I don’t know what to call this post!
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
- Friedrich von Schiller
The world is still round, the sun is still shining. All seems bright and beautiful. My internet connection is back! 
All the cables had been cut! Yes! Some cruel vengeful soul had cut the cable lines that carried all the bytes of data I wanted to transmit from my room. I would have forgiven that dilapidated being, had they been able to repair the problem on time. But the fates were conspiring against me; it took them a never-heard-of-before FIVE days before I could check out my mail.
And as a result I had to spend my birthday ( that I share proudly with Rubin “Hurricane” Carter ) climbing up trees in my hostel compound, kicking away at a random football and eating my way through what would have fed an entire army.
