Given the circumstances, I'm using a neighbors internet who generously allowed me to use it after some good old fashioned manual laboring. Between a hired hand job and helping them move out fallen trees/prettying up their yard, the subject of internet came about somehow and I found out they had it. They ended up both paying me for the work, and telling me the password to the router and said to 'go nuts'. It's pretty much free internet for me, as she only uses it for email checking and facebooking. The only problem is that it's quite a ways away, and is a wonder I can pick it up from my little shack. We're talking at least 500 feet, give or take the location of the router in their house. But finding out the hard way, both my AIM and MSN/Windows Live have connectivity issues, half the time never sending or giving me my messages, resulting in frustrating 'u there?'s, seemed ignorance, and such.

However, Skype still works well. It seems to automatically cache messages and sends them when a disconnection/reconnection happens.

For all my AIM/MSN contacts, if you got a Skype and wanna still talk to the vorish fluffdragon, gimme a hollar over notes or something~