It was destined to be a really good day because it started with a crashed pc!

Thursday morning/afternoons are full-on before going offline for a long weekend. And something banging around my brain needed downloading – maybe too touchy for gremlins?  There’s an announcement and funny photo to post before refuting a  claim of indoctrination (here) in detail.

So instead, may I invite you to join in an imaginary morning coffee at whatever time’s good for you after 8am here in UK?

Yes, my trusty home re-built pc failed to start – the one that gave me a Gospel lesson in my not connecting it correctly! (See And now a PC Gospel?)

On Tuesday a ‘blue screen of death’ greeted Nina when booting up for her emails. First thing this morning it refused to do anything – just a black, blank screen!  I switched off and rebooted again but this time a screen note appeared stating it wanted to try an auto-repair. So I got on with getting ready for the day whilst it did its stuff. Eighteen successful tests later it reported unable to fix because system restore and system files integrity tests failed. It claimed a patch is preventing system from starting! Maybe from the 12 updates automatically downloaded yesterday?

However, it allowed me to reboot and go into Windows after a delay. But then came an immediate flag that anti-virus and anti-spyware(!) needed updating. Normally, both get updated automatically but not even Norton’s web support’s auto-fix could sort it. The problem needed full removal of Norton security software and re-installation of a new  version!!  It needed a few minutes to familiarise myself with the basic changes but at least my various login settings had been kept safe. So my blogging day got delayed an hour or more.  Even so, it’s going to be a good day…

After last fortnight’s issues with a repeat of UK ISPs faulty filtering of WordPress on top of BT re-digging the same hole for the 10th time since July in the pavement outside, I  shouldn’t be surprised with these delays. (Four homes on our side of the road had their phone lines down after the electricity mains had to be removed and re-laid. At least ours remained operational throughout, thank the Lord).

So whilst Nina and I pop out for our usual coffee and croissants tomorrow, would you please join me in an imaginary discussion?