Squirrels ate my high-speed access

So our home phone is on the fritz again (no incoming calls) AS WELL AS OUR HIGH-SPEED INTERNET ACCESS. The latter is far more upsetting to me than regular phone woes, as you can imagine. No one can call me? That's a nuisance. I can't reliably access the Web or my e-mail? AAUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!! Hopefully I'll be able to post this entry...the problem seems to be intermittent.

The guy from Bell came by to check things out and says that the main cable serving this area has been damaged; some of our neighbours are affected as well. He says that in his opinion, it was probably squirrels gnawing on the cable that caused this problem.

Did you hear that?

SQUIRRELS.

Grrr....

Hopefully someone will be coming by later today to fix the cable.

I have a ton of work to do today, trying to work around our flakey Internet access, hence this short Blathering rather than a sumptuous description of our Hashimoto experience (that's still coming). Feel free to visit the following instead:

-- Go to this YouTube search and click on "Das Ubertuber" for a strange but intriguing student film project based on Ookla The Mok's song, "Mr. Potato Head."

-- Visit Graceful Edge, a start-up Web site for outdoorsy women. They recently hired me to do a ton of illustrations (I just noticed they even used some in their logo); my illos are mostly being included in their free daily newsletter, Daily Edge.

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