So, how was your weekend? If you didn't personally witness a horrifying massacre of men, women, and children while your city of residence was laid to waste around you, it probably wasn't quite as bad as this guy's. The young resident of South Ossetia, the rebel province in the Republic of Georgia that has become a flashpoint for war with Russia, started a Web diary just in time to chronicle the utter devastation of his city of Tsinkvali at the hands of Georgian forces. Posts about his not-so-wonderful weekend follow, thanks to a translation blog kept by an American student who recently completed studies in Georgia. The possibility that the war journal that is propagandized to make U.S.-trained Georgian forces look like barbaric monsters can't be totally ruled out, but even if so, it remains a useful tool for those searching for reasons to be thankful about being in a cubicle on a Monday morning:

FRIDAY
8:50 p.m.: "I'm alive! Thank you all for your support, we are all very much in need of it now. The city is completely destroyed, like Stalingrad, fighting is going on before every house. I'll try to write about as much as I can ... but no promises.

"The phone is dead. If I can, I will write. Right now the Russian army is on the border of the republic. We've captured two Georgian tanks and burned them. We have a long night ahead of us! I don't know if my sister or parents are alive. I saw with my own eyes a father and child burn in a car, but before that, they were shot in the head, brains everywhere."

SATURDAY
6:30 a.m.: "We're ready to defend. They say that [Georgian President Mikheil] Saakashvili wants revenge. Today they killed my neighbor Yanik and his father. He's left behind two children, a daughter and son, one and four years of age. I've found only 6 men from my platoon! The others are gone.... The Georgians are very inhumane. Today I saw them drive by and shoot a child in the chest. A father and child died from tank fire. They burned in the car. Only the mother survived. She was pulling her hair out, asking why she survived."

8:00 a.m.: "They're beginning to fire artillery shells at the city! Rumor has it that the Georgians want to storm the city on foot, we will meet them."

8:29 p.m.: "The Georgians have been storming the city all day. So far we've managed to keep them away. We've burned several tanks. There's been tank and 'Grad' rocket fire all day. The city has been destroyed and is finally level with the ground. Right now we're sitting and listening to a portable radio. Our army is located in one of the closest villages. As of now, we don't know what will come next."

9:51 p.m.: "Many lives have been lost. Many children have perished. Children were run over by many Georgian tanks.

"I am going to a bunker. I've spent the past two and a half days in cellars. This morning I ran from tanks.

"All I have is an automatic weapon. Nothing else. The phone has barely charged, but with this are bigger problems, no electricity. No gas. There are almost no intact homes left. Forget about the news, there's an information blockade! The internet connection is barely working."

SUNDAY
12:08 p.m.: "This morning we broke into a warehouse with weapons. Now, almost everyone has a gun.

"Finally the Russian army has arrived. They've surrounded the entire city. The Georgians have left for home. Now we're occupying positions along the city.

"Today, the rest of the women and children left. Many have been killed."

9:08 p.m.: "There's artillery fire now! The Georgians have begun to fire on the city with 'Grad' rockets and mortars. The Georgians wanted to carry out an air strike today, but so far only the artillery personnel are at it.

"People are being sent to Vladikavkaz in trucks. The awful crying and screaming of women is nonstop. During the day, a Georgian mortar struck a car burning the 4-person family within alive, two children and their parents. In the past 2 days I've already personally witnessed the destruction of 3 families.

"In the village of Tsunar , a tank ran over a mother and continued to roll back and forth across their lifeless bodies.

"We eat what's at hand, we raid stores, army rations, canned foods in cellars."

Looks like his new week isn't getting off to a much better start either. Though putting his Monday post through Google Translate gives a somewhat garbled response, the words "cut off his head" and "corpses" stand out. More weekend war ugliness in the Caucasus can be found here if you can stomach it.