It's Dead Jim

Greetings,

Sorry for the lack of bloggage this week folks, Grumpys computer in a fine display of irony decided to change it's status to what most IT engineers would call " Kaput". Yes it died in spectacular fashion, scrambling the display on the screen before steadfastly refusing to turn on.

And of course irony was certainly not done with us as due to some network problems we had a few weeks ago, our ISP had 'secured' our wireless network. A little too well as it turns out as we couldn't even use a laptop to connect to the internet.

Of course if the computer had decided to die last week we might not have had these problems with Engineseer around to help but of course that's why they call it irony. It wasn't going to crash when we had a skilled IT Engineer here now was it?

So we now have a bright new shiny computer with Windows seven, which probably means I'll be spending the next few weeks answering questions from grumpy every few minutes. I'll also be spending the next couple of days retirieving all of the files that Grumpy wants from our backups. At most we've lost a couple of weeks of files if that. See al that hassle of doing backups is worth while.

We've had a lot of snow this week and most of the country seems to have ground to a halt. Prompting a whole lot of comments from Grumpy every time news reports come on about the weather that " We never used to have these problems when I was young!". Admitally it is starting to become a bit of a joke especially with the grit supplies for the road, most councils are now running out and will be rationing supplies but most fear that they will run out before new supplies get to them! So driving this week might well turn out to be a interesting challenge.

They haven't gritted any of the roads round my house at all, so with so many cars traveling back and forth the roads are starting to become pretty much pure ice! I am keeping my journeys to a absolute minimum right now as you can imagine, cause I don't like the ice.

Anyway,

Later folks.