As an update to the previous entry, my internets seem stable again.  And I only had to leave work 30 mins early thanks to Qwest’s awesome policy of having the tech call you as he’s leaving for your place so you don’t have to wait home all day for the dude to show up.  To test to see whether or not it was still broken I opened up ten tabs of the local transit system bus schedule and reloaded them rapid-fire.  I must have loaded over a hundred times in a minute, which means a thousand pageviews a second from my IP hitting the same bus schedule page over and over again.  I’ve probably got some poor technician there scared of a DDoS or something, but — I’m back, bay-be!