Shivery Sunday

It looks as if winter is really setting in now.  It is so dark today we have the lights on, there is a strong wind blowing and it is very cold.  Still, we are in November so it must be expected.

I have started getting some Christmas presents together but have not got really enthusiatic about it yet.  Probably because we had a rotten summer and , once again, since September the time has just flown past.

I have been visiting our new chat room quite a bit.  Often there is nobody there but I have also had some great chats and it is nice to see those with webcams actually appearing before you, and to talk to those with microphones.

Talking of webcams, we tried to install one yesterday and had endless problems.  Either the video would not work or the sound would not work or both.  A couple of times I did get it to work perfectly.  Then I was informed there was an "update" so naturally I did that.    Then the whole thing went to pot and stopped working entirely apart from taking snapshots.

Guido (Pharmolo) kindly sent me a trouble-shooting site for the make of our camera.  There were so many complaints it was unbelieveable.  Well, I scanned through some of the answers to the problems and it was way too technical for me!

This morning my beloved took it back to the place he purchased it and spoke to one of the technos there.  Guess what, in the returns pile, there were eight other cameras just like ours that people had returned. The shop said they had nothing but complaints about this make of webcam either.  Mostly the same complaints as ours, they could not get the video to work or got video but no sound.

Anyway we have exchanged it for a different model and sometime over the next couple of days will try to set that one up and hope for better things.

It is nice to be able to go into the chat room and actually see people and at least I can use my microphone and chat to them for the time being.

I hope it will become more popular because it is nice to have it there on our own journals, talk to other journallers and be able to make new friends.

Friday night was great.  We have five administrators in the room and were able to see them on their webcams.  It seemed so strange that it was daylight there and pitch black over here.  We even got serenaded by one of them who took out his guitar and sang to us. 

Please remember that this has been set up for we journallers.  If we do not use it then we could lose it and that would be a great shame.

Apart from that all is quiet with us.  Daniel has had his appointment come through for Great Ormond Street hospital - the 26th November.  We can only hope they can get things done quickly and Becky and Dean will not have to endure too much travelling backwards and forwards to London.  It would also be nice if everything was sorted out for him by then. 

Not much else to tell you at this time. Going to turn the heating up a bit now.  Brrrrrrrr.

Oh, we have a new journaller who has recently started and I am sure she would appreciate some readers.  So, I know that a lot of you will be happy to oblige, you never let me down.

Here is the link

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