This week is not a good week.

It's a long story, but the concise summary is the UK Filknet server will be unreachable until I get home this evening, and possibly for an hour after that. Also I cannot read my altrion.org email - if you need me, comment here, grab me on IRC/AIM/Skype or email fleetfootmike@me.com - if you need a CGI IRC client for #filkhaven or #ukmg, try http://www.us.filknet.org/cgi-bin/irc/irc.cgi

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I am not in the mood for stupid questions, so apologies in advance if 'have you thought of X' gets you snapped at. The answer is "Yes". For most sane and several stupid values of X.

To further cap a crappy week:

Our downstairs loo is blocked (as of Sunday), and the Saniflo engineer we usually use is in Majorca.

My car boot latch decided on Monday morning to stick in the 'locked' position while open, so I can't lock it.

Inanimate objects hate me this week.

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So I walk in to Anne's office to check what Anne rewired from the utility room.

No lights on Netgear switch.

Big yellow cable reel. Check.
Six way strip on wall plugged into it. Check.

Cool. Now, what did I leave plugged into the six way?

Wallwart for ADSL modem. Check.
IEC lead for firewall. Check.
IEC lead for Netgear switch PSU. Ch....

Wait a minute....

The NEW Netgear has a wallwart, not an IEC lead.

That would be that wallwart sitting on top of the firewall.
How about I plug it in?

Ooo. Blinkenlights. Network. Yay.