GRRR. Lost the internet at home again. These cunts are irritating me. First the internet & associated VoIP phone line dies. Next the internet minus the phone component was restored. Now the whole thing's fallen over again.

Six minutes later: all is fine, phone line & Fraudband connection OK.

Whilst the home phone is currently dead due to a National Broadband Network up-fuck, at least I know if anyone calls the home phone number. Voicemail has been set to send me an SMS on the iPhone if a call comes in or a voice message is left.

While the internet has been restored following the nationwide NBN outage, I have no working home phone number, it's a VoIP setup & it just doesn't work.

Hope so.

It's been a hard day for me, my arthritic knee is giving great pain & restricted movement of the joint isn't helping. Initially, my cat took out the internet this morning by jumping down from the office chair and landing on the power switch for the powerboard the broadband router plugs in to.
I couldn't get the internet running because the router wasn't responding to reboots in a favourable manner. Turns out there was a nationwide broadband network outage that started about an hour after the unrelated cat issue.
Compensating for awkward walking with a crook knee has put stress on my back, which is manifesting itself as sciatica & a bad headache.
I'm not enjoying life at present.

A nice mid-afternoon snack is some water crackers & a soft havarti-style cheese flavoured, most unusually, with cumin seeds. Very smooth, very subtle.

Sawgy dawgy

I have it on good authority that one Lucas product didn't suck. Trouble is, it was a vacuum cleaner.

National Broadband Network my arse. Try Fraudband network. There's a nationwide outage, otherwise unspecified.

I had to recreate the keyboard shortcuts manually on the iPhone but this duplicated them on the iPad Mini. Deleting either the original or the duplicate on the iPad in the hope of decluttering the list led to them both disappearing from the iPad.
I had to enter them manually again, this time by entering them in Notes on the Mac & using Notes on the iPad to copy & paste into the text replacements area.