Too much time on line has wiped my memory completely of what I did before I ever went on line. Maybe I read books, had a social life, dunno, it's all conjecture. Once a dynamically assigned IP address has wiped itself round your neo-cortex tighter than ivy strangling an Oak tree, then that's it you're gone. Lost.

And I've only realised that after two days of enforced cyber idleness. My ADSL connection popped a seam and fell apart on me. But baby, it's back, and I'm so happy I'm even replying to the spammers.