Friday, 16th May, 2025

Had an email yesterday saying ISP was going to do maintenance. Last time this happened we didn’t have internet for three days whilst I tried to get our case escalated, for them to fix it in one second. Surprise surprise, we wake up to the same thing this morning. So now I’ll have to go through the same song and dance again. I’m hoping I can point them to my last case and get them to escalate quicker. Still will have to do the “turn it off and on” etc. first though.

I was out walking on Wednesday and on my way back to the car I saw a spot by an old lady hill walker/radio operator. She only does VHF, which id struggled with in the day. However I didn’t take my radio out my bag because (a) I was late getting back to the car and wanted to press on and (b) I had no idea where her hill was and assumed it was miles away. Turns out she didn’t get any contacts on the hill, and maybe I could’ve been one. I feel bad I didn’t take 30 seconds to get the radio out and listen whilst walking.

I’m giving the Atari 1040STE to a friend at work for his son who’s very much into retro computing. I’ve done nothing with it for the last 9 months and it’s just clutter. It’s better as nostalgia in my mind than actually using. The boy has recently installed all versions of windows from 3.11 up in virtual machines as he’s interested in old OSs. Plus the hackerspace has about 5 Ataris should I suddenly have the need for one.