Sunday, August 16, 2009

Nightmare at the Cubbyhole

Morning folks and I hope you are all having a fabulous weekend.....well it can't be any worse than the one I am having......started off as all weekends do on Friday night........little did I know when I sat down to finish off the Penny Black Saturday Challenge post....there was a disaster waiting to happen......first no broadband connection ...and while I am trying to sweet talk the old Home Hub to be good....the computer gave up the will to live and crashed big time.....not even a flicker of life.....panic stations..so it was a case of jammies on....coffee at the ready and burn a bit of midnight oil....nothing else for it but to reinstall the whole Windows Operating System and that means back to square one...everything gone....then all that stuff that we rely on......Picasa....Firefox...Virus Programme had to be downloaded again and these things are never in a hurry when you are waiting for them....but I did finally manage to schedule the post.....then it was off to bed at goodness knows what time.
It is working albeit on a wing and a prayer and the connection can just suddenly drop......I have so much to do that honestly it couldn't have happened at a worse time....but hey that's life and convinced the whole problem lies with my BT Home Hub I called BT.    Now a bit of subterfuge was called for here....if you call Broadband faults.....you are talking to the guy in Dehli and to be honest I didn't have the time or energy so I called Customer Services and pressed the button for billing....I know...underhand tactics but drastic measures are called for here.....then went to town on this poor guy and after a war of words he agreed to send me a new Hub.....arrives Tuesday.....so fingers crossed it will solve my problems.    And just to make my day..... I have been forced to turn on Comment Moderation again due to some sickos who have nothing better to do than be nasty ....so maybe they will now crawl back under their stones.  May be MIA for a few days but will catch up with you all when normal service is resumed at the cubbyhole.

Big Hugs Kath xxxxxxx
P.S. To answer Lesley's question....re comment on Grand Tour.....the multi coloured filing cabinet in the pic is a rolling cart which I bought from Costco but the trays are only A4 size....so no good for your 12 x 12's...I couldn't e-mail you or in fact visit your blog because you have not shared your profile but hope this helps.