Hmmm, these past few days have been … let us say … interesting.

Last week, I had to reset my Palm Vx, and then entered a date one day behind – causing all my alarms to go off one day late. Normally this does not matter, since I have daily alarms for TV shows such as Voyager, but this goof produced some interesting side-effects.

One was that I missed friend Swati Sani’s birthday on Saturday – my alarm went off on Sunday. I survived the experience, but she does have a vicious swing to that “you forgot my birthday!” baseball bat she wields

The other side-effect was that my Friday StarTrek:Voyager went off on Saturday. Like a lemming, I turned on the TV and settled in to watch, not realising that there is no ST:VOY on weekends!

You think that’s strange? Well, then what do you call this – there was ST:VOY on Saturday, and on Sunday! Hallmark Channel just went to 7 days a week StarTrek! Yay!

Of course, this created a massive scheduling problem for me – Sundays, there is X-Files and ST:TNG on Star World at 6:30 and 7:30pm, with re-runs at 10 and 11pm. With ST:VOY now showing at 7 and 11pm on Sunday as well, I am in trouble!

Solved the problem by watching 7pm ST:VOY, 10 and 11pm X-Files and ST:TNG, and catching the 11pm episode of ST:VOY on the rerun on Monday at 7pm.

BTW – last night’s ST:VOY episode was a great one (Someone to Watch Over Me) – lots of 7of9!

Still battling with Yahoo – at least we now have their attention. I can’t believe that people can be so stubborn about admitting that they have a problem!

Got some worrying news from Germany – I hope I don’t have to make an emergency trip. Checked my passport, and of course my visa just expired on Feb 28th. Life sux!

The German Counsulate in Chennai simply cannot understand that the reason for my asking for an extended validity visa is not because I intend to seek political asylum, but because I have a genuine reason for wanting to be able to go there when required – I am half German with an entire German family there!

Dammit – even the USA gives 10 year visas to people travelling as tourists, but the German authorities refuse to give me a visa that is valid for longer than 6 months!