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I managed to get online on Friday night from Castle Fox, but about five minutes' up-time was all that was available on Saturday before the connection died completely. Telephone line continues to mainly consist of static and yes, I know, I really need to get it seen to. But it won't be this week.

'sides, not spending evenings glued to the PC might not be a bad thing anyway.

P and I saw Hull City sweep aside the mighty Wigan in a crushing, I tell you, crushing 2-1 display of awesome. To be honest, it really didn't look as though Wigan had turned up - they didn't seem that interested in attacking our goal, but we were mightily glad of Geo's goal that put us two clear when Wigan got one back. Injury time was nerve-wracking, accompanied by a deafening howl of the home fans whistling for full-time to be called...

( I finished The Reality Dysfunction )

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: work

Castle Fox interwebz are still best characterised as 'sporadic'. Hence why I wasn't able to post Ch 27 of the OotP re-read until just now.

'tis at least a nice day outside - washing currently drying, by which readers may have deduced that my reassemblage of the washing machine doesn't seem to have been as immediately disastrous as any number of worst-case scenarios might have played out. Am still treating the object with a fair degree of caution, though.

P and I are about to head into town - 's been a quiet morning, mostly. Couple of dog walks, reading the paper (albeit skipping quickly over the footie results) and such like.

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: castle fox

As compensation for the truncated morning excursion, Mali and I walked out to the marina yesterday evening. We don't normally head out that far, and we got back pretty late, but 'twas a good stroll.

I'd seen at the weekend that the right hand side of the marina had been redeveloped, but the crowds were so thick at the time it had been impossible to see what was new ('new', here is a relative term, and should be read as 'new to me'). The walkways have blue underfoot LEDs to light the way, and although last time we were up there I had to carry Mali across the lock gates, this time he was perfectly happy to pad across, leading the way.

In other news, I've swapped Castle Fox's net connection back to the old router. I'm not wholly convinced that things have improved, particularly, and the whole reason that I bought the second router was that I thought the original one was subfunctional. It all rather points to problems with the line. *sigh*

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: work

Overslept by 40 minutes today... kinda. I heard the alarm, and was sort of awake, but just lay in bed for... y'know, 5 minutes. When I checked the (super-accurate-to-1-millisecond-every-six-ice-ages-radio-synchronised-atomic) alarm clock '5 minutes later', however, it was 6.25. Gah.

Nonetheless, I still shaved, showered, walked Mali, got to work at the usual hour and all that. Still feel tired, though. Blech.

The washing machine at Castle Fox has gone on strike. I think the problem will be that the filter needs clearing out. Unfortunately, the Book of Words for the device insists that it possesses a 'self-cleaning' filter unfettered by the need for human interference (yes, my washing machine has its own Prime Directive), so this may be a job beyond my abilities (is there no beginning to my talents?). In the interim, I'll need to re-acquaint myself with the joys of the laundromat. Fortunately,

brundle lent me Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser the other day, so at least I'll be able to make a start on that...

aome was asking whether Castle Fox was back on the net. The answer is yes. And no. And all points in between. It's mostly back, I think^*, but is somewhat tempremental, and even when the connection is up, the router's reporting the line speed as 460kbps, which is just a little shy of the purported 'Up to 12Mbps' that the account's quoted at. Hull is a monopoly for ISPs, so room for manouevre is limited, but yes, I really ought to mention it to someone at KC. That and the static filled line.

* Verily: give me certainty or give me something else

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: work

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