Should I laugh or cry?

Yes! My home connection lives! :D As I suspected, the problem was the modem, maybe it got damaged during last week's storm, when the elecricity was cut off. I usually unplug the PC during storms, but it happened at night and I had no way of knowing, it wasn't even raining when I went to bed. Luckily I tend to never throw away anything and still had my old modem, I couldn't find the serial cable at first but then I found it and it still works! A modem I bought in 1999 and used on Windows 95! Whoo!

Anyway, I wrote about our new mayor in my last post. Well, I found out that before the Council meeting started, some people from one of the left-wing parties that didn't make it into the Council were handing out flyers to protest against the mayor's decision to remove peace signs from our town name. The coordinator of Lega Nord (our mayor's party) told them they couldn't do that and head-butted one of them! What the hell. Well, at least we now have proof those people can use their head. Quite literally. -__-