Several hours later I'm still a little puzzled.
I go to the GP's to try and finally sort my sore sinuses and, during the consultation he asks ME what should we do?
That really caught me on the hop, I tjpught he was the Doctor and I was asking him what should we do next?

Never did get to finish ( or should I say, start to finish) any of my pictures.
What I have done is try to sort out the various bags and boxes I have my books, paints and pencils in.
And, finally, I get to my Red "Tool Box".
I empty it to find the tray full of Rice Krispies??
Where, in the name of Hector, did they come from???

Arrggghhh ... am day off today and, as I'm the first one up, I thought I would start the day with a little sketching and, more likely, a little watercolour painting.
So I find my various boxes and bags to realise how much work I have left myself.
Drawings to finish using Watercolours -- 5
Drawings to finish using coloured pencils -- 20!
Opps ...

Flipping typical - you move stuff around in your "Man Bag", lay your tablet on a box while your sorting and then split the case when you catch it on the edge of the framework while you are in the process of putting it back in your bag. Oh NUTS!

You have to love Fifth Gear.
Watching Tiff and Jason having to work together ona Rally Stage against Nicky Grist and a proper rallydriver. This is going to be interesting
#fifthgear #jasonandtiff

Now I know It's a Bank Holiday.
I have found a channel showing" The Great Escape"
A real classic!

Have got a question?
How many people who own a Tablet device turn them off when they are finished with them?
I guess most people let them "sleep"or the screen time out etc.
But i have actually observed at least 2 different people fully power them down.
And I thought to myself, at that point, was why?

Confused...

I sometimes despair of the way the Internet works ...
Have just received an email from Microsoft Email services advising me "to check the following unusual account activity" and change my password should this investigation prove to be an account highjack attempt.
In these emails, there were, identified, two alternate IP addresses.
Having nearly dived straight into changing passwords, AGAIN, I thought "No" and quickly investigated the possibility of seeing if I could ID the owners of said IP addresses.
After a couple of minutes, it became fairly obvious that the owners of the "dangerous addresses" turned out to be MICROSOFT!!
One address was ID'ed as a logon server (?) and the other was one or several email servers.

Breaking a generally applied habit ...
Am watching the F1 Practice session via Sky F1, where as normally I would stick to watching just the qualifying and the main race
#chineseGP #SkyF1 #Golewis

Am at the point of despair, I utterly and totally give up.
I'm off back to hide in bed.
I wakeup too early, go to pick my prescription to find the required Chemist is shut for Good friday (having passed at least three others that are open)
Have had to resort to the dark glasses because of a noticable headache and now, the killer.
Am having to re-install the windows tablet as I fired it up to an empty green screen
ARRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!

GIF's

    Have been playing with GIF creation.  

In all this time on the good old internet, these are some of the first constructs that I have even considered trying to build. And, with Photo images too.

What!

Am having a "whoops" moment.
Instead of having the TV blaring out pointlessly in the background, I have put a Flash Drive full of MP3's on play, through Dad's HiFi.
But it shows you how much notice I am really taking as I work on the computer.
The MP3's must have worked their way through the files and their are now playing some saved Christmas Tracks.
REALLY!!

Well that's that!

The first lie-in opportunity of the Easter Weekends goes begging.
Was rather hoping a relatively late 8 O’clock wakeup. Fat chance. I wake up even earlier than normal.
Oh well, will have to be forced to listen to the radio and play on the computer.
Life can be such a strain sometimes

What a surprise!!

Have just been watching the BBC Breakfast News and they have just run a story on a Which Product Investigation.
The Investigation?
The investigstion was into the amount of Lamb they could find in various Lamb Curries and Kababs.
And, out of 60 random tests they found 12 samples that had other types of meat , usually chicken or steak
But the more concerning was the fact that in 7cases the test team COULD'NT id the type of meat, at ALL.

Vandals?

Have just had one of those "love that" moments.
Having had a number of Car tyres be cut, the neighbours in a town in Cumbria had clubbed together to setup a CCTV camera to try an catch the vandals involved.
For a number of days nothing happens. People walk passed, but all the Cars remain unharmed.
Then, it was noticed that a Collie Dog wanders past. Nothing unusual in that as people walk their dogs in this area all the time.
Then the Collie turns and attacks the car tyres, puncturing the two at the roadside.
It turns out that this is the dog version of revenge. A Car had nearly run the Collie down around 18 Months ago, and she is just getting her own back.
At least the only "penalty' against the dog is that she will have to now walk the streets on a lead:

I may well just scream at the computer monitor/the internet in general if I click thorough to another website which then asks, via means of a pop-up, "Would you be kind enough to take a short survey to help improve our site"
The issue is always the same – the home page as just completed appearing in the browser and, even though you have only just arrived, and you haven't actually looked at ANYTHING associated with that site, up pops the YES/NO Buttons of a survey.
Will they all, for the love of Mike, pack it in.

Apologies

Apolgies due, all round.
I walk into the house saying "Hello" to Dougal as he looks down from the top of the stairs.
I then shout "Hello" to any one who was listening.
Silence came the reply.
"Ignorant Gits" answered the thought in my head.
I book off from work, watch some TV, drink some milk and decide to get changed.
It is then I realise that the house is devoid of Human's.
Now I feel a little guilty. But only a little...

Ha Ha, that was funny.
Was Watching a BBC report into discovery of a TRex fossil.
And how did the reporter replicate the means of discovering the correct boulder?
Both she, and the archaeologist, get down on all fours and start licking rocks?
Classic!

Stupid doen't describe it ..

