I spoke to the folks at my internet provider and a man there said, "I'm amazed you're even getting online at all." My area is full of protesters so it's full of reporters and police and there are at least six helicopters overhead. Apparently, the broadband is being taxed to the max so I guess that was the source of our problems. And I am not suggesting that our problems matter at all compared to so many other things going on in the neighborhood — and the country — today.