Forced Absence

-  Forced Absence  -

Anyone noticed my absence from blogging now for over a month, yeah!!!!  I’ll bet you haven’t although I’ve had a few e-mails express some little concern over the reason why, questions like, health wise, my situation, gone mental, gone over the wall for a stretch at Her Majesties Pleasure - [I should be so lucky, room and board, all the modern conveniences and three meals a day] , fed up with it all, being upset having received some really disturbing news, well !!!!!! [exclamation] none of the above, some of them might have  had a little bearing on the reason why but since my declared persona  of going with the flow more and not being so aggressive to the ‘authorities’ most events now go over my head with me saying ‘let it go’.

Right then - Are you sitting on the edge of the chair waiting with baited breath ready for the explanation for the reason, [once again] yeah !!!!.   well !!!, would you believe my lovely, super duper, great, my fantastic lightning fast Apple iMac computer decided to go pear shape, not so the electronic side but the mechanics of the optical drive, just wouldn’t eject the disk I’d put in  although it was trying to eject every fifteen seconds all the time the computer was switched on - got the idea?   My first thoughts were to get the Birmingham screwdriver and chisel out but decided against that, nothing for it but contact the local Apple Store [three miles away] and ‘Book It In’,  no trouble in arranging an appointment for the Genius Bar to sus out the problem my concern was how to get the computer there, I tried the Bus but the driver was adamant it was to big to get on his bus even when after I pointed out it wasn’t any bigger then some of the pushchair buggies the young mums used, answer, no.

  

Ordered up a taxi - no problem straight up to the mail trolled the boxed up computer to the store and setting it up on the counter/bar and telling the technician a disk was stuck in the drive and wouldn’t come out, ‘he‘ look at and after ten minutes or so said you’ve got a disk stuck in the drive - I bit my lip and remembered go with the flow, I asked for a new drive to be fitted told it would five days for them to effect the repair and replace the drive.   OK on that no problem.   Five days came and went I waited another two days then phoned, response ‘Aha!!! we’ve replaced your new drive but unfortunately in doing so we broke a component‘  [My thoughts un repeatable] ‘OK then how much longer to repair it’ was told another five days or a week.   They phoned to say my computer had been repaired and I could collect it anytime, my lovely daughter number 2 was available and with her very tiny car picked it up with it just managed to stored away on the back seat.

Set the computer up, yep everything OK except a few of the important programs were missing, had to find the original disks and reinstall them and then copied the files and folders details  from the external back up drives.

139-outstanding emails almost all them require answering, strict prioritizing here, so if you’re reading this and expect an e-mail reply they’re coming.

During this waiting period for my computer to be repaired I haven’t been idle but theres only so many times you can vacuum the carpets, dust, wash the windows. cloths to the launderette, degrease the oven [ugh] iron, all pots and pans wire woolled and polished, would you believe write letters [my hand writing skill is still there, just about], going out and shopping instead of using the internet, thats an eye opener just how rude and unhelpful  the serving assistants have become.

Thats just about it for now, but I have plans for a new layout for my blog  page with new articles to come, Oh yes one more thing I’m out on Wednesday to purchase a Apple Mac 17-inch laptop.

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