Bloke interrupted

Been busy but:

• my Surface Pro died. It was only 11 months old. I went to the shop from where I bought it and they told me that if they sent it back to Microsoft it could take six weeks to replace. When they realised there were no armed police nearby they then calmed me down by telling me that I could also use a special Microsoft service to expedite this. As a result no one died and the shop wasn't horribly destroyed. Microsoft were awesome and a few days I had delivered by courier a brand spanking new Surface. I did, however, have to configure it for my needs.
• On the day of the Venture Wiesn in Munich (an event I had been advised to attend by a VC) I developed my third ever migraine. I took a pill my doctor had prescribed for this eventuality. Instead of feeling "foggy" I now felt "woozy" but not better. I checked the details of the medicine on line and worked out from its half-life that I would be ok to have a beer later on that evening. I ended up having four beers at the Venture Wiesn and felt much better. Made good contacts there.
• A few evenings ago my modem suddenly died. In the morning I had to go to a local DT shop, buy a new one straight away and then set it up. Turns out the modem included a firewall with an email service whitelist which is, apparently, updated by DT on a regular basis. But my email service provider is in the US and so wasn't on the whitelist. After a bit of investigation I manually added it.
• And yesterday I went into town with the alertness of a zombie. I had forgotten to renew my transit ticket and, for the first time ever, was unlucky enough to suddenly be ticket inspected. Not a cheap experience.

Better news:

• A week or just over ago I had a Skype call with an interim manager who knows some angels. Although what we are doing isn't in their space, he reckoned we had a good idea. He also added that we need some traction, at least a couple of customers, even for angels.
• We have a young IT guy volunteering to help us in his spare time. It will take a little while to bring him up to speed on how we do things but once he understands this he will probably be more productive than me - even though he had limited time due to work reasons.
• We're pursuing a third co-founder who has been a bit unlucky recently but hopefully will be able to join us.