We apologise for the inconvenience

So yeah, this blog and all others in the mighty Wisse empire were down for much of the past couple of days, after my provider took my site offline after some fucker hammered it into a small grease spot by overloading my booklog with invalid requests that basically crashed the database. Incidently if somebody can give me a way to block access to /books/index.php?flav=rss through .htaccess I would be greatly pleased — I can’t seem to manage myself. That was just one annoyance during a cast iron bastard of a week. Work has been buay with tying up the ends of the current project in a vain effort to pretend it’s finished, I lost a filling and need to go back to the dentist for it next week, the buses consistently ran late and most importantly, the results of the last bloody test before the operation in two weeks were delayed. But fortunately when they came, they were negative, so positive.

Operation? Yes, not mentioned here before because until now it’s all been tentative and I hate making a fuzz about things that I have to take back later (and I don’t often mentioned real personal stuff here anyway). To make a long story short: S. is on dialysis and has been for almost a year now after her kidneys packed in, I’m going to donate one, and we went through the whole circus of compagtibility tests and other medical exams to make sure we could actually go through with it (we could) and were in a good enough medical condition (in my case, not too fat). Getting into shape took most of the year but we finally got a tentative green light a month ago, only to have to wait on yet more tests. This is all done now and barring major accidents between now and the 22nd, we’ll be having the op. Which means being in hospital at Christmas, which at least removes the pressure of the season…

So, ummm, yeah. How was your week?