Friday, March 30, 2007

Ooh! My feet are killing me

Is what old ladies used to say. And d'you know, I think they were speaking the literal truth! See, if your feet hurt, it's hard to do excercise, so you can't look after your heart and lungs. And it's hard to keep your weight down so excercising gets even harder. And then you get tired sooner so it gets even harder etc etc. So look after your feet!
Take teeth now! If your teeth hurt, it's really hard to eat all that good, crunchy, healthy, fruity, nutty stuff. I expect you can guess where I'm going with this?
And then there's your back. It's the bit everything else hangs from and balances on top of. Without a good back, you can end up wondering how you're going to get the shopping (with all that good healthy, crunchy, fresh stuff) back to the bus stop or the car or wherever.

Of course it's very important to look after the other bits too...but it's much easier to do that if you can move quickly and eat comfortably and don't need to stop and lie down and take your shoes off every five minutes...
Look after your feet, your back and your teeth and it'll be much easier to look after the rest.

Umm! Right. And look after your thrice dammed computer. Doing this could save hours of stress and high blood pressure and serious anxiety. Actually I think making rescue discs and backing up a lot might be the main things. I'm just alternately backing up several months worth of photos and blogging on the laptop!

Oh and the monitor came...I can look at pictures without crouching down and peering up and they look even better than they did before. So now I'm really wondering what they look like on everyone's different monitors! Since, over the last few weeks I've seen four quite different versions.

Until I've finished backing up, I feel constrained not to put all my Lancaster pictures on the pc. it's a sort of incentive to keep backing up until the job's done. It's a bit of a pain though because everything looks so much bigger and better and brighter now, I can't wait to see what they'll look like. Almost as good as getting a new hair cut...which I really need soon. I'm beginning to look like a mad haystack in a high wind....and it's getting in my eyes and up my nose again too.

Oh and would you believe...as soon as I got the new monitor working (not without a struggle I might add...well I will add...it really was quite infuriating to find it just didn't like the usb port I'd plugged it into) the internet speeded up and the laptop connected itself again. This surely must have been a coincidence? Surely the old monitor wasn't somehow slowing down the internet and stopping the laptop from connecting?
It's all a mystery to me.

Sorry this is so disjointed and woolly...I'm wandering back an forth between laptop and PC stopping to collect wine and ciggie and lighter and sometimes typing, sometimes writing labels and sometimes getting them all the wrong way round. This has got to be good for making the brain younger? Speaking of which, I suppose we all ought to be looking after our brains...if you can't think, there isn't much point in being able to trot around briskly, eat sensibly and stand up straight!

It occurs to me that if I stayed up all night I could get all the backing up done.

Then I could sleep all day tomorrow? Not really.

I'd better stop drinking wine though.

And now I'm hungry...really I ought to be able to manage this sort of thing better! It's really hard to keep backing up in a sensible order and thinking of random things to say when fresh bread and soup keep floating through my mind.
Right! That's it. No pictures tonight. But I tell you, what the computer is doing is making me think a glass of wine and some pink elephants would look more normal. Than it does. (it's a new DVD writer...I don't know how it works yet)

Sleep well everyone.

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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Once more unto the breach

Long pause here to make coffee....................
But while the coffee's brewing,
I had a list written this morning; fairly short but very much to the point. It went:

Go up to attic and find old monitor
Extract monitor and convey downstairs(hooks and crooks will be needed)
Disconnect current monitor, connect old monitor
Start up computer

(lots more stuff in brackets...since this may have been the point at which a flow chart would have diverged. I like flow charts, they give an illusion of likely progressions for confusing events)

pause to finish off coffee making.............................

Ahhhh! Coffee :)
And a fag.

You may have guessed from my preramble that now my dining room/computer room is littered with monitors, leeds*, stuff off the desk, cleaning stuff (it's amazing how many spiders and how much dust there are behind the average monitor(How about that grammar? I couldn't be bothered to work it out)) and aged instruction manuals. Wires crawl out form under every cupboard and shelf and then crawl back again in an embarrassed sort of way. As well they might. no use to me!
The computer and my list have inevitably diverged. Amazingly, the old monitor is prepared to give things a go but all it could tell me was that windows (apologetically) couldn't restart normally. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this. (Oh right!!!!Like the monitor not working all of a sudden)
I've tried the whole of my repertoire of things to do when the computer says it's not working normally and reached the point where a flow chart would say "NO? go back to last known good configuration (that's turn computer off again and look at it sadly. Mutter a few choice words)
The one really good thing to come out of all this is that it now seems the laptop is prepared to connect to the wireless router. It wouldn't last night but actually some little lights on the router were different from normal and now, though I don't know why and have no confidence that this state of affairs will last, they are normal and the laptop is talking to you even though the computer is turned off! Wow or what!!!

Oh No! my coffee's finished. Must make more and pursue computer expert enquiries.

Till next time I'm able to connect.** Be bad, wicked and have fun for tomorrow your computer may die!

*O well, not Leeds of course...even in my dining room that would be excessive, and the roads in Leeds are not easily navigable, having them all here would mean I might never find the computer again; or indeed the front door!
**It may be that I am unable to connect again till the computer's fixed. Don't hold your breath....I may need you to resuscitate me as I am holding mine!

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