I'm BAAAAAAAACK!!!
Jun. 1st, 2026 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartOn my desktop PC, I mean. Yay!
My friendly neighbour, the PC guy, did show up last evening, after all, and tried to overhaul the old girl... with mixed results. The original plan of installing a new hard drive and copying everything from the old one didn't work, despite several attempts. Apparently, Windows 7 can't deal with the necessary programmes. So, as a temporary solution he downloaded Avast for the time being; later he'll install Windows 10 on my PC. We decided against Windows 11 because it apparently sucks from such a Luddite user's point of view as I am; and since I don't do anything else but a bit of browsing, YouTube watching and Solitaire playing, Windows 10 will do well enough for a while yet. *fingers crossed*
So, until that happens, I can at least type on a proper keyboard and read on a suitably large screen, which is a true relief for my poor eyes. With which I'll go and see an optometrist, soon, because my left I is doing weird things. Like seeing vertical lines in a Salvador Dalí version. So yeah, better sooner than later.
Other than that, life is peachy. Tomorrow I'll go to the dentist again, in the hope that the root canal treatment will indeed be possible - you never know until they go in deep - and that the barbed wire will be finally removed. I'm looking forward to proper eating and tooth brushing again. Such are the joys of an old lady.
My friendly neighbour, the PC guy, did show up last evening, after all, and tried to overhaul the old girl... with mixed results. The original plan of installing a new hard drive and copying everything from the old one didn't work, despite several attempts. Apparently, Windows 7 can't deal with the necessary programmes. So, as a temporary solution he downloaded Avast for the time being; later he'll install Windows 10 on my PC. We decided against Windows 11 because it apparently sucks from such a Luddite user's point of view as I am; and since I don't do anything else but a bit of browsing, YouTube watching and Solitaire playing, Windows 10 will do well enough for a while yet. *fingers crossed*
So, until that happens, I can at least type on a proper keyboard and read on a suitably large screen, which is a true relief for my poor eyes. With which I'll go and see an optometrist, soon, because my left I is doing weird things. Like seeing vertical lines in a Salvador Dalí version. So yeah, better sooner than later.
Other than that, life is peachy. Tomorrow I'll go to the dentist again, in the hope that the root canal treatment will indeed be possible - you never know until they go in deep - and that the barbed wire will be finally removed. I'm looking forward to proper eating and tooth brushing again. Such are the joys of an old lady.
