50+ and proud of it.

This is gonna be a long post... and this is the first time I've had the enthusiasm to write about it. Last Wednesday week I came home to find a note on the mat - " Sorry we missed you, we've taken your Dabs parcel and you'll never see it again, signed, Home Delivery Network ". I rang the number on the card, got the automated system and rescheduled the delivery for the Friday. Now, their web-based tracking system doesn't and didn't even recognise my postcode. Now, I know someone was in all that Friday - Daughter, Daughter's boyfriend, Wife, Carpet Fitter etc. Hold that thought for a moment. Now jump back to the Saturday before when I bought my son a lovely one-owner, 7 year old Peugeot 106 for his birthday. Brand new clutch and cat for the new MOT:- I insured it with me as a named driver, waited for 2 days for the "Insurance Database" to catch up and then taxed it online. All legal - excellent. I decided not to bring it home during the week a

I've just bust a mate's PC. Now that in itself was a really stupid thing to do - and this is how I did it (very briefly...). Try and speed up disk access by loading the correct IDE driver. Doesn't work, so remove the disk in Device Manager (Don't worry, it'll find it again when you re-boot. Oh no it doesn't). Reboot and get missing " ntldr, you're fucked, ha ha ha ". Reload Windows from the install disk and repair the installation. "Please enter the Windows Product Key?" - Ah, bollocks. Now I'm really shagged 'cos the PC won't boot now either except into "Setup Windows, please enter key" mode. Ask mate, "Have you got the Windows XP Disk or COA?", No?, bollocks, again. (Briefly what happened is that the PC bust after a power fail and he sent it away. They returned a nice new PC but crucially forgot to transfer the COA onto the new PC. He later showed me the unopened license pack with no COA - so a genui