I Just Set Up My Computer
I am writing this on Thursday 23rd of December and we are a little under 16 hours away from having internet again. The wait for internet has been quietly stressful. I have tried my best not to let it show but my nerves and temper have been showing through the past couple of days. I have been getting snappy at little in consequential things and I think it has been picked up on as both Mum and Linda said that they would help me set up Tallulah today.
I don’t mind setting up my computer but no matter how I do it I always end up with spaghetti junction in the back and it takes me weeks to sort out the mess when it comes to taking it down or altering anything with her. I know I should be more organized but I have yet to find in the 12 years I have been using a home PC a way to keep all the cables tidy. It’s an enigma that will probably elude me for the decades to come. I’ll probably work it out one wet Tuesday afternoon and then pass out with the elation of it and die of a heart attack, just as penance for being anal.
One big thing that has changed is that I now have to be wireless in my computing. Because the mean spirited bastards who lived in this house before us only had Cable telephone we had to fork out for new phone lines to be installed. The first box I got a sweet deal on the second one in the dining room they wanted 130 quid for the pleasure. So i said OK I think I’ll pass and try the wireless thing for a while. I have a cheap wireless USB dongle, but if things keep going the way they did this afternoon then I may need to get a card installed on the inside of the tower. I keep catching the dongle with my knee and I am worried about snapping the bloody thing in two.
The move in and of itself was a fuckin nightmare. We had planned to have it all done in one day and get it over and done with. But after two hours of loading a 3 tonne Luton Truck it was almost 3/4 full and we still had more than a quarter left to fill it with. So a hasty conference was had and Linda ended up staying in the old house for an extra night whilst Mum and I came down to the New house and unloaded the van and start the sorting out of the bulk of our belongings.
One thing we hadn’t banked on was having so much stuff to bring with us. I know that sounds silly but we honestly didn’t realise we had that much shit in that house. It appears that the Northants house was MUCH bigger than we imagined…. it’s either that or this new place is fucking minuscule. To be honest we should have hired a larger skip and ordered it earlier and pitched a lot more stuff than we did, it’s all well and good in hindsight as they say.
We have had two pretty good snowfalls since we have been here, and it was kinda pretty for a while until we had to go into town in the fuckin stuff. It’s almost all gone now and we aren’t forecast any more until next Monday. By which point we’ll not give a stuff because we’ll all be to stuffed to go out and be bothered by it.
Well that’s a brief boredom post done. I hope you all have a great Christmas and a wicked New Year. If I don’t write again before then… be safe and be lucky.
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