I've been having them. Down days. Days when everything I touch turns to waste matter, not one single thing works the way it should, and piles of little things add up to an unassailable mountain range of huge proportions that defeat me with their mere presence.

Every day has been starting the same, with a frustrating battle I lose between me and the cyber-power that rules these blogs. Slow loading leads to not being able to upload photos at all, to having nothing work, to having me screaming, to tearing my hair out, to wanting to never blog again.

An electrical storm on Sunday made things ever so much worse by knocking out power to everything for hours, then having lingering effects on my ability to email ... which just happens to be the only way I can post blogs with the rest of the mess going on ... that slushed over onto my browsing capabilities and resulted in me having to go to town and complain in person to the pinheads who otherwise just lie and tell me they're 'working on it'.

How do I know they're lying? Well, I get a hint when the next person I speak to knows nothing about said 'work', as doesn't the next and the next and the next. Why? Because the person that told me about said 'work' buggered off three minutes after talking to me and hasn't spoken to anyone else in the organization since. Oh! And the hotline number he told me to call for updates? That phone's been switched off.

My dishwasher is still broken, as is my washing machine and my oven. None are likely to ever get fixed because we have no repair people in the country, and even if we did, there would be no spare parts or no one would show up for work or whoever did would lie about working on it.

Icing on the cake? I'm still coughing my lungs up, and six weeks of regular exercise and very, very little food ... all of it a gourmet's delight, if that gourmet happens to be a rabbit ... has me weighing more than I've ever weighed in my life, according to the scale at the doctor's office this morning.

What is THAT all about?

I need a decent internet connection. I need people to stop lying to me. I need a washing machine and oven. (The dishwasher I can live without.) I need a couple of aspirin, because my head is throbbing.

I need a vacation.