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The title reflects how our stupid RoadRunner connection has been for the last ten days or so, culminating in being able to get on for only brief moments yesterday.

The stupid connection even turned me into a page from my old psychology (yeah, that's what my degree is in) text book. You know the experiment where the rats hit the bar for a food pellet? You know how the one rat stops hitting the bar if it doesn't give him a pellet but the other one goes on hitting the bar until he drops dead if you reward him randomly? Substitute "other rat" with "Kymberlie" and "drops dead" with "3:00 am" and you have my evening last night.

Once I dragged my tired ass out of bed this morning, I found the connection completely dead (no even trying to fool me with a random reward) which means that I had to crawl around under desks and look for a phone line so I could get on dial up. Let me repeat that - a freaking dial up.

With my slow ass Internet connection, the day kind of sucked. For whatever reason RoadRunner has decided to work again, so that makes me happy. However, I am still tired from playing the rat, so I am soon off to bed. Good night, everyone!

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Comments

chu! chu! chu!

for the video game enthusiasts out there.

.: jon said on June 1, 2005 02:00 AM :: link it :.

I got charter and so far after about 3 years its been good. I love the online all the time :-).

.: Terry said on June 2, 2005 06:37 AM :: link it :.

We had that problem with RR about two weeks ago.. they came out, did something on the pole, something inside and we've been fine lately.

.: Pam said on June 2, 2005 10:41 PM :: link it :.

Seriously, next time that happens, head over to Chez Tremoulet. We've got some WiFi waiting for you, baby. We'll hook you up.

.: Christine said on June 3, 2005 12:37 AM :: link it :.

Hey jon: I got it, even if nobody else did. Hey there space cats! ;)

.: Meredith said on June 21, 2005 11:34 AM :: link it :.

You're too early! Come back at May 31, 2005 11:09 PM to see this post.

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