Customer What?

SBC/Yahoo can take a flying leap. They told us last week, as we were hauling boxes and furniture out of the old house, that they would have our phone lines and internet connection transferred by the 25th.

As of 6:00 PM on the 25th, still no internet.

So we called them. Somebody forgot to put our order through, and now it's going to take until May 3 to get the internet connection up and running again.

And do you think they offered any kind of compensation or reparation for the inconvenience? Of course not. They'll be kind enough to not charge us for the past two weeks. Of course, that's a lie - they will charge us for it, and then I'll have to be back on the phone with them in two weeks, arguing to have the charges removed.

Meanwhile, I'm tearing through Joseph Ratzinger's 1968 offering, Introduction to Christianity. The man is impossible to follow sometimes. He is a consummate modernist, at least in terms of his language of choice.

Much, much more on that at a later date.

Here are the five latest essays at the web site:

Mary as Mediatrix of Grace: A Trinitarian Approach (Part 1)

Known in the Breaking of the Bread: Emmaus and the Eucharist

Seven Deadly Sins of Spiritual Piety: The Necessity of the Dark Night of the Soul

The Deficient Prayers of the New Mass: Easter Sunday

The Deficient Prayers of the New Mass: Low Sunday