Tonight, the unthinkable happened.

Our DSL was disconnected.

My little world has fallen apart.

A few months ago, I changed our home phone number to a "metro line". "The only thing that matters," I told Jim, Diana, and everyone else I spoke with in the SBC order department, "is that we don't lose our DSL."

They all assured me that we would not lose our DSL.

And, the telephone number changed, and we still had DSL.

But, that was just a cruel joke designed to make us think all was well. After a few months of not paying for the DSL (and not knowing this since the phone bill gets billed to a credit card), the DSL was disconnected tonight.

This always happens at night when you can't do a damned thing about it for hours or sometimes days.

So here I am on a ridiculously slow dial up. I am going through withdrawals for my broadband connection. I have some kind of odd pains and I feel like kicking someone.

I don't think I am going to be able to sleep tonight.

The Hall family in New Jersey got an extra surprise this Thanksgiving. Along with their bag of giblets, their frozen turkey came with a frozen turkey head.

I agree that it is gross.

The funny thing is that Mrs. Hall is either upset or surprised that turkeys have heads, or so it seems.

"It's gross, sickening," said Hall. Hall said the turkey head is a tough image to get out of her mind for Thanksgiving.

We're not going to cook any more turkeys in our house," said Hall. "We're going to cook but we're going to cook ham."

Hello! Pigs have heads too!

Most meat sources have heads, last time I checked.

If we were the lucky recipients of  a turkey head, we'd most likely have a puppet show. We would probably fight over it. And we would have taken a much better picture to share.

Sears bought Land's End.

Kmart bought Sears.

Kmart owns Land's End.

Holy smokes! Now where am I going to buy my pants?