Flirting With Connectivity

I still feel a certain aversion to the Internet (nothing in particular caused this; it just happens periodically), but I really do want to get back to reading my LJ friends list soon, as I miss y'all and am apt to wonder at odd moments, just to give a couple of examples, "What's txtriffidranch growing these days?" or "What Cthulhoid horror has greygirlbeast photographed on the beach lately?" My dad gave me a nice, new, comfy, not-yet-clawed-to-death desk chair, so I really have no excuse not to