Thursday, June 18, 2009
Up and down
I've been feeling quite up and down recently.
Take Tuesday. I came in from work feeling pretty lousy and fell asleep almost immediately. Then yesterday I felt fine - sufficiently fine that I got quite a lot done. But this morning I woke up feeling rotten again and haven't really had any oomph today either. I've just done my 15-minute workout, which generally leaves me feeling rather good - and indeed I felt better for a couple of minutes after completing it - but now I'm back to feeling ill again.
Between feeling grotty and having to deal with the lack of Internet I ended up staying at home today (it'll make up for work eating last Saturday). I phoned the ISP just after 8 and got the answerphone. Just after 9 I got hold of a human being whose response when I told him that the DSL was out was "you live in Eyjafjarðsveit, right?". It turns out that there was some wind and a resulting problem with the electricity supply which messed up all of the DSL links in the valley. He took my number and said that someone (R, the American chap) would call me back later to deal with it. I wasn't too unhappy at this as I wasn't feeling good anyway.
Instead, then, I decided to do something fairly sedentary while I waited and got started on the illumination part of the backlog scrolls (I finished the calligraphy last night). I must remember to start the next batch with words other than 'let', as I've had a lot of the letter 'L' to illuminate.
There was no phone call, but at about noon the DSL suddenly came back up. Hurrah! I was connected to the world once more!. This was particularly well-timed as I needed to check some illumination stuff. :) I'd completed the first group of relatively simple versals and had come up against the rather more complex border I had planned for the second group. I've not done a border like this before so I needed to find a couple of examples just to be sure that I wasn't doing something horribly wrong. It's looking pretty good so far, and with a bit of luck I might finish it tomorrow.
I have to go into town and into the office tomorrow, no matter how I feel. I might not manage a full day though unless I feel a lot better than I do right now. Time for plenty of liquids and bed, I think.
Take Tuesday. I came in from work feeling pretty lousy and fell asleep almost immediately. Then yesterday I felt fine - sufficiently fine that I got quite a lot done. But this morning I woke up feeling rotten again and haven't really had any oomph today either. I've just done my 15-minute workout, which generally leaves me feeling rather good - and indeed I felt better for a couple of minutes after completing it - but now I'm back to feeling ill again.
Between feeling grotty and having to deal with the lack of Internet I ended up staying at home today (it'll make up for work eating last Saturday). I phoned the ISP just after 8 and got the answerphone. Just after 9 I got hold of a human being whose response when I told him that the DSL was out was "you live in Eyjafjarðsveit, right?". It turns out that there was some wind and a resulting problem with the electricity supply which messed up all of the DSL links in the valley. He took my number and said that someone (R, the American chap) would call me back later to deal with it. I wasn't too unhappy at this as I wasn't feeling good anyway.
Instead, then, I decided to do something fairly sedentary while I waited and got started on the illumination part of the backlog scrolls (I finished the calligraphy last night). I must remember to start the next batch with words other than 'let', as I've had a lot of the letter 'L' to illuminate.
There was no phone call, but at about noon the DSL suddenly came back up. Hurrah! I was connected to the world once more!. This was particularly well-timed as I needed to check some illumination stuff. :) I'd completed the first group of relatively simple versals and had come up against the rather more complex border I had planned for the second group. I've not done a border like this before so I needed to find a couple of examples just to be sure that I wasn't doing something horribly wrong. It's looking pretty good so far, and with a bit of luck I might finish it tomorrow.
I have to go into town and into the office tomorrow, no matter how I feel. I might not manage a full day though unless I feel a lot better than I do right now. Time for plenty of liquids and bed, I think.