Been offline for over two weeks. I agreed to house sit for a friend for 15 days. Could not get a good signal for my computer for the first couple of days, then it died entirely, so could not get online at all. Then when I got home I found my time had run out (I buy access by the month) and they had changed the system, so it took me several days to get them to take my money, as they would not put me back on the system until I "clicked a confirm link" in an email, and until they put me on the system I could not go online to click on the link!
Yesterday I at last got everything sorted, and have spent yesterday and today sorting out the problems that piled up while I was offline. I am now, at last, doing the less urgent things - like posting here.