FUN IN THE INTERWEB CAFE The couple on the next computer are French. Their brat just stuck a credit card in the disk drive and buggered it. Dad spent five minutes trying to pull it out then got frustrated and SLAPPED the kid right across the face. This was a full on swing of the hand with eyes jarred to the back of the skull kind of parenting. The kid didn't even murmur. Just sat there with a reddening hand print across its chops and shoved a pen into the button that opens the CD drive. French kids are tough. If he'd hit a dog like that I'd have punched him. Along next to them are three American kids playing Quake and all talking at the same time about what is happening on their screens and all screaming when they get shot at and all sporting the same hair style and fashion sense as Jack Osbourne and all pissing me off to the exact same degree. The guy who had this machine before me left his MSN hooked up. I deleted his email and sent death threats to all his online pals. It's the only way he'll learn. Today we got to hang out with kangaroos - actually in the enclosure with them while they slept at our feet and hopped around. Pretty good day. Mike is blogging to: nothing much