon it all! Yesterday and last night my DSL was slow, slow, slow! Bradykinesia  of the pipeline! I finally went to bed without making a post--I couldn't get the system to move more faster than molasses. Today was intermittently better--until I tried to log on to my credit card account!

At first I got a message saying the account was offline and to try later. I did so and got the same message. Then, as I was talking with a Customer Support person (whom I had to wait on for over 20 minutes) she indicated that the account was in the process of being cancelled. She said that I needed to talk with someone in the Credit department about what was happening. She transferred me to the Credit department and, as usual, my telephone batteries had grown weak while talking with the support person and we were disconnected. I grabbed my phone AC adapter, plugged it into my phone, and went through the process once again (elapsed time now about 40 minutes--lots of bad music and messages saying the agents are busy helping others, just wait). This time I made it back with a Credit person, who informed me (after a round of giving once again all my details and security question replies) that my CC had been canceled (while I was on the phone with all their people!) as a safety precaution triggered by what appeared to be some fraud activity for a block of CC numbers! Oh, boy! Oh, joy! That means that I will be getting a new CC which I will then have to propagate to all my auto-pay accounts tied to the old CC.

The past two days have gone by in a blur. I went to movement class yesterday and a resistance training class today. I didn't get much done by way of packing etc. But did do some browsing on the web (when my DSL was working) to locate a PCP in the Fair Oaks area and how I can link him with a new Medicare plan (which I will have to change to when I move there). It's been cooler (thank goodness) and that has made things easier. Have a clear patch of times without classes over the next 5-6 days--plan to clear the storage locker and gather and donate the kitchen stuff. Time moves swiftly and I must fly!

Watched an absorbing film this evening (while waiting for the DSL to heal itself)--Mao's Last Dancer. It's a film based on a true story of a ballet prodigy who was picked up from his native village at the age of nine. He was sent to ballet training facility in Beijing where he was chosen to go to the U.S. in a cultural exchange at the Houston Ballet. He quickly was given a lead dancer's role in the troupe and went on to defect and win world acclaim. Meanwhile, he could not go back to China and was cut off from his family. All was healed in the end of things--including him being allowed to go back to China. It was a powerful and moving story--with some exquisite dancing scenes.

But enough for tonight! Time to let the stars go bright! With endless dreaming in their light!