They are indeed insidious. Recently I was having issues with my internet speed not matching up to what I normally expect, and occasionally losing connection altogether for a few seconds. Communication with Central Command was sub-optimal. After trying all of the various fixes with rebooting routers, clearing IP cache, etc. I decided to investigate at the source. I opened the phone/cable box in my front yard and discovered it had been infiltrated by the enemy! They had set up a listening post / nest in my communications terminal! I armed myself with chemical and melee weapons and dispatched the foul things, removing their biomatter from my communications array. Internet speeds returned to normal immediately thereafter.
Seriously though, the little bastards had made a nest in the box where my phone and cable pass from the street to the house, and were somehow shorting the lines, causing occasional drops and a marked slowdown in throughput speeds. Everything returned to normal after clearing them out. This is the second time in about 5 years that’s happened. I’m going to need to start spraying inside the box every spring to dissuade them from moving in.
And the name of our lunatic who pulled over and interrupted Shaquille Brewster’s weather report with his lunacy is Benjamin Eugene Dagley. He’s from Wooster, Ohio and shouldn’t have been down in Mississippi because he’s on probation for drilling holes in chemical tanks (!) and assault. Lotta crazy indeed.
There was actually just a fire in the historic buildings in Edinburgh where Rowling wrote parts of her work. Always sad when old buildings catch fire. It’s like they made it this far but finally failed their save.
