Happy Year of the Fire Hog!

We started out the year with our previously reliable high-speed DSL internet connection lumbering about like a well-sated sow. Apparently all pertinent fiber optic cables connecting us to the hub in Taiwan were badly dislodged after the earthquake last December. Dubious, I tried out a couple of internet cafes (and alas!), it’s the same case everywhere, and will be so till the end of this month.

Oh well, least I can do is open my mail and take a look at the e-cards I might have missed last year. That and to fling my wish in the air to the gods of north, east, south and west that this year turns out to be a bountiful year of lechon pig for everyone (high cholesterol count in mind, I mean that in the strictest figurative sense, of course).