How do you tell it's about to rain in St. Vincent?

No, it's not not cats meowing, dogs barking, or goats bleating… (Goats bleat, right? I mean, I should know, I hear them enough…)

My automatic rain alert is the sudden, inexplicable loss of my internet connection. We pay lots and lots of money to the [1] local cable company for a 256k broadband cable modem connection. They must use a satellite uplink to connect to the rest of the world, since every time it rains, the internet goes out, just like satellite TV. However, upon calling them the other day after multiple outages to ask their refund policy for lack of providing service, or for lack of providing a certain level of service (i.e. other times when the internet goes at about 0.3k/s), they stated that there were no such things as refunds. This is why I hate monopolies - they can provide poor service in violation of a contract without recourse. Well, the only thing we can do is reduce our plan to a cheaper, lower bandwidth one if the speed they promise isn't guaranteed anyways…

Alright, back to studying Pharm for the 2nd midterm exam tomorrow. Though [2] this author claims it is an urban legend, I am starting to believe in 7±2 (a 1956 theory where the human mind can only remember 7±2 related items… I mean some drugs have more side effects than that, and we have to remember all those plus mechanism of action, kinetics, indications, contraindications, drug interactions, etc… Ugh.)