Inpomnet

My interweb connection has mostly been 0b/S since yesterday morning. Problem started coincident with a rainstorm. Almost certainly down to the antenna here being a bit out of line.

My service provider is generally pretty good, which is fortunate because right now they're the only real option for me here. Friendly & helpful, but clearly short of field engineers - we are up in the hills. (I've been tempted to ping them about work even though I don't have transport - I get the feeling they might be desperate enough to find a workaround).

#:aside I was a total bookworm from an early age (until I moved to this harder drug when the Web came along). Odd really, I'm not sure how it started. Even though both my parents were very hot on education, neither were big readers, not a bookish family. But incredibly lucky in how it opened the world to me. Anyhow, my English language mechanical skills got to be really good, I had automatic correct usage (I'm crap at other languages, btw). But nowadays my spelling is... hesitant. The exposure to en-US online and a fair bit of Italian has scrambled it, I have to double check all the time. Ditto my grammar. Both understandable, I don't feel bad. But my bloody punctuation is broken too! Example just now ^^^, putting a whole sentence in braces. Where, by the Frenchman's f'ing' fin does the full stop/period go..?

Ok, what I have been working on (always) is heavily dependent on the Web. But I still have vast numbers of things to do which don't need it. No problem. Hah!

I've been fortunate in only having experienced sexual impotence a couple of times in my life, despite having a taste for the booze. Found it slightly embarrassing, very frustrating (tragic on a one-night stand). But that pales in comparison with having to wait, possibly a day or two, for an engineer to get here.

Claudio and I are not long back from walk #1, I've just been getting my breath back. I noticed coming in that my antenna is securely mounted by means of cable ties to a drainpipe. So I'm now going to get out the ladders and give it a wiggle. Even if I had a clue about what freqs it operates on it's unlikely I've a suitable meter. But I do have ping (on termux) on my phone.