Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

michaels wrote: »

I really fancy the sound of stuffing crumpet whilst DW sleeps elsewhere but the new German students don't arrive till this afternoon. These ones are early 20s.

Well that didn't take long....:rotfl:

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

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If they were aware/cared they'd have spotted that for themselves and thought "Crikey - my cherubs could easily get squished in there".

The trouble is, they've no car-awareness. Take me and my 16' long, 5' wide car.... I pull in and am concentrating on the gap I can get through as somebody parked where there should be no car.... then as I'm swinging through that gap I'm looking in one direction (where I intend to ultimately end up) to get a view of "who has done what there today/now" as I then start turning the nose and lining up for double reverse.

I then reverse, so the front's swinging out, then almost get round (with 10" clearance on either side) when I "nudge" the steering to line up for the next part of the double reverse, while keeping an eye on the illegally parked car and motorcycle that I could easily clip/knock over as there's only about 4" in it.... then, if I'm "out" on my judgement at that point, I might then launch forward by 3-4' to just wiggle the steering back where it needs to be as I reverse tight against a kerb.

So, my eyes and the vehicle front/back have been all over the place there. And that's in daylight/dry conditions and with people being (illegally and legally) parked where I expected them to be and where I've observed they actually are.

I also park entirely by mirrors - it can't be done by looking out of the windows as the side gaps are so tight with bulging wheel arches and bumpers of the vehicles. I am also short, so if a child should dodge behind my car mid-manoevre, then stop right there to watch me, it'll be SQUISH as I'd have not seen them from the mirrors or the windows - and at this point you'd need to be watching in three completely different directions to see everything .... it's just not possible to watch every inch from every direction. I'd need a banksman.

A child won't know that a car that's just driven in and stopped, is about to throw the car into reverse and do a double swing around as they're not up to that level of thinking/understanding.

When you park you see what's there, judge if you can achieve it, wait for any other moving people/objects/vehicles to finish what they're doing or to acknowledge you and wave you on/round .... and then you park. You're not able to then spot that in the 30 seconds it took you to wait for somebody else/etc that some small child decided that right behind your car was a good spot to stop and brush dolly's hair.

oldandhappy

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Well that didn't take long....:rotfl:

no of course it took no time at at all these youngsters or males what ever age group come to that:D have a one track mind.

Although I did have good parentage at one time hubby comes from the east end where he was dragged up so stuffing your face with five others to compete for what was on offer was normal.

On a serious note though Hubby's father worked so many hours all his life granted they always had summer holidays down to the coast of course but life was hard for them and when he died the five children shared the total sum of his estate just £500.00. That did really shock me. regards Dianne

Doozergirl

I'm so frustrated.

I was working on excel yesterday morning. Office decided to update itself. I saved my document as it wanted to restart.

It restarted and Excel seemd to have disappeared but then it reappeared as Excel 2016 (previously 2013).

I opened my document and all of my new work had disappeared. Frustrating, but it was an hours work and I put it down to the update. I saved it with a different name - just in case, but couldn't find my work. Worked all day yesterday under new name and saved it at about 17:30. I also created another document which I emailed to someone.

Opened the laptop this morning and the battery died. Autosave suggested that it had a copy of my document - last saved by user at about 17:30, so I opened it. Again, it had reverted to where I was days before. Looking for the document, it now is only showing the document at 11:40 yesterday which is before I started working on it the second time.

The weirdest thing is that the document I created has also completely disappeared, but I emailed it so I have a copy. But where the hell is it?!

Somehow it made my default app for .xlsb - Internet Explorer. I don't get it.

Have been in floods of tears this morning. A whole day wasted. I'm working 7 days to try and get to a point where I'm not behind and thought there was some light after yesterday.

No light. Misery.

Doozergirl

Okay.

This is the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me on a computer.

I knew I'd saved that document I'd sent as it had a name and I sent it. So I went into outlook as when I attach stuff, it gives me a list of recent documents I might want to attach. I found them in there.

Couldn't 'save as' so saved it. Then 'save as' to see where it was and that was in some random outlook cache. Is that where I saved it (I know it wasn't) or is that somme magic Outlook thing?

I've now saved it in the right place and emailed it to myself.

Petrified of my own laptop.

Thank god I have found it. Taken me well over an hour, but less than the 5/6 spent yesterday.

PasturesNew

... omnipresence - it's sunny so maybe a drive's in order, but I'm almost out of diesel, so maybe to the fuel station.

Edit: While I was out ....

bags... needed one as last one's shabby/embarrassing and faded. I was in a shop and randomly came out with one of these:

http://www.urbanbeach-surf.co.uk/product/608/womens-sundial-shoulder-bag-dark-blue-ubaaw30-01wh

£9.99

It's nifty. Hand straps and adjustable shoulder strap + it zips up + inside there's a phone-sized pocket and another pocket and a zipped pocket.

zagubov

Doozergirl wrote: »

Okay.

This is the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me on a computer.

I knew I'd saved that document I'd sent as it had a name and I sent it. So I went into outlook as when I attach stuff, it gives me a list of recent documents I might want to attach. I found them in there.

Couldn't 'save as' so saved it. Then 'save as' to see where it was and that was in some random outlook cache. Is that where I saved it (I know it wasn't) or is that somme magic Outlook thing?

I've now saved it in the right place and emailed it to myself.

Petrified of my own laptop.

Thank god I have found it. Taken me well over an hour, but less than the 5/6 spent yesterday.

What are the NPs backup strategies? Do you use cloud storage such as dropbox, adrive, box, MEGA, or one of the cloud aggregator services? and backup software such as TimeMachine or Carbon Copy Cloner or windows equivalent?

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

What are the NPs backup strategies?

I press the power/start button and hold my breath/pray it all starts up

silvercar

I have an external hard disk back up thingy.

and I print out loads of stuff.

I feel I am stuck in the 20th century.

Doozergirl

zagubov wrote: »

What are the NPs backup strategies? Do you use cloud storage such as dropbox, adrive, box, MEGA, or one of the cloud aggregator services? and backup software such as TimeMachine or Carbon Copy Cloner or windows equivalent?

I have some automatic thing that I pay a yearly subscription for called EZ backup or something.

I didn't even think about it. Never accessed it although there's a little elephant that uploads stuff to the interweb in the toolbar thing by the clock.

I think One Drive might be involved in screwing it up, somehow. The laptop now wants to save everything to it as default but it makes me uncomfortable. Don't know why, I think it's because I wasn't a willing participant in setting it up.