Normal Service

Maybe they didn't lie after all! 

Bad things DO come in three's!

My network cable [connecting my wireless router to the outside world] was dodgy!

(looked ever so slightly chewed)

My 'dongle' [laptop] was not sitting in the USB port securely!
(loose screw inside laptop allowed port to wobble)

BT were working on the line!

(Switching things on and off all day)

Apart from all that ... it was a good day yesterday.

Sadly, It's A Re-Post!

Once again I find myself inundated with work and too tired after hard day's work to spend any time behind the keyboard.  I will be back a.s.a.p., but in the meanwhile, here is a re-post which somehow explains just how I feel after a hard day's bottom-wiping.

Failure to Fire

I consider myself to be a blogger with a degree of style,  if not always good taste.


I also like to think of myself as being capable of some pretty slick and smooth writing that, whilst sometimes bending the rules of grammar to breaking point, delivers some worthwhile entertainment. 


It does not come easy to me however.  I have to trawl though area's of my mind that I very sensibly vacated many years ago in order to obtain some of the material that ends up as a blog article.  I dodge, as neatly as possible, the somewhat darker memories and attempt to document only the lighter side of what it is like to be me!


Others can sit themselves in front of their laptops/PCs and effortlessly fire-up their neurons in such a way as to deliver sophisticated and, in most cases, humorous anecdotes directly onto their blogs without so much as a second thought.


I,  on the other hand, have to tweak and re-tweak before I consider an article ready for posting.  Some, after a considerable 'construction' phase, never see the light of day. 


Today is another one of those days where, although there are a number of things I would like to tell the world about, my neurons failed to 'burn' and the 'construction' idea's that I had for my article, have vanished in their entirety.


The one thought that remains, but which I hadn't planned to write about is ...

• Minnesota comes from a Sioux Indian word meaning "sky-tinted water", or "water that reflects the sky."

It has nothing whatsoever to do with a very small, fizzy drink!


I knew that!

Suicidal Computer Maintenance

So I've been fixing (and I use the term very loosely) things!

My desktop PC has had it's hard drive errors fixed and (YAY!!!) data saved.

My laptop (the very beast upon which I now type) is no longer an unpredictable stop/start disaster. All I have to do wow is work out how the Hell I ended up with three (3) operating systems, instead of just one, installed on the one (and only) partition (the first is named "        ", the second "All" and the third "Windows XP SP3").

My wife's PC has been laid to eternal rest after I 'fixed' the problems (high memory usage and boot errors) it was having (what can I say? It's a talent!).

Although I'm not quite finished 'fixing' things on this beastie, I will be on and off the internet (as I have been over the last few days) doing bits and pieces as and when I can.

Of course, that is provided that I don't 'fix' this machine as well as I fixed my wife's!

If we don't meet again then you can assume my ambitious laptop repair program has gotten the better of me!

Wish me luck!

My Absence Explained

I am experiencing the most horrendous PC problems, dontchaknow!

My laptop is slow and often snubs it's nose at me and stops.

My PC is no longer reliable as it has a dodgy hard-drive. 

My wife's PC needed fixing, so I fixed it! Now it won't work at all!

I will be back, but for the moment just think of me as "On Holiday"!