Moonwalking to Fleetwood Mac

How about this for one clever pony!

Having a great evening

Every few weeks, Keith and I get together with friends, usually in their house, because Howard enjoys cooking and entertaining and because Keith and I never seem to be organised enough to remember when it's getting time to get together again.

Tonight was one of those times.

Over the past few months, Howard has had a few health problems, notably heart related but he is doing well at present. Howard is a great believer in herbal remedies too, as attested by his large box of packets of pills for various aliments, more than you could shake a stick at.( Some time ago, he recommended one such remedy to Keith for his leg problems and Keith duly ordered and took them, resulting in a couple of fountain-like bleeds from his veins, in turn, necessitating new stair and bedroom carpets, but that's another story.)

Tonight was blood pressure night, instigated by Keith's mention of feeling constantly tired and sleepy, which the rest of us thought could be a side effect of his current medication. 

The general consensus was that he should high-tail it back to the GP to discuss other options - which is what I have been telling him to do for the past fortnight, to no avail, of course.

This gave rise to Howard bringing out his blood pressure monitor and a general comparison of BP readings...

A great time was had by all but eventually, I had to wake Keith up, prise him off the sofa and lead him to the car for the homeward journey - a bit worrying really, as he was driving us home.

Seriously, we had a very pleasant evening.

Sixty IS the new forty, you know!

Caught in the Apple web

Keith has fixed the other Apple Macbook and then spent the whole of yesterday evening playing with it. He has loaded all his information, music etc on it, set up iCloud and linked to his iPhone.

Of course, he doesn't really have an iPhone or an Apple Macbook... 

He's just testing them.

Of course he is...

In praise of Apple

For Christmas, I was very, very lucky. Father Christmas, aka Keith, bought me a lovely new iPad, then Elder Daughter was upgrading her phone to an iPhone 5 and passed on her iPhone 4 to me and I was hooked on Apple.

Because the phone had a cracked screen, Keith set to and replaced it and there began a new string to his bow - buying non-working iPhones and repairing them to re-sell. It was but a small effort for me to direct his eyes to non-working Apple laptops and, before we knew it, we had taken delivery of a poorly Macbook and a Macbook Pro. 

Now the Macbook Pro was a bargain, sold as having a non-working DVD/CD writer but otherwise in great condition and with a 500 Gb hard drive. I pounced on it as soon as it arrived and soon had it up and running with all my stuff on it. Useless for Keith to protest that it was to be repaired and sold on. Forget it!

The operating system was Snow Leopard, which apparently could be upgraded to Mountain Lion. Yes, I realise all you Windows users out there are probably scratching your heads by now, but stay with me. The previous owner had wiped all his personal stuff off but it took a long time to boot up and I couldn't access iCloud, although I could with Mountain Lion OS, so I bought and downloaded Mountain Lion and proceeded to install it. Simple, right? 

WRONG! After 5 hours of frustration and angst, I was between a rock and a hard place and the only way out was to reboot it with the disc that had come with it - which was an earlier OS, so now I didn't even have access to Apple Appstore. Could I do a clean install of Mountain Lion, I wondered and went online to find out.

YES ....Oh,  but only if you already have Snow Leopard. Grrrrr!

Snow Leopard could not be downloaded, but had to be ordered and delivered by snail mail, so I rang Apple and spoke to a very nice man.

"I have tried to install Mountain Lion and it's impossible!" I said.

He reacted as if I had kicked his pet dog.

"Oh no, it really isn't!" he protested.

The Snow Leopard disc arrived the following day - great service!

I installed it and the associated updates with no problems and was now back to where I had been before my eyes had fallen on the dreaded Mountain Lion.

Should I?

"Go on, do it!" said Keith, so I did.

It went on like a dream!

So, should the man on the phone be among the millions of people who will undoubtedly be reading this, you were right and thank you, Apple for great service!

Oh and the best bit?  Somewhere  in the house of the previous owner, there is a small child who inserted a penny into the CD/DVD writer and then watched as his father wondered why it no longer worked. 

It works fine now!

Success!

As of today, this young lady is now a consultant in Care of the Elderly!

(And she will probably be none too happy that I have posted this photo...)

Nice one from TK

Getting Married Jack, age 92, and Gill, age 89, are all excited about their decision to get married. They go for a stroll to discuss the wedding and on the way they pass a chemist shop and Jack suggests they go in.  Jack addresses the man behind the counter: "Are you the owner?"  The pharmacist answers, "Yes."         Jack: "We're about to get married. Do you sell heart medication?"  Pharmacist: "Of course we do."         Jack: "How about medicine for circulation?"         Pharmacist: "All kinds"  Jack: "Medicine for rheumatism?"  Pharmacist: "Definitely."  Jack: "How about suppositories?"  Pharmacist: "Yes"         Jack: "Medicine for memory problems, arthritis, and Alzheimer's?"  Pharmacist: "Yes, a large variety. The works."         Jack: "What about vitamins, sleeping pills, antidotes for Parkinson's disease?" Pharmacist: "Absolutely."         Jack: "Everything for heartburn and indigestion?"   Pharmacist: "We do..."  Jack: "You sell wheelchairs and walkers and canes?"  Pharmacist: "All speeds and sizes."  Jack: "Adult incontinence pants?"         Pharmacist: "Yes."  Jack: "Then we'd like to use this store for our wedding present’s list..."

Just look at this!

As Keith is now on his third day of not smoking, he was interested to see what he's been missing all

this time!