I think I know why the virus protection on XP didn't work......It was set to update at 3am. Of course my dad switches his PC off every night.

Nothing much to say so here is a joke.

I was doing yard work after the storm this past
weekend and my wife was about to take a shower. I
realized that I couldn't find the rake. I yelled
up to my wife, "Where is the rake?"

She couldn't hear me and she shouted back,
"What?"

I pointed to my eye, then I pointed to my
knee and made a raking motion.
My wife wasn't sure about what I meant and said,
"What?" I repeated the gestures. "EYE-KNEE-THE RAKE"
My wife nodded that she understood and signaled back.
She first pointed to her eye, next she pointed to her
left breast, then she pointed to her butt, and finally
to her crotch. Well, there is no way in
hell I could even come close to figuring out that one.
Exasperated, I went upstairs and asked her, "What the
hell was that?"

She replies,


"EYE - LEFT TIT - BEHIND - THE BUSH"

...............................Groan

Picked up my new car on Saturday.
Vauxhall Omega CDX... Very impressed. Spent a lot of time this weekend riding around in the car.

My dad appears to have some kind of maco virus or worm on his PC.
Any word document comes up in purple and the printer is churning out loads of gobbledygook when he tries to print a word document.
Also he gets error messages saying the work doc is locked.
I suggested that he take a look at AVG antivirus as this is free and it may help.

Flaming viruses....I am fed up with them.

I’me back.

Well I am back after a virus (a real one) has put me out of action for a few days.
I wish PC’s were as good at self healing as the human body.

The windows XP is taking its toll. I still can’t get the scanner working and a couple (probably more that I haven’t tried yet) of programs will not run under XP. Sim City 3000 and Cubasis.
Cubasis is dead and buried, but Sim City 3000 is supposed to run under XP.


I did my change to XP as an upgrade (in error) and not a ‘clean’ install. It all seems very happy and I have kept all my data and files intact.
Think I will stay with FAT32 on my hard drive.
I am a bit dubious about Norton Systemworks 2002. I had to reinstall it and now it says there are 178 errors in the windows registry. I am not happy about letting it loose to repair these even if it does have an undo facility……

Today I suddenly ended up with more spare time then I thought I would have.

I took the plunge and updated my old windows ME to XP. Six hours and a lot of swearing later voila!! About 95% functional. Except for the Mustek 1200UB scanner, everything else appeared to work ok.

I can't get my head around the multiple user thingy. When I change the desktop on one user it also changes on the other. I thought it wasn't supposed to do that?

well never mind, I now have another version of windows to learn.

I wonder how BW is getting on with her upgrade ?

Another memory from about the same time was the horrible woman next door.

The kids had been naughty. When I arrived she had filled the washing machine. I can remember looking at it and watching the steam. I thought she was about to do the washing. She was shouting at her children. She told her kids to undress and threatened to boil them alive! They were pleading pitifully with her “please mummy – don’t boil us to death” It was horrible and traumatic and always stuck in my mind.

She did all sorts of things.
One day when her children came home from school the pet rabbit was missing. She told them it had ran away. It was in the meat pie they were eating. True.
She was evil.

My earliest memory.

I was lying in bed just gently drifting and I tried to recall my earliest memory. I then realised that it was one of my most vivid and most distant memories.
Only recently have I realised it was my first memory.

It goes something like this.

I must have been about three or four years old.
It was a pleasantly warm summers day. An ice cream van stopped outside our house on the opposite side of the road.
I crossed over and bought my ice cream. I looked and saw a car pass the ice cream van very slowly on the other side so I assumed it was safe to cross. I started to cross and I saw the car looming up on me. I was very small – it was very big.
The car hit me relatively gently and kind of threw me onto my back. My head hit the road very hard and I must have been unconscious for a short time. The next thing I remember is I am still lying on the road and I can feel the rough stones of the tarmac on the back of my head, sort of impaled into my skin. I could feel pain on the back of my head, the strongest pain I had ever felt in my life ! I just wanted to lie there until the pain subsided. The woman that had been driving the car picked me up and carried me into the house. I can remember her saying to me “come on cry, please cry” and I was thinking I don’t want to cry because this is so painful, it was taking all my energy to bear the pain never mind doing something else as well.
She carried me into the house and I remember my mum panicking.

The woman driving the car was the local district nurse, she has seen me at the ice cream van and had slowed down to be cautious. The irony is, I had assumed that the car was travelling at normal speed and had passed, therefore it was safe to cross. Because she was driving so slow I crossed in front of the car. Remember I was only three or four years old.

My mum would never let me cross the road on my own for many years after that.

