Cheery's country living adventure

Cheery_Daff

Thank you ladies

I've now got someone from IT controlling my computer, going through all the settings that's I've ALREADY TRIED MYSELF trying to find one that will turn the sound off. I don't want it pinging every time I get an email, and stupidly thought IT might know how to turn it off after I'd tried everything I could think of myself 

But no, she's just going through all the same menus I did... sigh. Maybe she'll persist for longer?

Reckon I can get her to do some of my other work while she's in there??

Cheery_Daff

Woo hoo! Magic IT woman has sorted it - by rooting round in her own email to figure out how she did it herself

Finally going to make myself some tea now, and then I can get back on with the rest of the business of the day!

Greying_Pilgrim

Ha Ha!  Thank goodness karmacat  was there with a back-up cuppa.  i'd just done JW's workout - so my waitressing efforts on your thread resembled those of 'Mrs Overall'........... 

Greying X [goes off humming tune to Acorn Antiques'.........]

missymoo81

Oooh Cheery, I’m so sorry everything is so rubbish for you. Technology is such a nightmare, it’s amazing when it works but when it’s not it’s just a real face palm. 

Cups of tea fix everything so please have another on me. I’ve got cake too.
I hope your afternoon gets better. Big hugs.

StrawberrySuze

South_coast said:

I wish you'd all stop talking about dishwashers 😥 I really, really, really want one, but have to get rid of this pesky mortgage first!

I think of it as an investment......in my sanity..... 🤪

StrawberrySuze

Cheery_Daff said:
I'd happily have a mains sewage supply too Touch wood nothing much has gone wrong so far (except us having to unblock the overspill pipe ourselves with a massive length of rods, of course...) but you never know... I should get the tank pumped at some point, pretty sure you're meant to do it once a year and we've not done it at all in 3 years...

I had a septic tank at my last house, I lived there for 13 years and had it emptied about 3 times 🤣

South_coast

Ooh, I'm thrilled you managed to get the pinging noise turned off - I can't bear it, or the pop-up in the corner of the screen, or the unobtrusive envelope symbol in the corner 🙁 I will look at my emails when I choose and not constantly react like Pavlov's dogs!!!

rtandon27

***  passes Cheery a bottle of nice strong gin to fortify her cups of tea with ***

I completely sympathize Cheery - having spent 1.5 hours this morning on the phone with my IT guru walking him though everything that would not work on my laptop - not sure which of us found the experience more painful!

@Greying_Pilgrim - my English to English translator has just explained Mrs Overall to me complete with illustrated examples supplied by utoob 🤣🤣🤣

Cheery_Daff

Thank you all for my tea and sympathy xxx it was very much appreciated earlier, and has been even more appreciated now after a dreadful evening, which started badly and with tears, and then got even worse, with a phone call from a friend of Mr Cheery's to say his wife had been diagnosed with early onset dementia, and that another mutual friend had died this morning hardly anyone knew he was ill, he'd been diagnosed with cancer and they were looking at treatment options over Christmas, but it had just gone too far and he died today. Awful, just awful.

So this all puts my IT complaints into perspective  

Nothing to say really. Mr Cheery is devastated, and we are all reflecting on the shortness of life (he was just 61, and our other friend's wife is only in her late 50s we think). Hold your loved ones close tonight folks xx

StrawberrySuze

That is so sad cheery 🙁 ❤