which blog does this belong in, I wonder?
this one will do.
Bought a new mouse for the daughter's computer on the prinicple : 'If all else fails, buy a new one!'
she was trying to install it - there was a CD with drivers on it - but she couldn't do anything with the CD because her mouse didn't work... etc etc
Decided I would try and sort it out this afternoon myself ...NOOOO!!!! BAD IDEA!!!! Clean the bathrooms, do the hoovering, tedious, yes, but manageable and achievable, and you'll have something to show for it.
also thought I'd try and get the wireless one working on my computer (it still doesn't, and now I'm too embararassed to take it back, because it's probably something stupid that I'm doing, and anyway I've probably lost the receipt by now..')
Rewiring anything on my computer is a pain because I have these wonderful 'home office units' that the box fits into, so to get to the back of it you have to do a sort of limbo under the 'modesty panel' (remember those?) into the space where the attic roof slopes down, and try and squint at the the back of the thing in the dark - which is tricky, so you need a torch, and also reading glasses because you (I) can't get your head far enough away to actually FOCUS on the bloody thing.. and why do they make the connectors for mice so hard to get in the right place and so easy to bugger up?
well, I now have a mouse that works and so does she.
But I left my old reading glasses on the chair, then sat on them, then tried to bend the arm back into the right place, and now it has snapped off so they're sort of balanced on my left ear, these are the ones which are just about right for the distance the monitor is away from my face.
and I thought 'Robert Palmer radio' would be ALL RP, not just various things which sound a bit like him, well, OK, now it's Nils Lofgren, which is acceptable, I suppose.
I'm rambling again. But the fire I lit in the sitting room has gone out, so I might as well be up here doing this, except, when the hell am I going to read the 'New Statesman'?