Chrimble Snafu

Yep, Christmas is being rubbish.

On Thursday, whilst ice skating with my work comrades in Cardiff, I fell. Badly. I put my arm out to stop myself walloping my face on the ice, and then felt something pop in my arm. Seconds later the wave of pain came, and, as happens to me when in pain, I started fainting. Fainting in an ice rink -- not a good idea. I managed to get to the side and flopped myself over the barrier, safe in the knowledge that someone would come to my aid. Sure enough, people came to my aid, paramedics and a nice policeman (who was obsessed with finding coffee) got me to the first aid station in a wheel chair, and my day out was over.

Fortunately my arm's not broken. I've done something to the tendons by the feel and sound of things -- it hurts like hell and I've got to keep a tight bandage on my arm for a while. It make things hard, especially trying to get Jack into bed, or serving food, but at least it's not a break.

On Friday, I tried to start the car and found the battery was flat again. The connector for the stereo is all wrong and supplies 12 volts continually instead of only at ignition, which wasn't an issue with the old one, but the new one seems to be a thirsty little bugger. Somehow I managed to get thebattery out, and to the house, with only one working arm - clearly I am Superman.

And to top it all off, despite having our phone line fixed (the old junction box was corroded), our broadband is 22 times slower than it used to be. It's hard getting anything done online at 122kbps...

So, Merry Christmas y'all. Hope yours is better than mine has been!