The coughing attacks almost feel like they’re getting worse. They don’t come all that frequently, but when they do, they’re more violent and involved than they used to be. I look skeletal and I realized today that I’ve been quite weakened. But I’m really quite a baby — many people go through much, much worse than this on a daily basis. Last night I was reading Jesus the Christ and came to a discussion of the parable of Lazarus the beggar and the rich man. As I read about the dogs licking Lazarus’s sores, I quickly realized that I can’t really complain.

Well, AT&T will be coming by sometime this morning to install broadband. Should be pretty nice. I’m most likely going to buy a router (probably a LinkSys BEFSR41 Etherfast 4-Port Cable/DSL Router) and set that up as well. But I probably won’t do that today.

Broadband is pretty darn nice. Download, that is. Upload is only 128kbps, which is still better than a modem but not up to par with DSL. So don’t go with it if you want to run a server. The AT&T salesman actually told me the upload rate was 256kbps. I’ll pester them about it later when I’m not sick. It’s incredibly nice being able to be on the Internet without worrying about tying up the phone. And of course the speed is nice. And no dial-in wait. I need to get that router soon…

Spent three and a half hours hacking away at Proofread (the Distributed Proofreaders Gtk+ client). It’s coming along pretty well, although of course the bug list is growing too fast for psychological comfort. Speaking of proofreading, I’ve now passed the halfway mark on typing in The Ball and the Cross. I should have passed it a long time ago, but I’ve fallen behind.