50+ and proud of it.

It started with us taking the daughter down to Brighton to start that fascinating part of life known as "university". The most traumatic part being the fact that the girl in room 7 decided that it was too difficult to work out that the numbers on the kitchen cupboards should match the number on her room. "C T-C" as she's now known annexed cupboard 2. Daughter - not impressed. If that's all she's got to worry about then that should be fine... Back home, the raised fishpond was not going swimmingly well. I filled it full of water to test it out and it promptly collapsed. Plan B involves ½ tonne of sand and some more wood. We can dry out the conservatory later. Sunday afternoon proved to be more fruitful . Hamilton came third in the Singapore Grand Prix - the Ferrari's scoring bugger all. And, I managed to get the last clip that holds on the skirts of the Brabus into place - that's only taken me about 3 weeks. How to change the plugs on a smart R...

We did the quick monthly trip to ensure that Mother was still OK, and on the way back down the M1 I was overtaking a slower-moving vehicle (who was doing about 75...) and I was suddenly aware that my rear-view mirror had gone black. Now, bear in mind that I'm still alongside said SMV and I'm doing about 85 - this Range Rover thingy is approximately 10 feet up my chuff. Fair enough, I complete the manoeuvre, move over and he goes whacking past. I noted the plate - "B4 INS", Mr Bains, no doubt. My wife calmly remarked "He could do with an R in that" There's already two in the driving seat...

After 12 careful years of looking after my work PC, I left it turned on this Monday gone because one of my work colleagues needed to use it on Tuesday (it takes too long to boot - but that's another moan). I came in today to find it in a permanent state of reboot because some t*** in Finland decided to remotely load on some new crap that required a re-boot. No one spotted the "please reboot" question. That crap was F-Secure. The "waiting reboot" (we think) left the PC unprotected and somehow the MSBlast virus got on it - probably not, but we've no other explanation. Anyhow, none of the normal fixes worked so we decided to use an XP install disc to "repair" Windows. Yeah right. Setup failed halfway through with a SVCHOST crash and that was that. No way out. After 7 hours of trying to fix using the keenest minds in Britain we've had to re-install a clean O/S. So that's Thursday and Friday knackered then. I hate Microsoft. I hate the Finns ev...

My son's car alarm has developed a fault and goes off every so often. Last night was no exception. Guess who moaned at me? Yup, the Budgie Woman. Now, I didn't engineer it that way, honestly. But let's just say I'm not going to provide any help what-so-ever to help solve the fault... :-)