Hello…we have Internet back on after a week off-line  and nothing has changed.  Gnome said, “Nobody bothers writing emails anyway.”  And sure enough, I’ve checked the mail and there were 42 junk emails.  Anyway, it all started with a bad storm last Wednesday evening which resulted in our transformer blowing out.  By the time electricity was restored, it was Friday so it was near enough to the  weekend…and we all know nothing happens at the weekend here, so we called to get our Internet fixed on Monday.

Even before all of that happened, we have been experiencing computer woes.  The power cable for our computer crapped out (after a thunderstorm and a brief power-cut) and then the computer shut down before we even knew what had happened.  We did not get a chance to back up the hard-drive so I’ll need some time to retrieve my passwords for administrative websites.  Oh, and the printer doesn’t seen to recognise this temporary computer so we can’t print our business labels out.  Hmmm…somebody once told me that when you get electrical problems, it’s because Mercury is in retrograde (something like that).  Let’s all hope (cross our fingers) that Mercury is moving forward again!!