I received sev­er­al emails over the past day ask­ing why the blog was down…  Well, it seems the Sub­ur­ban Sur­vival Blog was under what is called a Denial of Ser­vice attack or some­thing not unlike that, slow­ing the serv­er down dra­mat­i­cal­ly.  Unfor­tu­nate­ly, we are not able to con­trol these attacks just defend against them and hope they do not hap­pen again.  If any­one was incon­ve­nienced, I apol­o­gize.