TBSITW

Today TBSITW once again lived up to her name. She came over and sorted out all the jumble of PC cables and labelled them to make reconnecting them after they go to dearest daughter easier. Before she allowed me to delete files she checked that my tiny pink thumb drive actually held all the files from my PC - the contrast is quite amazing. She uploaded them for me using the touch pad mouse which I find rather difficult and showed me how to access them.

Then she checked that the PC was reassembled and left me to delete my personal files. This is now done.

After that, my delivery from Tesco came. Now, bear in mind that I had planned to make the Brussels sprouts and chestnut puree tomorrow. I saw that there were several choices and selected a bag of baby sprouts as they looked nice and I thought they would be easier to shred than the bigger ones as well as less bitter.

What did I find when the delivery arrived? They were not available and some numpty did not think of substituting with one of the other lots of sprouts! This is where I feel so helpless. To make matters worse, TBSITW phoned from Tesco to ask if there was anything I needed and I said no as I had a delivery coming... Ah well, hope there are some sprouts with the organic veg delivery on Tuesday, but I somehow doubt it.

Back to the drawing board.

Off-line woes

Hello bloggers, it's TBSITW again.

Elaine has a new laptop and, in the process of setting it up, appears to have lost any internet connection. I can't go to help her in situ until Friday, so don't expect to hear again on her blog till after that at least.

All I can do to help is crawl around checking connections. The software side of connecting to the internet is a grey area to me (even though I was a computer programmer in the olden days!). So meantime a plea goes to "Elder Son", if he has a moment, to let Elaine know if he has any helpful hints on the subject.

I'm Dreaming of a White February

Here I am sitting at my old (soon to be replaced, I hope) desk. The laptop sits on the keyboard pull-out part that, you just might remember, I damaged in one of my swan dives. TBSITW fixed it, but it is still somewhat wobbly. Anyway, the whole thing, including the open screen, is sitting there, and the screeen covers only the edge of my PC screen. I keep looking up and seeing the PC screen and wondering what I have done wrong that it looks black......

As well as seeing the black screen I now look over it and see, in complete contrast, white flakes falling from the sky and lying over the cars and the car park. I can see one bay where a car has been taken out for a drive and car tracks to indicate movement of vehicles in and out. However, this presents a really cold, dismal picture.

I have a strong feeling that bridge will be a no-go this afternoon, not just for my partner who lives in a small town higher than here and who would therefore have to brace worse weather, but that it would dramatically reduce the numbers as people decide to stay at home, making it much less fun.

Still, there's always my friends and the Scrabble board.

This morning has been spent happily sorting out my favourites list and reading all the blog updates I may have missed. I shall be glad when my MS Office arrives at which time I can transfer my backup pen drive files to it.

I do need to do something about getting rid of a dial up broadband as there are only two USB ports, and I like to use one for the mouse. Mind you, with a bit of effort I might just come to terms in time with the laptop's equivalent.

Well, might, but no promises.

On the Go

So, here I am with my new laptop and logged on to the Internet, albeit with a dial up connection - for the meantime...

These computers get bossier by the minute, I have a trial of so many log ins to MS office, but have bought it from the same place as I bought this (ebuyers) at about a third of the price. It is coming on Wednesday, but only because I shall be out on Tuesday.

There is a tremendous jumble of hardware, peripherals and cables lying around. I shall tidy as much as I can, because that is just what I don't want when in danger of tripping,

The Good Samaritan

This morning I got a telephone call from TBSITW offering me a lift to Church. Now it should be born in mind that she goes to Church only fro Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals, so this was a seriously good offer, made because she knows how much it means to me.

She duly arrived and drove to the car park, then offered me an arm while we walked to the Church door - this is a much longer walk than you would think and so she realises what I mean when I talk about the distance to walk.

She collected me after the service and we went to Comet to get a mouse to make the transition to laptop a bit easier.

I have now updated my important files onto my pen drive and am about to uninstall Tesco broadband from this PC and install it on my laptop.

This could be jumping into dangerous waters with the sharks gathering below, so please do no not be alarmed if I am off the Internet for a while.

Later....

After the soup and phone call, I managed, with the help of telephone support from elder son, to put the laptop together.

After that, what do you do but power it up and get going. I changed the language to English (UK) and the clock to GMT, and set the time as well.

So then I decided to switch off.

I tried Start Shut down but it would not do that it just put it into Change User. I tried it twice but still the same. I don't like to switch it off at the wall or close the lid, so it is sitting there staring at me balefully

I had also tried to set up a wifi connection but that does not work.

Okay, back to the stone age, where I belong.

After that battle, I found I could not get up to stand again.

I found on investigation that the cushion I had used to give me a little extra height to make getting up to stand easier had slipped behind me onto the floor.

I became a bit desperate, but then hit on the fact that I was wearing my lovely thick jumper and tucked it under me.

It worked!