Yes, not paying your DSL bill can be quite a problem. In fact, it can be such a problem that you end up havin the whole thing turned off, thus you come out of the whole affair looking like an asshat.
Esspecially if you've just printed out a whole bunch of shamelessly propagandistic stickers and stuck them all over the place. See, I did that. And now, all these people who think my sayings are cute/stupid/rad/assholic have spent the past week trying desperately to get to gism and have had no luck. They probably figure it's been hacked, taken down by the RIAA, or worse. But in fact, it was simply my own foolishness that fucked it up.
So life was pretty bad last week. But then stuff started happening slowly. For one thing, Tuesday was the return of the son of the spawn of PC Baangs. My story on Counter-Strike clans was nominated for a PEN award, and then the photographer from that story contacted me about possible future colaboration. Sign, perhaps? I dunno. It sounds great, but I have no idea where to go with it. The original piece was over 9 pages, 6000+ words. I was lucky to get such a long piece published. I don't know where to go to find an outlet that would want an even longer version.
Perhaps I'll find something, who knows.