Internet Snafu

For the diligent few of you who are actually following this blog, my apologies. I haven't posted in a while, and I'll tell you why. Ok, laziness and neglect aside, I came back from Bangkok to discover that the internet at our house was no longer working. A perplexing situation. We got the landlord to help, and turns out the internet company had turned off our internet because we hadn't paid the bill for September. INSERT SAD TROMBONE HERE.
Just to reassure the parental types reading this, I swear, I'm not that broke. The thing with bills here is that you never know when they will be collected. What happens is some late Sunday or equally random night there will be an aggressive ringing of the doorbell. Then you will step outside to find a little old lady on a bicycle or motorbike with a stack of papers. She will hand you one of those papers, written entirely in Vietnamese, and demand money for something that you're not quite sure what it is. You will give up trying to decipher the bill and hand over the 100,000 or 1 million dong she demands. And then, voila! You have just paid that month's electricity or water bill. Given the completely erratic nature of bills here, I guess it's not so unreasonable that we would miss a month.
But thankfully we got things sorted out (mostly thanks to Big J) and now I can post this message to you from the comfort of my bedroom. This also means I can stop trying to sneak some quality Facebook time while at the office.