And by "early", I mean 2:48 PM local time - I just woke up.
Many guys here play Battlefield Bad Company 2 on their PC and recently a patch was released for it. However, it requires each computer to download the patch using the lovely patching platform. Great idea in the ease of simplicity, not a great idea when you share a slow satellite link for an internet connection and when the patcher disconnects and restarts the download completely. An issue that is further complicated by having several computers trying to download the patch all at the same time. I looked everywhere for a manual download the patch and I have found none. I'm in the process of writing EA to see what they can do for us here. HALP US JOHN KARY WE R STUK HEAR IN IRAK!
I finished downloading Goldeneye: Source and I hastily installed it, giddy as a child, only to realize that I need the Source SDK installed. 2.2 GB of SDK... So that's downloading now. It's going to take a while, but at least it'll be a stable transfer. Hopefully I'll be up and running for some Goldeneye action in the next few days.
Between waiting for a response from EA and the Source SDK downloading, it looks like I have plenty of time to devote to Eve Online! Yippee!