I awoke, early, and rested my tired eyes further listening to liars, the devious and the self seeking on the wireless telling us how wonderful the world is under their government, opinions, ideas and, er, art! As a bleary gray blue light crept slowly into the clouds outside I trudged unwillingly through to the East Wing for a sumptuous healthy breakfast of bacon rolls. As the bacon
After breakfast I returned to the laptop wishing I had swallowed some of those tablets women get on TV programmes. I prayed, then began the brute once again. Problems on a PC are bad enough, but not getting a connection was like being held incognito, I must however admit I have no idea where incognito actually lies, possibly Italy I imagine!
According to the Laptop Windows the modem was not connecting. After some considerable time of fiddling with things I fell back on the old remedy of turning it off and on like windows had told me to. Still no help. Gulp! I turned it off and waited longer, and once again (Hooray) it sprang, slowly, to life and allowed me my life back. It was at this point I decided I must get that old PC fixed! So now the laptop has served me through the day I make plans for rushing into town tomorrow and visiting PC World. I will find what I need there and get to work immediately, sort off. This is indeed an emergency and nothing, absolutely nothing, will hold me back!
Late this afternoon an emergency call from the museum means I must go in at ten a.m. tomorrow morning, just when I should be on my bus. Volunteers, you canny trust them! At least I can now consider what I am doing on the broken PC properly rather than rush off and buy what looks the right thing.
My life is so exciting, don't you think.....?
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I'm in despair when anything happens to my computer. It's as if I've lost not only my right hand and arm, but my left arm and hand as well.
The night before last my mouse died on me....I tried to convince, bribe, blackmail and cajole my two furry rascals into running outside to catch a mouse for me, but they just laughed and returned their attention to the Aus Open Tennis.
I kick-started my laptop in the interim. The next morning I sped at great haste to the store to purchase a new mouse. Before attaching it to my PC, I waved it in front of Remy and Shama...both of whom didn't raise a whisker!
The internet was so slow last night that even listening to the radio was interrupted by notices saying that the bandwidth was insufficient...so at 6.30 pm we called the company running the show...the wonderfully (to my eyes) named ICE.
Not only did we get an answer...we got it in English and were switched through to a better line....
I nearly dropped from shock after the years with France Telecom.
We had to have a better speed for Skype as this morning I was to take my mother's grocery order and send it over to Tesco to deliver to her...
What did we do 20 years ago?
I never watch breakfast TV. It puts me in a lousy mood for the rest of the day. But BBC Radio 4 Today puts me in a mood of righteous indignation which is subtly different from a lousy mood and one that I much prefer.
Lee, When the laptop is dead I have to speak to people, and that is not good!
Fly, That is indeed service! However internet International Tesco deliveries!!! Super!!
Mike, We used slates and drew on cave walls.
Jenny, I understand you here!
Adullamite...I empthasise completely. That's the horror of it all!!
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