Rowan Tree and Red Thread

I broke a tooth. Part of one of my lower left molars cracked and has left the tooth pulp exposed. There's no pain (so far) but it's left a sharp edge and a visit to the dentist on Monday will be required. On top of that I never found the missing piece so I think I've swallowed part of my own tooth. I hope it doesn't bite me in the arse later.

A couple of days ago I was awash with glee because of this.

Now the package tracker for my copy of Battlelore reads

Held in warehouse, return to sender(Information of Delivery): Cork / IE, 2006-11-30 07:46

"Return to sender"? Woe, for have I rejoiced too soon and the Universe rewards me thus. All is sorrow.

My lovely daughter and my darling wife are both ill at the moment, struggling to overthrow the advances made by some uninvited viral guests. This has meant that my daughter is sleeping poorly, and last night was like a flashback to pre-toddler days of broken sleep and long hours spent sitting by her cot. I was up for a couple of hours in the middle of the night holding her hand, fetching her drinks and administering infant paracetamol.

When she finally went to sleep, my wife was breathing heavily because of her blocked up nose and I knew I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep beside her. I went and slept in the spare room, after a few minutes wrestling with the duvet and its cover in semi-darkness.

This morning I am tired.

We also have a return of our problem with access to Livejournal. I can log in from work to either of the two accounts we use, but we have no http or ping access to www.livejournal.com from home. Rebooting the DSL router to get a new IP address doesn't seem to help this time either, so I'm increasingly confused and pissed off. The guy at our ISP says he can ping and http access LJ fine, so it's not the whole IP range or domain that's being blocked. Livejournal haven't responded to my support request and I have no idea why we should be suffering this. It's infuriating.