No sooner do I begin playing Half-Life: Counterstrike for addictive, possibly dangerous, mind-numbing periods of time, than my net connection craps out! "Whats this?!" you say. Thats right, for some completely illogical, simply irritating (this doesn't seem to be strong enough language) reason, windows 2000 has decided that I am longer allowed to open socket connections with the evil people on the other end of the T1. No web, no aim or icq. I can't even get to the ever-loving mainframe! The only proof I have that I haven't kicked the fscking cord out of the *nonsense words* socket is the fact that I am still able to browse the god-fearing microsoft network neighborhood.

Have no fear, ladies and gentlemen, I am still able to avoid the awfulness of connectivity withdrawal by the simple, yet excruciatingly painful expedient of booting over into windows 98. Windows 98 has not yet succumbed to the mind-sucking horror of whatever it is that has possessed my win2k install. Its reformat time, baby. Does anyone have several (about 10) gigs of high speed access storage space that they would like to lend me, so that I can run a heavy-duty magnet over my harddrive? Format this!

So, let this be a lesson to yea all. Don't leave Windows 2000 alone with the stapler for more than 20 minutes at a time, because it will try to do awful things to your grandmother. Windows 98 makes my head hurt. I think it's time to start running my PC via booting off of five-and-a-quarter inch diskettes. But first I'll have to tear one of those drives out of an Apple IIe.

Well, I'm gonna go sleep the sleep of the angst-ridden. 'Night