The internet’s supposed to be turned on here on Thursday. In the meantime we’re “borrowing” the internet from someone nice enough not to change the defaults on their wireless router, which isn’t exactly lightening fast at the best of times. In case everything goes pear shaped, here’s at least one post a day. Possible topics for discussion: the State of the Union, Australian desserts, poetry, song lyrics.

Pre-post update (predate?):

I’m letting this post in twenty minutes (it’s 2.40 now) because it took all morning to get exactly one page to load, check my email exactly once, and get exactly one news story to open. I’m trying someone else’s network now, but it’s still pretty dire.