One of those weeks...

On Sunday night, the cat introduced half a glass of red wine to the keyboard... The keyboard clearly doesn't appreciate Rioja because it stopped working to sulk. So Monday morning was spent painstakingly disassembling, cleaning and reassembling the keyboard. Keyboard construction has moved on (for the better) since the last time I did this: there is a membrane inside that caught most of the liquid before it could reach the printed circuit board four layers of printer circuit cellophane, and the keys pop out and back into place neatly.  Very easy to clean up, so it left me with the lingering satisfaction of a job well done as well as a hankering to build my own PC to replace the current one which is reaching the end of its days...

Then on Tuesday, the oven decided to alternate cremating everything with operating at a temperature that could be called tepid if I were feeling generous. As gas oven repairs are beyond my skills, there is a repairman booked for next week and until then I will have to make do with the stovetop and the grill and (pah) the microwave.

And this morning, the Internet died for a couple of hours. My service provider blamed their carrier, and there was nothing for it but to wait; amazing how much I rely on the Internet for everything these days.

On the bright side, I ordered some new towels a couple of weeks ago. When they hadn't turned up with the promised delivery window I rang to be told that the courier had no record of them and (as the line was discontinued and now out of stock) the supplier refunded my money. So of course, the towels arrived yesterday. I did make a valiant attempt to break the supplier's systems by offering to pay for them, but am still awaiting the promised phone call "when we've worked out how to do this". I suspect I shall be getting them free!

This can't be a post because there isn't a fifth thing...