Sunrise. Now there's something I don't see every day. Unless I haven't actually got to bed by then, that is.
But we all got up in plenty of time, Kai had his burger and a glass of milk, and we set off at 7.20 to find where the bus stops . We arrived at the Talbot Hill junction to find another newbie there with his mum, dad and little sister waiting, but another mum with her daughter told us she thought the bus would stop a bit further along - so we all trotted off over the humpbacked bridge and stood waiting and chatting until the coach arrived. Kids got on OK - all looking a little nervous - and we waved as it drove off. All very 'normal' and as stress-free as we could be - looks like everyone's been emphasising the excitement of the change rather than anything else. Many thanks for all the best wishes, folks!
So, for me, a quick shop, then home, then - after a 45 minute conversation with BY technical support - a nap...
Ah yes, BlueYonder technical support. Regular/long term readers might remember the fun I have with BY technical support. I'd have thought by now they'd have a warning by my notes: "If you don't want your head bitten off, do NOT suggest this customer has spy-ware on her system." My system is cleaner than an operating theatre (though after recent uproars that might not be saying much...) My computer is my castle, complete with drawbridge, moat filled with sharks and a dragon on the roof. And that's without my incarnations as curmudgeonly old trout and grumpy rhino lurking just inside the door. Anyone or anything that
does manage to gain access is ruthlessly hunted down, hung drawn and quartered and fed to the ogres under the walls within seconds. It takes me a full minute to list the security I have in operation here when anyone asks.
Luckily the person I spoke to today asked me if I might have spyware
after we'd gone through everything else, which mitigated the offence slightly. (Hm. Perhaps they
have annotated my records!)
ANYway... I've had intermittent connectivity problems for three days now - particularly bad last night, though it cleared in time for me to update - but this morning I have no broadband at all. Actually, that's not strictly true. I can access the 'net, but it takes about 20 minutes to load a page and even then half the images are missing. Checking the signal status page, it looks like we have a downstream problem again, two of the values are too high. Not the one that the widget fixed - this is different. Heh, I can't even call the page up to get the right details at the moment.
So they're sending an engineer.
On Monday.
[growl] And in the meantime I'm on dialup. Which is costing me 1p per minute - which isn't going to break the budget, but to which I object ferociously as I've already bloody
paid for broadband in advance and I really really loathe paying for something twice. Not to mention that no-one can ring us on the landline while I'm online.
NOT happy. Support said to try ringing again to see if they've had any cancellations, which worked well last time, except that at the moment they have network problems in BS5 and BS6 (which also might have a bearing on my problem) and it takes 20-30 minutes waiting on the phone to actually speak to someone...
I am now going to take myself back to the Riddick/Vaako fic I've started. I have to get offline in half an hour anyway in case Kai needs to ring: although I've messaged his mobile and have mine on beside me, he might not get the text (last time I tried it took several hours, no idea why) and probably won't think to ring my number. He's going to be tired and poggled after his first day.
[sigh] Bloody Terran tech...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 3:43 pm
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