A Girl With a Sword

hook up

Today the nice young man from the cable company came and hooked me up some internet. Now I have it, it's only in the livingroom, but I do have a wireless router. It's just in Pennsylvania with all the rest of my stuff . . . So far it's been as on/off a connection as I've been having everywhere lately. Internet Man said it might be the damn VPN I have to have for the University network. Well, we'll see how this goes. What I'm really happy about is that now when I wake up at two in the morning and can't remember the name of that movie I saw a few months ago I can look it up and feel better.

This seemed particularily appropriate (click it to make it bigger):

(This is PhD, a comic strip I discovered last fall. There's a pretty little link at the bottom of my side column if you want to read more of it. I love it, but I think academic novels are the best thing ever so that kind of explains the appeal.)