For the record: AAAAAARGH!

Three whole weeks without a working landline.

Three weeks of phone calls to my provider, engineers visits etc.

It's an equipment fault, it's THEIR problem, it was MEANT to be sorted last Friday.

But true to form it's Tuesday, it's still not sorted and to add to the fun and games they've managed to kill my internet too.

Can you imagine trying to promote your new novel or network without the internet?

I may as well lean out of the window and shout for all the good it's doing me.

But it's fine, it's cool. I managed to get myself to my library to use their free internet to send some messages out and let the world know that I'm not dead - yet!

The computer is slow. Jurassic slow. It uses IE which I loath. It has unsecure networking which makes me paranoid about accessing my accounts.

The guy sitting next to me is talking to himself as he uses FB - I'm not sure if he's crazy or a serial canibal or what. The keyboard I'm using feels horrible and I can SEE the germs and contamination eating into my fingertips with every press of a key. I'm not even going to mention the piece of tissue that was stuck between the keys. If I start thinking about what MAY have been on it I may be physically sick!.

The mouse (what's a MOUSE?!?) is optical, but glitchy.

All in all I'm NOT a happy bunny right now.

The only bright spots to an incredibly dreary and frustrating day are:

The writing is progressing nicely as I hammer away on the first of a series of chap books - I hesitate to use the word novella.

What IS a novella? Too big to be a short story, not enough fizz in the tank to make it to novel length. I like the idea of a chap book much better - deliberately short and part of a serialisation.

The other bright point has been some very, VERY nice Spanish quisine that I've been treating myself to all day - more tapas to come this evening - I need something to do if the bloody internet persists in staying dead.

I may just end up using my mobile internet tomorow - THAT'S gonna be SO much fun.