I'm Doing it

I know you're asking, where are you?

I am here and working and in the next couple of days there will be a post on monthly as opposed to annual financial ratio analysis, on THREE ways to solve simultaneous equations using Excel methods including array formulas and SOLVER and more.

So, where have I been? I've been to a graveyard. My Macbook Pro graveyard.  It died on me at a really inconvenient time, taking a backup drive with it, causing me massive inconvenience and waste of time.

Something seems to have overheated and burned out and having bought a replacement Windows laptop, the Macbook will have no more money spent on it. Dead. Bereft of life. It is no more.

My macbook journey was enlightening but I will not be repeating the experience: they are premium products with a premium price and I have reverted to my cheaper strategy of buying something decent and serviceable that doesn't need a mortgage to buy it.

So, watch out for the updates.

Sunglasses ... I need them ... but where to buy?

Ever since I developed my minor eye problems I should wear sunglasses in bright weather.  I did. Then either I lost or broke them.

Because I wear prescription specs I need clip on or flip up sunglasses. But where to buy them?

I bought a pair years ago in duty free at DXB. I accidentally lost them in Siem Reap. I found a replacement pair in Siem Reap too. That was about three years ago and all was well.

Then they went. DXB? No more clip ons there. Everywhere I went I looked. No one sells them.

Two days ago I looked online for these things and found loads. I mean loads. Ordinary and designer alike.

Yesterday, re energised, I went to a sunglasses shop and found a pair of magnetic clip ons. They come with their own plain glass frame as they were magnetic clip ons. Some progress.

As we walked along we passed a small shop that had a few sunglasses in so Mrs W said, try in there. I said, no chance! She went in. Can you believe it? They had several pairs and for 480 Baht I bought a pair ...

You never know, do you!

DW

Do you Believe in Curses?

I don't mean voodoo type curses but things that conspire against in certain situations?

Burnley played Everton yesterday and I found it being streamed live in 365sport.  I am a subscriber so, a little late, I decided to watch it.

Slow ... sooooooo slow ... kept getting the blue wheel of death. That was on the phone.

Opened the laptop and logged into the hotel's wifi system. You have opened too many connections ... no I haven't.  Tried again. The same. The same. The same.

Called the help desk and she was expecting my call because within seconds she told me she had reset my connection.

It didn't work and using the BBC text service I could see the goals were going in. Frustration unbounded.

Tried again. It didn't work. I rebooted.

It worked. Blue wheel of death. It froze. Blue wheel of death. Half time. It froze.

OK! You win voodoo child, I'll stop trying to watch it and do something else. I didn't even see a ball being kicked.

Modern technology is the best and the worst. Liberating and restraining.

Here is an uncurse: for some reason they were showing the whole of the 2009 - 2010 Burnley v Man Utd game on TV here and I switched on in time to see Robbie Blake's wonder goal. I love watching that goal!

Swings and roundabouts of life.

DW