Everything technological seems to be going wrong at the moment. My computer complains when I start it up that it can't detect the AC power adaptor. Which I've had before but it's usually gone away again. It's been doing it for a while now though and it means that it won't charge the battery. Which is a problem. A friend of mine has tested the adaptor and said it's fine which means either the BIOS needs updating, which looks complicated and scary, or there's a problem with the motherboard. I don't like the sound of either of those options, frankly.

Last night I made a phone call, then five minutes later, needed to make another one. Except that after I dialled, nothing happened. I could ring my phone but not the other way. I played about with plugs in sockets and have established that it's fine in the extension lead, but not in the splitter. So if I want to ring someone, I have to come off the internet. I'm hoping Pipex will give me a new splitter.

I'm currently running down my mobile phone credit so I can switch to Tesco, as they're cheaper (I feel so dirty for it, though). As I was having this issue with the phone, I thought maybe I should get myself the IM card now (well, last night). Except that the site was behaving so slowly it took a few minutes to load each page. And when I got to the end and wanted to submit my order, it said there was something wrong with it. I couldn't find what it was, so I thought I'd go away and try again later. Later on, it was at least faster, but only let me get as far as the address page before throwing me out. So I'm going to ring them tomorrow night and order it over the phone.

Then, I was waiting to send back Serenity to amazon DVD rental, so I could get The Sontaran Experiment. When I posted it, it was available now, now, of course, it's not, and I'm getting whatever's next on my list, which I hadn't really thought about. I was looking forward to watching it this weekend as well.

On the plus side, I did drive to Didcot on my own tonight, with only the aid of John Cleese (my satnav). Which was quite handy because it told you what the road was doing, given that you can't really see much in the dark with no markings on the road itself and a whole load of parked cars around.