MY COMPUTER FAILURE & ink projectiles

At the end of March my computer waved goodbye - well, actually it just pi**ed-off without so much as an "it's been nice working with you". - Just sat there looking blank-screened - reflecting my dismayed image!

Hmmm, - well my mate "Little John" helped me select a new one that cost twice what I had hoped to pay and then extracted the 'hard-drive' from my departed ex long-term companion (of seven years, so I suppose that I mustn't grumble !).

 By some very technical process that only occurs in darkened rooms behind locked doors - he seems to have sucked-out most of what I had been working on - and has loaded it onto the new 12 gigabyte RAM 'acer' -  and I'm now getting to grips with its Windows 8 operating system.

 - It's all a bit too stressful for an 'old fart' who can remember dipping a nibbed pen into an inkwell mounted in the front of the desk at Linacre Road School, Willesden (London)  - Actually I also remember dipping the 'pigtail' of the fair-haired wee girl in front, into that inkwell too - and it becoming an interesting 'blue/black' shade at the end. - I don't think that she complained or told on me.

                                                           DESK INKWELL

- Can any of you remember the ballistic thrill of firing a folded paper pellet from a rubber-band tensioned between thumb & finger ? - made extra effective when freshly dipped into that same blue/black inkwell - splat - yeah! - That's where it all started!

 - I was actually a nice little boy. My teacher used to send me out of class, with the money once a week - to get his freshly laundered white shirt collars (celluloid) from the laundry shop, in a paper bag. - Remember separate shirt collars - I guess that was about 1953?

Next computer task is to try reload all the stuff that I've lost - such as the program that I used to adjust my photos - the one I can't remember what it was or where it came from - but it worked for me!

Hmmm, So far in three months and eighty plus posts on this 'blog' I've earned $4.83 from the adverts - (thank you whoever clicked on them) - and have spent NZ$1,400 odd and some hours researching and writing !! - But I am enjoying it all so that's what counts eh. - I'll keep on keeping-on as long as I can find anything worth writing.

 HooRoo (that's a 'West Coast' kiwi salute)

Marty K