Hallelujah!

My connectivity is restored, and my equilibrium with it. It has been quite sobering, actually, to realise the extent to which I simply cannot function without access to email, Google, and the vast time-devouring monster that is other people's blogs. Well okay, I can function without the blog-reading but things are much less fun.

I have been trying a gentle information diet which involves not checking ANYTHING including mail until noon each day, so that I can spend my most productive hours actually working rather than chasing very interesting ephemera. It has been difficult -- once or twice I've found myself clock-watching as noon approaches -- but nowhere near as difficult as spending three days entirely disconnected. So let's hope this was an isolated incident -- although I am nervous: my line went squiffy precisely as my neighbour's was fixed, and now that mine is fixed hers is squiffy again. Neither of us is amused. The next lovely Telkom technician to visit will be forced to check *both* our lines before we let him close the ticket.

PS I have a huge backlog of posts to make including a long-delayed tutorial for Cristina, some button pics for Meir Cats, and a plea for a local stitch group so we can (ahem) "take this offline" -- now that I'm back in blogspace again maybe some of them will actually happen. Those with an interest, please feel free to nag me.