My apologies for the missing blogs these past couple of days. Not that it effects very many people as I have very few followers. After all, who wants to know what a nearly 90-year-old man does all day long. The only ones who might be interested are already in their graves or close to it…

Long story short, basically it came down to an equipment problem. I have two laptop computers one of which is not very old and has never been used. I can’t remember why I bought it, but it was probably on sale, and I thought I might need a back-up. Anyway, other than messing around with it and adding a few programs, it has never been used seriously.

Which brings me to the current story. I was working away on the “old” one when all of a sudden, everything just locked up, and I could not find any way to free it. So, the following day, I got the unused one out and started to set it up so I could use it instead of old faithful.

In the meantime, I took the “old” one to the repair shop and left it with them and when I got back, continued working on the new one which required setting up as it had never been used. Whether it was something I did (probably) or a real problem, when I started to set up the new (to me) computer, I ran into all kinds of problems. I spent several hours working on it and finally got it straightened out to where it was useable. Even then, I was unable to load the programs I needed to continue with the blog.

I worked on it for a couple of days over the weekend and got some of it working. When Monday came around, I drove to where the “old” computer was being repaired as I had received a message that it was ready for me to pick up. I chatted briefly with the repair man, and he explained what had gone wrong and that he had it fixed. I thanked him profusely for his efforts, paid my bill and dove back to Henly.

I spent the rest of the day setting the computer up at least to where it was useable and this story is the end result of my efforts…

With the computer problems taking up the previous few days, I sat down and started from Monday, today, to recapture the blog. I didn’t even try to recapture the missing days knowing how bad my memory is nowadays. Nothing of major importance had happened anyway.

The one exception to that was spending one afternoon and evening being entertained by the three older girls, Lyla, Celia, Addie and baby Evelyn who tears around all over the place at two years old. She tries hard to talk but only she knows what she is saying.

I spent most of the day either dog walking or just sitting around and when it got dark, spent several hours playing catch up with the blog. Hopefully, my computer problems are behind me. That is of course, right up until the next problem comes along. Oh well.