Ranting about the Pakistan Hadji-net

Okay, so Jack got my Valentine’s Day care package. I had asked him to wait to open it until I could see on webcam, because he had asked me to burn CDs for him with music and instead I got him the new iPod Nano in metallic orange (the same colour as his beloved Mazda 3 sport). He had an MP3 player but its old and come on, its Vday and he’s far away and he asked for music. There are other things in there too, but I just wanted to *SEE* his face when he saw the surprise… it means a lot to me to see when people open their gifts. So maybe I’m being a little bit selfish, I don’t care.

ANYWAYS.

He got the fricken thing on Wednesday, and texted me (MSN is hooked up to my cell for when I’m offline, or he can’t send texts from A-stan any other way) to say I needed to wake up so I could watch him open it. For the next THREE HOURS he signed in and out of MSN as the Hadji net that he pays $100/MONTH for (ridiculous!) was doing crappily and not having a good connection strength. This was until after MIDNIGHT his time. So he had to go to bed, with no way of saying goodnight etc, let ALONE to see the package (I would have settled for a goodbye at this point, the poor man!!!)

We have also tried to coordinate our schedules today; he was online for only a few minutes and I was at a friends house. I raced home and saw him online, said hello and he said "I need you to see me open this on webcam so our friend can get the memory for his computer that you sent with it!!" and then POOF. FRICKEN GONE. Offline, not to be seen again. I had just, JUST said to someone "Yay, he waited so I’ll get to see him open it!!" and then had to follow that minutes later with "F*ck YOU HADJI NET!!!" It seems no matter how HARD we try to just have a LITTLE HUMAN CONTACT there are so many things outside our control.

Not to mention the guy is AT WAR. You think the internet could know this and cooperate for FIVE MINUTES. It’s not just me who wants to see him open it, I’m sure its also him who wants to open it and its sitting in his cell  er, tent along with not much else to distract him from the surprise of it all and if it were ME I DOUBT I’d be able to wait five minutes let alone going on three days… 

JEESUS.
*end rant*

Its not just the big things that suck about Jack being gone. The little things suck too. WHY?!!?