The Computer + Jokes

One of those days.  Often when you make plans or try to, something throws a spanner in the works.  That is what is has been like.  Not that anything bad has happened, no it has been positive but has just taken a lot of time.

First I had a couple of sales on Amazon, totally unexpectedly so I had to find the books, pack them up, send confirming emails etc.  Then the phone kept ringing.

Next thing a knock at the door.  It is my new CD writer.  The one on my computer packed up last week and I was getting seriously worried because I have a lot of stuff on here including photos and video and I had no way of backing it up.  When I phoned the service deparment last week and had a long conversation with the chappie there, we came to the conclusion that was what the problem was and I was told a new one would be sent out to me today and I would receive it on Friday or Saturday.  Well, speedy service from them  because it arrived.    The company are not doing home visits now if they consider it is something the customer can fix for themselves.  So him indoors fits it and I sat down to check it would work.  Alas, more problems than ever.  It took 30 minutes to try and save four photos. Luckily I only gave it four to try - and then told me that there was an "error in writing to the disc".   "Oh bother, oh dear" said I - not!

Back onto the service department.  Well, they had sent instructions and ......whoopee a brand new screwdriver to do the job (as if we are not knee -deep in them already) but they had omitted to point out that this drive needed connecting a slightly different way.  Told me to get him indoors to take it out and then put it in again using a different method.   He did and yes, at last I can back things up from my computer and save things to disc. Of course, I had to try it all out afterwards saving different types of items just to be sure.

Then I had to phone a collection company to come and pick up the faulty part tomorrow.  Spent ten minutes trying to point out to some idiot that I was sending the item back and it was not coming here.  Grrrrrrr!

This has taken most of the day and I am so behind.  Now it is time to start thinking about getting the evening meal and I have a splitting headache and do not feel like it.  At least something positive has come from the day.

So, I hope to catch up on all your journals tomorrow.  Meal to get then  I want to back quite a few things up on the computer just in case something else goes wrong with it.

I will leave you with a couple of jokes,  I do hope you enjoy them and they make you laugh as they did me. I am never quite sure whether to post jokes or not as people's tastes are so different and I would not want to offend anyone.

A husband found himself in big trouble, when he forgot his
wedding anniversary. His wife told him, "Tomorrow there had better be something very nice for me in the driveway that goes from zero to two-hundred in five seconds flat."

 

The next morning, the wife  found a small package in the driveway. She opened it and found brand new bathroom scales.

 

Visiting hours for the husband at the hospital are limited due to the extend of his injuries.

 

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It's the Spring of 1957  and Bobby goes to pick up his date. He's a pretty hip guy with his own car. When he goes to the front door, the girl's father answers and invites him in.

"Carrie's not ready yet, so why don't you have a seat?" he asks.

"That's cool," says Bobby.

Carrie's father asks Bobby what they're planning to do. Bobby replies politely  that they will probably just go to the soda shop or a movie. Carrie's father responds, "Why don't you two go out and screw? I hear all the kids are doing it."

Naturally, this comes as a quite a surprise to Bobby, so he asks Carrie's Dad to repeat it. "Yeah," says Carries father, "Carrie really likes to screw,she'll screw all night if we let her!"

Well, this just made Bobby's eyes light up, and  so he immediately revised his plans for the evening. A few minutes later, Carrie comes downstairs inher little poodle skirt and announces that she's ready to go. Almost breathless with anticipation, Bobby escorts his date out the front door.

About 20 minutes later, a thoroughly dishevelled Carrie rushes back into the house, slams the door behind her, and screams at her father:

 

"DAMMIT, DADDY! THE TWIST!!  THE DANCE IS  CALLED THE TWIST!!!"

 

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Until the next time...........