Preparedness for when

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BB isn't it the very best feeling in the world sitting by your stove and feeling warm? I'm so glad it's up and working, may you be warm and contented forever, Lyn xxx.

Butterfly_Brain

Bless you Mrs L it definitely cheers the spirits . DD came home from work in a miserable mood today, so while she was in the bath I lit the stove, she came down to a roaring fire, a cup of gingerbread latte and pizza, she is now content and my nerves are now soothed :rotfl:

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GreyQueen wrote: »

Hey Bob, d'you keep the fire extinguiser in the bedroom because of a problem with hot wimmin?:rotfl:

It's because I'm a red hot lover.

Seriously though, it seems to me to be the most sensible place to keep it, given the two most likely places for me to be when a fire starts and gets out of hand, before being discovered, are when I'm out and when I'm asleep.

The extinguisher will be a no use in the first case, but in the second case, having it in the room with me could make all the difference.

BTW. A couple of days ago, we were discussing powdered milk, and I mentioned Cowbelle (ALDI brand) and Tesco brand.

Well, I've just priced them up, and there isn't a huge price difference.

Cowbelle (ALDI) costs £1-59 for 340g, which is around 0.47p per gram.

Tesco brand costs £1-10 for 198g, which is around 0.55p per gram.

The Tesco brand is therefore a little more expensive but, IMHO, it has a far better taste.

pineapple

Was without the PC for a while while I tried to resurrect it. I felt as if I was missing an arm. How sad! I dimly remember life before being 'connected' and the sky did not fall in. The biggest lesson was that my life was scheduled in Reminderfox and I had no paper back up. Silly pineapple. Anyhow I bit the bullet and bought a new one :eek:
Now into serious budgeting . The bad back was not being helped by using an unsuitable typing chair so went to Sue Ryder and came out with one for £2.50. Bless you Sue. So now I just need to work on Christmas for £2.50 and I'm sorted

jk0

pineapple wrote: »

Was without the PC for a while while I tried to resurrect it. I felt as if I was missing an arm. How sad! I dimly remember life before being 'connected' and the sky did not fall in. The biggest lesson was that my life was scheduled in Reminderfox and I had no paper back up. Silly pineapple. Anyhow I bit the bullet and bought a new one :eek:
Now into serious budgeting . The bad back was not being helped by using an unsuitable typing chair so went to Sue Ryder and came out with one for £2.50. Bless you Sue. So now I just need to work on Christmas for £2.50 and I'm sorted

Yeah, it baffles me that so many of my friends & family don't have paper records of my phone number. It is all stored in their phones. Until they lose or break them, that is.

Then they have to go round to their mum, ask for my mum's number, and ring her for my number!

GreyQueen

jk0 wrote: »

Yeah, it baffles me that so many of my friends & family don't have paper records of my phone number. It is all stored in their phones. Until they lose or break them, that is.

Then they have to go round to their mum, ask for my mum's number, and ring her for my number!

:eek: That reminds me, I must get around to updating my hardcopy address book and making sure all is current in there.

Plus getting off my rear end and buying a hard-drive to back up my hard-drive. If The Beast (best in class late 2002) dies on me I shall be well p'd off and my pal the Computer Wizard will tell me off...........

Here's hoping not to see The Blue Screen of Death any time soon.

jk0

GreyQueen wrote: »

:eek: That reminds me, I must get around to updating my hardcopy address book and making sure all is current in there.

Plus getting off my rear end and buying a hard-drive to back up my hard-drive. If The Beast (best in class late 2002) dies on me I shall be well p'd off and my pal the Computer Wizard will tell me off...........

Here's hoping not to see The Blue Screen of Death any time soon.

I know this is probably not done now we have cloud computing, but the IT technician at my old workplace used to keep a backup tape at home in case of a fire at work.

Perhaps you could keep a spare drive at work, in case of a fire at home GQ?

short_bird

Today, my PC has given up the ghost.
[STRIKE]And I can't get on to my bank account to make a payment to someone. (I bank with the ones that used to employ the Crystal Methodist) Oh, and I can't talk to a human being at the bank to sort anything. yay.[/STRIKE]

Phew, one problem solved

pineapple

I know a 'puter place which will supply and fit a new hard drive - with any recoverable data copied from the old - for 60+ squid.
My problem was I fried the motherboard with coffee :eek:
I've heard it said that our memories are not as good now that everything is online. Too easy to look it up on the 'world wide wait' (as one of the LBC presenters calls it.:D). In fact I hardly use the phone book these days.

GreyQueen

pineapple, I once saw The Blue Screen of Death on a work PC. I was using it and it hung, restarted it, then just blueness from edge to edge.....:eek:

Colleague who'd done pooters at college learned over and told me the hard drive had gone. We called the techmeisters out of their cupboard and they carried it away to be re-driven and returned a coupla days later.

Jonas GQ moved onto another machine rather nervously........:rotfl:

jk0, not really the kind of workplace to leave something like that, I don't have a desk or a locker or anything. I don't have shedloads of stuff on my PC but I have XP plus it's many fold service packs and if it went down before they stop supporting XP it'd be a beggar and if it went down afterwards, it'd be a right pest as I could reinstall from the disk but I wouldn't have the service packs plus all the other gubbins.

The Wiz is chilled about running XP without the support as he thinks it's a low probability that some hackers would be writing stuff specifically for XP or retrospectively to include XP so I could probably cruise along happily for a while. He happily used 97 well into the noughties.

I quite like my elderly PC in it's putty-coloured wonderfulness. It does the job just fine, the motherboard is in good nick plus has been pimped up with extra chips and a network card. And, who would want to steal something with no financial value whatsoever?

Heck, this CRT monitor weighs 21 kg, so you'd have to be insane to bother running off with it.............:rotfl:

short-bird, I pulled my moolah out of that bank early in 2012......they've been struggling ever since............it's all my fault.