Must have really had a stupid pill today (either that or the brain numbing is due to sinuses/cold symptoms’ – probably a mixture of the two)
Even though we have recently purchased the most powerful Desktop Computer that we can afford I have, for the third time today tried to get the poor thing to process 100+ images in Photoshop in one go, instead of doing them 10-20 at a time.
And, with that in mind, I am then getting annoyed with the technology, the hardware and everything else nearby when the fact that the computer is locking up is due to my own stupidity.
Time to start over, for the fourth time – and this time I WILL use Photoshop with only a handful of images at a time

Am still going through all the images taken, both still and video, in the last week (That being Alan's Birthday and our visit to Tywcross/Gadget Show)
I know this will be me being too critical, but I am very disappointed by my own photo's - especially from the NEC.
Was trying to use other techniques other than sticking the canera on auotmatic, and blinding, and ruining, other peoples' enjoyment of the show by blinding them with a flash
Too much of a perfectionist I guess....

Oh dear!!

I have, after many many years of using Photoshop Elements, got access to the full blown version.
Talk about Chalk and Cheese
I can now see my struggling with a steep learning curve heaving up over the horizon. And, on top of that I now have access to Light box!!
What the hell is the difference?
At this moment in time my mind is in total Park.Totally out to lunch.
The worst thing is, I suspect, the differences are probibly not that great. But at the minute?
Feeling like Mr Thicky don't really cover it !!
Only two days worth of pictures (that is quite a few!) to sort.

Nearly ready …..

Just finishing up breakfast, and then it will be off to the NEC for the Gadget Show Live.

Not really sure when (or if) this message will get sent.

It has been a peaceful night, phone wise as the only signal you can get is at the far end if the car park . And the WiFi has been restricted to 2 hours as the O2 wifi used here needs a confirmation code – which you receive via text!

Gadgetshow Live Day Two

Am sat in a hotel room having slept fairly badly – not that unusual I know, it’s not my own bed, the building has strange creaks and noises.

Am looking forward to getting to the NEC, although I’m not really sure what I’m wanting to see the most.

Wednesday 09 April 2014

Sort of caught between a rock and a hard place.

Need a Doctor’s appointment to sort out the usual Sinus Blockages (Boooooo….)

But, on the other hand Cathy and I should be away this afternoon for on overnighter in Birmingham to go see the Gadget Show Live (and the kids get to house sit – YEAH!!).

Suspect a Doctors appointment may well be slightly fanciful, I know how difficult it is to do these days – phone on auto dial from 8 it is then..

Wednesday ..

Sort of caught between a rock and a hard place.
Need a Doctor’s appointment to sort out the usual Sinus Blockages (Boooooo....)
But, on the other hand Cathy and I should be away this afternoon for on overnighter in Birmingham to go see the Gadget Show Live (and the kids get to house sit - YEAH!!).
Suspect a Doctors appointment may well be slightly fanciful, I know how difficult it is to do these days - phone on auto dial from 8 it is then..

It’s Monday

Oh mighty enthusiasm – where have you gone?

Does anyone know? Has anyone seen or heard from it?

NO! It must be Monday then

Now that’s what I call motor racing – both Lewis and Nico fighting for the lead, just what you would expect. Nice one

Formula 1

Am sat happily waiting for the 900th F1 race to start.

And, apparently it is the 250th race for Jenson Button. Shouldn’t be long now

Will someone tell those damn Birds to shut up!!
Where is Dougal when you need him?

What the!!

I wake up in the middle of the night, try to go back to sleep like any normal person would. But did it work.?

of course not!!

Have been watching Breaking Magic for the last 2ish hours. l guess I will nod off later, but I as long as I’m awake for the cars @ around4.

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Am sat on the couch in the lounge having, once again , woken again at stupid O'clock. Although I'm really tired, it would appear that, for now, sleep is out of the question. At least on demand has got Breaking Magic to watch. Kettle on and vainly trying to get comfy. Never mind, as long as I'm awake around4 for the GPI will be fine

Remote Posting

Have been trying to get the remote posting by email working on my wordpress site, usually without success.

Have made some alterations so we will see

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Isnt' it sad - but I'm so excited to be watching 15 to 1 on Channel 4 #15to1

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Why, in the name of all that is holy am I NOT doing something useful, but i am sat at the computer (not so bad) watching (or, should I say more listening) to the Top 100 Disney Moments.

I must be mad?

It’s Saturday!!

Am sat wondering what to do next.
Internet Explorer has stopped working in Desktop Mode, on the main computer (so I may well just leaving Chrome as the browser of choice and sod to Microsoft), yet, the IE Windows 8 App is fine and dandy – so work that out, because it makes little or no sense to me.
I have a list of jobs to do as long as your arm, but am thinking of having a MythBusters Marathon and a Nap.
Hummmmmmmmm…….. The nap sounds appealing

Good Old BT Internet.

I begin to wonder what is happening on the internet in the last few weeks
Several App's and websites have reported "Unusual Activity", along with a comment along the lines "We have detected unusual activity/and aborted/unusual login attempt" and then feeds back an IP address.
Having had one password to change this week I hit the Google SearchBox to research who the owner of the recorded IP address is ...

Having had IP addresses attached to servers in Norwich, Glasgow and several other UK locals, it turns out that the IP addresses belong to the BT Internet Network.
None of this ever happened why I was on copper broadband, only since I went onto Infinity.
At least it explains why Google and Yahoo thought my locale was somewhere other than North Lincolnshire

Political Cat fight.?

Have been listening to the news reports of the TV debate last night between Farage and Clegg. In sounds like I was right the do something else. An ill tempered shouting match from 2 un important party leaders