A better day

[marsden_online]

Today I:
Went for a walk to get groceries
Sprayed the roses
Emptied the litterbox
Phoned K for a chat and catch up
Cleaned the shower etc
Blogged
Hopefully solved my mother's issue with hotmail, and showed her how to compose replies in notepad, because they're on rural dial up and there are ... connection issues.
Mentally cursed my sister for teaching my mother to use IE (and hotmail) when there is a perfectly good installation of firefox on the laptop.
Sat in on a very positive SAGA committee meeting, but failed to keep as quiet as I had planned.
- was indirectly complimented - it's not very often I'm legitimately "too old" for something :D . It was also a very good point.
Got some more groceries. The supermarket silly season hath started.
Bundled a bunch of information together and emailed it.
Watched an episode of what I guess is NZs current answer to Antiques Roadshow. Followed by an episode of the real thing. Followed by what was left of The Incredibles, which showed the difference in quality between Telstra Cable and Freeview nicely.

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Significant amounts of the day were thus not spent blankly in front of the computer, which was good for me. For the moment I feel much happier.

Thinking about tomorrow though I think I'm feeling what ivoriephoenix has described as "the pre-monday fear". I can identify points why, and they're nuts - anyway there's nothing to do but deal with it for the moment.

Courtesy of yesterday I'm still one major point on the to-do list behind, but the deadline for that isn't until Tuesday evening so as long as I have both tomorrow and Tuesday afternoons (one may be enough) I'll be fine.

Comments

[cthulhu-dream.livejournal.com]

What is the difference between Telstra Cable and Freeview? I have neither, but I'm curious.

[marsden-online.livejournal.com]

Telstra cable is Sky repackaged delivered along Telstra Clear's cable network. Like Sky, it's available in digital/HD if you have the right decoder/pay the right price (I only have an analoge one).

Freeview (http://freeviewnz.tv/) is delivered in digital/HD when available and (as I undrstand it) up-sampled by the decoder when not anyway.

[martial-lore.livejournal.com]

Mothers and computers are an interesting mix - the other day my mother was looking for a website, and was wondering why when she typed in the url that she got a bunch of results... turns out she was typing the address into the google search bar... :P

[marsden-online.livejournal.com]

Apparently a lot of people do that - it's like the old "AOL is the internet' thing.

They've been taught to search for a site using google but aren't even aware you can type an address directly into the address bar, so they confuse the two or believe that he only way to find a site is to search for it.

[martial-lore.livejournal.com]

Aye, but I thought Mum knew better... in fact I'm sure she does. Must've been a blonde moment...