If I have any regular readers, you will note that I have been less forthcoming with my comments lately. There's a very good reason for this, or as I would have typed a week ago " h 's a good eason fo his", basically, the old laptop had a keyboard explosion, 8 keys had lost their buttons. I struggled on, even to the length of borrowing a plug-in keyboard, but, have you tried using a keyboard on top of a keyboard?
So, when MrsT's laptop decided to start issuing blue smoke, I went a-begging of the paternal parent. Two laptops later and we're back on-line.
So now I have to try and get used to, not just a new keyboard layout, but a new operating system, Windows 8! So far, I have only found use for one or two things on the so-called "Metro" screen, the Google shortcut I added is weird, the twitter and facebook shortcuts are so "Retro", I feel as if it were back in the first few months of facebook going global.
Internet Explorer 10 keeps crashing, and I thought they would have had the glitches sorted already! So, the most used shortcut from the "Metro" screen is the "Desktop". But those users of the earlier Windows system will know and love the "Start" Button, the first point of call for closing the computer down, has gone! Still, Microsoft have given a simple way of turning off the computer from any screen.
Half of my programs that I used to use are 32 bit, so won't run on a 64 bit machine! Why MS didn't allow for this beggars belief. We're in a global recession, not enough time for the Software houses to get their act in gear to provide 64 bit versions of all their systems and not enough money to buy it if they had!
Still "Nil carborundum illegittimi" as the pig Latin phrase goes.
So, we have the ultimate in sporting weekends, mid-way through (yawn) Wimbledon, the British Grand Prix of Formula One Motor-Racing, the second Rugby test for the British Lions and the start of the Tour de France. I'm surprised the Cricket world hasn't got a big match on!
With a little bit of a fight for the remote, I got the TV onto the start of the cycling and the Mrs sitting there on her sofa looks up and says "Ooh, is that an easyJet team?", "No dear," I said trying not to be too patronising as all the participants in her choice all wear all white, "that's the Basque cycling team sponsored by a phone company, Euskatel-Euskadi!"
Pity that the Basques are so proud of their region that they won't let an airline that doesn't serve their area aid sponsoring their cycling team. Or Blogger, the people that host this blog, their "corporate" colour is orange too.
Cycling is a strange sport, the female of the species is as fierce as the male, we saw that last year at the Olympic Games. If we're lucky we see it if ITV4 show the National Championships as they did last week. It's a heck of a sport, and you have to be an amazingly fit person to do it, my hat is off to every sport cyclist.
It amazes me when footballers scream for millions of pounds wages per year when they will play two or three matches a week. The 198 cyclists facing the 3,404 kilometres (2115mi 259.65yd) over the next 23 days with only two days rest and will be in the saddle for about 90 hours. Each stage (other than the time trials) will be about 200km (124.274miles) long and at the end of seven of them there will be (hopefully) a sprint finish with speeds reaching 60 km/h (38 mph) on the flat, on a pushbike!!!
I know I ask many people to appreciate what it's like for disabled people, but can you imagine riding a bicycle for six hours and then being able to push it to nearly forty miles an hour? After driving that distance, I want to lie down and have a rest, (OK at the moment, I want to do that after 20 minutes), but when I was younger and fitter, I would have.
So, what's the rest of what's happening? I'm still preparing for round two of my DLA appeal, I'm still waiting for the ESA appeal and it's now a year since the Atos Assessment.
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