However, being that I am on my "new" system, which has DSL, a lot of my "pet gripes" about things LJ-wise are all gone away. That "threading" problem that I no doubt grumbled about (where I'd open an entry in a new tab and it would half load but then go blank again only to appear to be "loading" pointlessly from then on ... requiring a stop-and-reload to see the post) has gone away, and a lot of stuff that was slow is (obviously) not so slow any more.
So ... that's my little ray of glistening sunshine in an otherwise hellish time.