Maybe the powers that be at eBay didn’t like my comments on the site’s fugliness.

It’s not bloody likely, but I’m having a hard time determining why my internet connection was painfully, brutally slow this afternoon — just as the clock for an R2 QaF DVD I wanted expired.

I’d been watching the auction for possible use in my Visual Comm. class next week. I even e-mailed the seller asking him if he could ship it to me in time, provided I won the auction. He said it wouldn’t be a problem, so I went to bed until 4 (headache theraphy.)

When I got up, my browser couldn’t complete a page. The progress bar crawled, never making 50% — in either IE or my primary browser, Phoenix. I turned off images and still got no love, even from Google. Desperate, I called people I knew with broadband. Jennifer was working, Matt}] and B didn’t answer their phones, Carole was at home preparing for a party… I was fucked.

Finally, I got some of the page to load (not the bidding part, mind you, just the top) and it was possible for me to see… “This auction has ended.”

Dude, Meg, I’m sorry.

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