The fact that I am actually awake and cognizant and not looking like death warmed over is a testament to my personal fortitude.

Or my lunacy.

Last night, for some explicable reason, I lost all connectivity to the Internet. I couldn't log in via dial up or the cable modem. After talking to THREE Linksys people and FOUR AOL people, I finally had to resort to the one thing that I didn't want to have to do -- a complete system recovery. I did this at three in the morning and finally got everything done and reset at about 3:30...of course I had redownload a few things since they weren't recovered (Kazaa, the entire Microsoft Office package, codec...things like that). My computer isn't 100% functional again but I crawled into bed around 3:30 - 4:00 and got up three hours later and here I am at work -- on a rugby day no less -- feeling fresh as a daisy.

Sigh...I'm such a freak.