Meanwhile, on reality A

Various things have been keeping me from blogging lately. A quick recap:

1) Got back together with JH after a fair bit of drama and just-being-friends. Saw her off at the airport, a first. Her parents make me v. uncomfortable.

2) Went on my first (mini-)exercise as a signaller and learned never to listen to one's comms spec when he says it's okay for a buried road crossing to have a little bit of the line poking out, because he's not the one who'll be up in the middle of the night frantically searching for the field telephone and finding it in the bushes six metres from where it was left, because a 5-tonner snagged the line, snapping it off the field telephone and leaving it stretched out along the side of the road.

Also learned not to carry too many spare batteries in your manpack, because it will kill you.

3) Saw my internet connection go down for three days then, seemingly by magic, go up again.

4) Fell ill. Conjunctivitis on Tuesday seguing into fever today—troublesome because I'm leaving for Thailand tomorrow night for an exercise. It'll be a drugged-up, miserable me who gets off the plane on Sunday.

See you in two weeks' time.