Philippines Calling!!

Tonight I had to avail myself of the excellent customer services of Linksys. They are the manufacturer of my wireless router which is an essential piece of kit to ensure we all stay online in various rooms in the house.
I have no idea what happened but for some unknown reason the router stopped routing and the house ground to a halt. The customer services at Linksys are really good, to start with its a free phone number, so that's fantastic. When the call is answered you could be anywhere in the world. Tonight it was the Philippines. I have had this router since 2006 and they were still prepared to sort things out. Since my last call to them late last year they have added a refinement to their operation. Now they can fix everything remotely!!! I was so impressed they came in and fixed the machine settings and rebooted the router.
These people are clever fix my machine AND all while speaking a foreign language!!
The weather has been dire today, another fall of snow overnight, we got up for school, checked the web site and at 7am it was all systems go. So we got ready, checked the site before leaving at 8am to find it was now closed. It was just as well we didn't attempt the journey as all the roads were virtually impassable. A couple of the major roads were closed. I went into work and the snow started to turn to slush. Tonight its very cold we still have a lie of slushy snow with more forecast overnight. The novelty is starting to wear off!!!!
To cheer myself up today we have finnally booked our summer holiday to Holland, going back to the same place as last year, we failed to visit the Vondelpark despite several attempts and apparently its the place to go in Amsterdam. So this year we will try again!!!