Into the Mouth of Madness...Almost.

Our cable Internet service was extremely dodgy for about two hours this evening. I'm talking about sub-300-baud-modem speeds, when I could get anything to work at all. It wasn't pretty, and a lesser man might have succumbed to madness and perhaps resorted to cannibalism. It's not a natural reaction, to be sure, and I wasn't even the slightest bit hungry, but that's always the first thing I think of when human beings are pushed to the point of insanity.

That my family survived this near-catastrophe is a testament to my strength of will, if not my willingness to exaggerate a temporary, minor inconvenience to such ridiculous proportions. While on hold with my Internet Service Provider, I installed Sins of a Solar Empire and played several games of Spider Solitaire, neither of which is as drastic an action as cannibalism, at least not in the circles I frequent.

Now that service has been restored to normal, I wonder if maybe I should have taken just a tiny bite of the little fellow that is often seen running around our house. I'll bet he tastes nothing like chicken.