It was touch and go but we had a BBQ tonight, what with how the weather has been over the last few days we where not sure if it would even be dry!
The weather gods were good to us and it was dry and the sun was out for just a little while. The only other problem was that it was a race cooking all the food before we run out of BBQ gas, and thats with that gauge thing they have on gas bottles these days.
Other news I have read a few books that for one reason or another I have not yet recorded here on my blog, but I promise I will do soon.
One of the reasons for not doing the blog has been that for some time now it takes a very long time for it to load up no matter what computer I use to access it, why?
Showing posts with label time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time. Show all posts
08 August, 2010
21 January, 2010
Blogs
Funny how one minute you have lots you want to say in your blog and the next either you do not have the time or you don't have anything that you think needs to be said.
21 May, 2009
07 March, 2009
Return
I think it has something to do with the extra daylight or something, but I keep wanting to get back to my different projects and get something done with them.
I noticed that this appears to happen every year at about the same time, it just that I have never in the past bothered to note down and record the fact, so here am I recording the fact that I feel an itch or even a compulsion to do something to each of my projects that have sat now, some of them for months.
The big and burning question is which project should I have a go at first?
At this time I do not know which one would be great to start with first.
I must admit that one problem that I have not yet solved for some of the projects is that I am now on a new computer which runs a new operating system, which is called Vista, now to me XP was better and you knew where things where and how it worked.
For some reason stuff has either been renamed or even moved and for what I can see I can't fathom why some of the changes have been made. It also appears that I am not the only person who also thinks this, but this is all a side note to the fact that some of the software that I used on my old machine was already old on that so you can imagine just how old it is and so when I tried to install it the end result was, well no result in that it did not install. As you can probably tell this did not make me happy, to add to the fun? some of the software I use has suffered in that the company that used to make it have been taken over and the new company does not offer any patches to allow their software to run on the new operating system, in fact I think they want you to buy the latest software at their very latest price.
Now some of the software I used was brought cheap, I mean Knock down prices, because at that time it was old and near end of line and there was a new version of the software out which had the latest bell and whistles and all that sort of stuff.
So as I can't affored to spend 600 uk pounds on software that I only use perhaps once a month or so I shall have to spend some time on Google and find out how other folk out there got there old software running on new hardware and operating systems, I mean I can't be the only one with this problem surely!
Anyway I think I have ranted enough, I am also sure that I have said all of this before in an earlier Blog, but as this is my space my words I can repaet myselft as much as I want.
Mind you if I keep doing this I will not get on with the projects will I?
I noticed that this appears to happen every year at about the same time, it just that I have never in the past bothered to note down and record the fact, so here am I recording the fact that I feel an itch or even a compulsion to do something to each of my projects that have sat now, some of them for months.
The big and burning question is which project should I have a go at first?
At this time I do not know which one would be great to start with first.
I must admit that one problem that I have not yet solved for some of the projects is that I am now on a new computer which runs a new operating system, which is called Vista, now to me XP was better and you knew where things where and how it worked.
For some reason stuff has either been renamed or even moved and for what I can see I can't fathom why some of the changes have been made. It also appears that I am not the only person who also thinks this, but this is all a side note to the fact that some of the software that I used on my old machine was already old on that so you can imagine just how old it is and so when I tried to install it the end result was, well no result in that it did not install. As you can probably tell this did not make me happy, to add to the fun? some of the software I use has suffered in that the company that used to make it have been taken over and the new company does not offer any patches to allow their software to run on the new operating system, in fact I think they want you to buy the latest software at their very latest price.
Now some of the software I used was brought cheap, I mean Knock down prices, because at that time it was old and near end of line and there was a new version of the software out which had the latest bell and whistles and all that sort of stuff.
So as I can't affored to spend 600 uk pounds on software that I only use perhaps once a month or so I shall have to spend some time on Google and find out how other folk out there got there old software running on new hardware and operating systems, I mean I can't be the only one with this problem surely!
Anyway I think I have ranted enough, I am also sure that I have said all of this before in an earlier Blog, but as this is my space my words I can repaet myselft as much as I want.
Mind you if I keep doing this I will not get on with the projects will I?
14 February, 2009
Projects
Projects
Some work has been done on starting up the Citrus Project, I have got as far as starting to redo the website.
Dirk Maggs book, this is still stuck in edit hell with no further progress at this time, although a journalist did as for a draft copy of it even though I told him that it was a draft and that it was stuck in edit hell. So far I have had no feedback on what he thinks of it yet. It is also becoming very clear to me that I am going to have to revise the book even before I have completed it, as Dirk is not standing still and is still producing very good work(must remember not to say that bit to him!!)
So as always it comes down to time, time is very precious and is always in short supply and to make thing worse as you get older it speeds up and passes you by must faster.
Some work has been done on starting up the Citrus Project, I have got as far as starting to redo the website.
Dirk Maggs book, this is still stuck in edit hell with no further progress at this time, although a journalist did as for a draft copy of it even though I told him that it was a draft and that it was stuck in edit hell. So far I have had no feedback on what he thinks of it yet. It is also becoming very clear to me that I am going to have to revise the book even before I have completed it, as Dirk is not standing still and is still producing very good work(must remember not to say that bit to him!!)
So as always it comes down to time, time is very precious and is always in short supply and to make thing worse as you get older it speeds up and passes you by must faster.
18 July, 2008
Dirk Maggs Book Part 19
UPDATE
The update is that I have not had the time or the energy to do any more to the book at this time.
The update is that I have not had the time or the energy to do any more to the book at this time.
26 January, 2008
Maggs Book Part 3
Update time
The news is that there has not been any more work done on the book. This due to real life getting in the way and me not having the time to get my head around the next chapter that has to be done in draft format first.
Maybe in the next few weeks there will be time.
The news is that there has not been any more work done on the book. This due to real life getting in the way and me not having the time to get my head around the next chapter that has to be done in draft format first.
Maybe in the next few weeks there will be time.
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