Twisted Kites

Driving home from work through the little village of Shilton, 2 o’clock in the morning. A handful of cars about. The one in front had his rear fog lights on and one coming the opposite way had his full beams on. Think I was seeing stars the rest of the way home.

Watford Gap have starting allowing us meals and Captains Club points again, as long as we take in passengers. Fair enough, still not the official rules but better than nothing. So many of us have been allowing passengers to go in there where we can. Roadchef are happy (well they bloody should be!), drivers are happy and passengers are happy. It’s a start.

Other stuff… Windows Update messed up the settings for the new graphics card, lowering max resolution for my monitor to 1024 x 768 so it looked stupid and clunky. Took ages getting it right this morning, back to native 1280 x 1024 now. Seemed to be something to do with the TV connection (dual display). Things are going nicely with N really enjoying her company had a lovely day in the Cotswolds with her last week (and her family). Managed to get my phone sorted yesterday. Turns out computer drivers for it seemed to have disappeared totally mid-update, odd. Had to download PC Suite again, reinstall phone drivers too. Luckily phone would still turn on so was able to redo the phones firmware update. Shame that restoring the phone backup (all settings, SMSs, apps and contacts) just crashed the backup app. But luckily I was able to dig into the PC folders and double click the actual backp file itself to trigger it. Phew. Our wheelie bin went missing after collection Friday, but returning from work just now it was on our path. No idea where it was or how it got back, just glad it did!

Been a funny old week.

My internet connection was switched today. Switched to Be Unlimited as they have fast internet, unlimited downloading and a good price. Initial speed seems to be about 10mbps, much better than what it was, at 2mbps.

My ‘Be box’ modem/router arrived yesterday so that was already plugged in so was just a nice hassle free switch.

Quick tweak to the network settings, job done. I like it when things go well. Just need to get the Macbook sorted out, later. Too busy catching up on the Lost finale.