Comcastration Redux. Once again, we're on dialup. The Fine Folks at Comcast (TM) are
“trying to correct connectivity issues in your area”, according to
the tech support drone, so I've had to rig up our Airport as a
temporary dialup router.

Paula's thankful to have any connectivity at all — she's been
working on a project for one of her grad school classes that requires
Internet access, and she's been having trouble getting enough uptime
to get it done. But I have a heavy bandwidth dependency, so my style
is being severely crimped.

Soldiers
aren't excited about the $10,000 re-up bonus the Pentagon is
offering.

“Not even a million dollars” would make
Corporal Will Tate stay on after his four-year stint is over in July,
he said as he burned waste material on a cliff overlooking the Tigris
River near his base in Saddam Hussein's hometown
Tikrit.

As the song used to go:
Re-up
and buy a brand new car
Re-up
Show what a fool you are
Re-up
I'd rather throw up
Than be a lifer, a puker, a fly…
(Why do you call 'em flies? Because they eat shit and bother people!)