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Hello world! You still exist. That's nice. I have been having Adventures. On Thursday night there was the mother of all electrical storms. Seriously, everything blew up. A telegraph pole just down the road scored a direct hit, and got lit up like a Christmas tree, which blew out everybody's internet. I seem to have done better than some people; I think the neighbours may have absorbed the worst of it (neighbours have purpose! Who knew?!), but my router got toasted. Fortunately the computer didn't, but the phone line got more or less fried, so even with a new router, there was a bit of a wait to get things up and running again. And there's me thinking all these years that I'm alright Jack, just because I unplug everything from the mains during storms. From now on I shall be unplugging the telephone too. Jeepers.

Still, it was an awesome storm. Everything blew up. Everything. Well okay, not everything, but still. It was entertaining enough that I've more or less forgiven it for cutting me off for a week. Anyway, I hope everybody is well, and I shall endeavour to catch up with anything that seems important/interesting/suitably ridiculous. So that's most of you covered. I've spent the last week reading things the low-tech way, finishing a couple of stories that I think I started for Snowflake Challenge about three years ago, and watching absurd amounts of Rentaghost, so be warned that I may end up analysing the latter in depth. Yes, I know, but somebody ought to do it.

Off to catch up here and there then. Bye.