This is a message to everybody who is connected with me on MSN and YiM. You may have noticed that I have been complaining of internet troubles. Well, I can tell you all a little bit more about this.

There have been some roadworkers in town, which are practically doing nothing but tear up the damn road for no apparent reason. Yesterday, there was a SNAFU (Situation Normal All Fucked Up) - they cut through some phone lines, knocking out our phone service, and capping our internet to 500 kb/s. The phone company told us it would be fixed later that day, but by then there was noise on the phone line, interfering with the internet and making the problem even worse, for which I had to shut down my messenger. They then said that it would be the following morning before the problem is fixed.

Now it's the following morning, and the internet has slowed to practically nothing. If you were to combine our upstream and downstream speeds, it wouldn't even make 50 kb/s, let alone 100. And now the phone company is saying the repair won't happen for several days!!! At the rate they are going, it could be fucking MONTHS by the fucking end of this! I swear, I wanna fucking STRANGLE someone, starting with those goddamn fuckups down the fucking road, who fucking started all this fucking trouble in the first fucking place!!

Ahem. Anyway, because of all this, I may not be seen again until the situation has been made normal. I'm sorry to anyone who this may upset, but this is what I have to do. There is no other option, unfortunately. I cannot do a damn thing.

Still, it could be worse. I could be leaving for good. But anybody who really knows me knows that ain't gonna happen!