I am sorry my latvian friend who's-avatar-rivals-my-own-in-extreme-coolness, it appears that I left moments before you posted your last reply. Back then I was doing just as you said, surfing sciforums on an extremely slow computer in massachuesetts. It appears that we are in the same situation, since yesterday I've been bored out of my mind here hoping to get a chance to surf the internet since there is nothing , absolutely nothing to do here. They have cable tv which can't hold a candle to satellite, their powerful computer convienently broke days or maybe hours before we got here, and to top it all off I'm in a suburban location so there's nowhere that I could even walk to. Before, back home, I was having fun, toying with my new RAM, writing, planning, scheming, but here, I just lie around, occasionally drawing maps and writing out languages for a new fantasy I'm working on. But that's only entertaining for so long, I spent all day today doing that and watching headline news, a channel that has only about fifteen minutes of material that just loops over and over again.
Well, now I've vented, your situation can't possibly be worse than mine. If you'll excuse me I have to listen to this computer click and whirr for several minutes while it processes this information as fast as an old powermac...