Temporarily Out of Service

I learned a big lesson yesterday - it isn't enough to have a surge protector for your electrical cords during a bad thunderstorm. We should buy the surge protectors that have them for the phone wires as well.
I'm in a temporary location on dial up, but even if you have high speed internet and have a phone cord going into your computer as back up Internet, you can still suffer a lightening strike, as I did yesterday.
I'm on my 11 year old laptop, so posts will be suspended until I can recover my files from my other computer.