I'm in Vermont for the weekend. It's fantastic and should be a chance to catch up with old friends, chill out, and engage in epic days of fucking around.

That doesn't mean, however, that I don't still have work to do. Which is why I'm so frustrated that my cell phone doesn't work and my wifi card doesn't work with the router here.

The cell is reasonably understandable. I'm in the middle of nowhere Vermont. But there is cell coverage here. It's just not AT&T's GSM Network. But seriously, I don't think about every possible place I'll go when I sign up for AT&T's new and improved network. I just want it to work.

The wifi card is a little silly. We're more or less freeloading off the upstairs tenant of the house, sure. But at the same time all the laptops with G wireless cards work. Mine, with a B card doesn't. The likely culprit is just range. The G cards get weak signals that the B cards can't pick up. But again, I just want it to work.

We live in a high tech world. But when that technology isn't reliable, it doesn't help you get your work done. It just makes you have to drive into town to buy an ethernet cable so that you can share the ethernet connection of one of the working computers. And it makes you use a calling card on some landline that nobody knows about. Eventually we'll sort this all out and technology will just work. Let's hope that day is soon. I'm not sure how much more of this I can take.