Have a nice weekend

Well that was a load of rubbish that I posted yesterday. I was completely stuck for words and didn't know what to say. Probably better to say nothing. I should remember that I am blogging for myself and not to try to please others. - I do have this insane desire to try and please other people....Even total strangers. I think its due to being brainwashed by working for a large corporate.
Enough dribble !

I am thinking of upgrading my PC at home from Windows ME to Windows XP I have read some reviews on Amazon, some are full of praise and some have horror stories.
Has anyone had any experience of this ? If so any comments would be most welcome.

As you may know I am the most indecisive person in the world.

BRITISH SHOP SIGNS --- FOR REAL !
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Spotted in a restroom of a London office building:

"TOILET OUT OF ORDER. PLEASE USE FLOOR BELOW"

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In a Laundromat in Luton:

"AUTOMATIC WASHING MACHINES: PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR
CLOTHES WHEN THE LIGHT GOES OUT"

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In a London Oxford Street department store:

"BARGAIN BASEMENT UPSTAIRS"

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In a Nottingham office building:

"WOULD THE PERSON WHO TOOK THE STEP LADDER YESTERDAY
PLEASE BRING IT BACK OR FURTHER STEPS WILL BE TAKEN"

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In a Stevanege Electronics Factory Employees Rest Area:

"AFTER TEA BREAK STAFF SHOULD EMPTY THE TEAPOT AND
STAND UPSIDE DOWN ON THE DRAINING BOARD"

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Outside a Hull secondhand shop:

"WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES,
ETC. WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL
BARGAIN?"

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Notice in an Exeter Health Food Shop window:

"CLOSED DUE TO ILLNESS"

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Spotted in a London-Area Safari Park:

"ELEPHANTS PLEASE STAY IN YOUR CAR"

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Seen during a conference:

"FOR ANYONE WHO HAS CHILDREN AND DOESN'T KNOW IT, THERE
IS A DAY CARE ON THE FIRST FLOOR"

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Notice in a Shropshire field:

"THE FARMER ALLOWS WALKERS TO CROSS THE FIELD FOR FREE,
BUT THE BULL CHARGES"

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Message on a Manchester Correspondence School leaflet:

"IF YOU CANNOT READ, THIS LEAFLET WILL TELL YOU HOW TO
GET LESSONS"

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On a Bristol Repair Shop door:

"WE CAN REPAIR ANYTHING. (PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR
- THE BELL DOESN'T WORK)"

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Warm glow.

Thanks to all for your good wishes.
Maybe I should have given a bit of advanced notice of my impending birthday.

I had been feeling a bit down over the past few weeks. Just the winter blues I think. Last weekend was good. A piss up on Saturday and a nice meal out on Sunday and best wishes from my fellow bloggers.

What more could I ask for ? Its one of those things that restores my confidence in human nature.
All day, every day on the news and media we are bombarded with stories of bombs, shootings, stabbings, robberies, etc etc.

Occasionally we get a positive story of people from all over the world rallying round to help after a disaster, or a little local story of some good deed.
The bad seems to overwhelm the good. Sometimes I see these things on the TV and press and I find them very upsetting, maybe I am too sensitive, to empathetic. I find it easy to put myself in the position of the sufferer.

I don’t think people are as bad as the media make out…..If they are, then it’s a very sad world that we live in.

I know its very sixties, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if we all loved one another.

In the cold light of day.

Is it good or bad to blog under the influence

Well looking back on Saturday night, I was at that point where I love everyone and my level of co-ordination was enough to walk and talk in a basically functional way. I.e. more forwards than backwards with a little unplanned sideways deviation.

But I have problems hitting the correct keys when I am sober, so it was a slow job typing my post. When it was completed it was a wonderful work of art. I visited other blogs and added some really witty sharp comments.

The next day when I read what I had wrote, I sort of wanted to disappear into a hole.
My blog is not too bad. I can always take it down if I wish. But to be rash in someone else’s comments can be a bit dodgey as its there for all to see. I suppose it’s a bit like being accosted in the pub or the street by a drunk.
It’s not the same as sitting at the bar talking to your mates. People can see your state and make allowances.

Thanks to Ron as you are probably right, thanks Elsie that makes me feel better, thank goodness I don’t get that pissed very often.

**embarrassed grin**

I am at that point when I cant work the mouse properly. I cant even work the keyboar d properly and I have to hang on to the desk as it it is swirling around. I ave to keep retyping wods cos I cant type properly - I am really pissed.
Had a good nigh out on the whiskey trying not to mix my drinks as that is fatal.

Well I am entitled to a good nightnout as tomorrow is my birthday I am a lille bit older than BW.

oh dear goodnight. hic.