Limited updates today.

I've been trying to keep my weekday posting frequency fairly high, but that's difficult today. My internet (and cable and home phone) is nonfunctional at the moment, and has been for most of the day. Hopefully, Mediacom will have things sorted out by the morning (or earlier), but until they do the only place I have internet access in my house is one corner of my front porch.

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So long as I have my internets, this rocking chair, this here porch, and that shotgun, I'm a happy man.

I remember the bad old days, when there weren't any zombies and interwebs were freaking everywhere. Limitations build character in a man!

Also, posting videos of exploding zombies on YouTube is good, wholesome fun. Says so right here in the good book.