Sick

Ok, I've been suffering for the last week or so, with the flu, I'm still coughing, but at least that's all now.

I won't go into the disgusting details, suffice to say it was a pretty bad flu I had.

It's usually my bad luck to catch one thing every winter, but it only just started getting a little nippy out a week ago, usually I make it to December/January, usually around some party I'm too ill to go to, this time I feel like it was waiting for me round the corner, as we turned into October, it attacked me.

What I don't get, is why your body is pathetically weak, except when it comes to coughing and sneezing... it's like the virus has taken control of your system and reprogrammed your brain and nasal passages for FULL power, or overload... you sneeze so hard, you blow a hole in the 5 tissues you grabbed at once, made a noise so loud and unearthly it scared every human and pet in the house. Then of course as you returning to your normal seating position, checking you still have both your eyeballs still in their socket, and there's no visible trances of any escaped part of your brain, your shoulder bones ache like you've just been in a Mr Strongman competition.

You curse your body and the virus, why? What possible reason could there be to put yourself through such a force, your nose is highly unlikely to be any clearer, so why? The only logical reason I can think is the virus forcing you to spread itself.

The sneezing has stopped, thank goodness, but I still have the cough, a dry cough, there's nothing to cough up, least it doesn't feel like there is. Yet again, my body's on autopilot, been hacked into, hijacked, forced to cough at regular points, and particularly when the room is quiet, or at a church for a Christening.

At least I wasn't the only one hacking up a lung there.

BT vs VM

Thanks to the two engineers from "our favourite telco" (saying originally from RevK), they were not able to find my cables in, and began ordering a survey and a new feed laid through the pavement.

Fortunately, that night, we discovered the entrance way's of our's and next door's house were added on afterwards, and the builder who did it, decided to plaster in the telephone cables, and ditch the box. Very insightful, anyway some exploration later, my father and myself found the missing cables, and after several phone calls and screw ups, I got at least one of my new lines installed. A full week later when my other new Broadband provider who also took a while longer than expected to install Broadband.

This lead to I'm sure a very strange occurrence on our street, or indeed any street, the meeting of the rivals.... I snapped this while they were both here, and no I didn't ask them to park that way round, with the Virgin van's "Near Miss?" in view of the camera... that... is just fate.

Our fav telco will be back this Wednesday to put the second line in... because of course they couldn't put two in, side by side, at the same time. Particularly not when the engineer spend enough time just getting a new 66 junction box, Virgin practically installed cable while he was still looking!

He won't have much to do, literally the cables are there waiting, just need the master NTE and of course the line patching through.

You maybe wondering... "why?", well firstly these are currently just BT phones lines going in, I'll be sorting out Broadband down them through another provider, as for the cable, well it's a fall back, and I intend to use it for personal use during the weekdays. I've got a specialist router, which I'm learning to handle multiple WANs/ISPs, probably more on that later.

It begins?

Right, here we go. Another Blog, I'd hate to think how many are on the internet taking up space, more than likely contributing to a gigantic waste of data, so what am I doing contributing to the madness?

Well, I figured it would therapeutic (thank god this thing has a spell check, that'll save some time) for me, somewhere for me to rant and rave, if you've found this Blog, you either know me through some other means, or you clicked a link on a search engine... good grief.. if search engines index these things (blogs) soon it will be impossible to find what we're looking for online.

So anyway, maybe you'll get a laugh, maybe your a kindred spirit, nice, just if you don't get my wavelength, then please find something better to do then argue on here, I'm not always right, but I always hate being made to feel the idiot, so move along.