Wednesday, 20-05-26

Morning, everyone!  How are you all?

I was super chuffed with myself yesterday.  As you may know, if you are a customer, Virgin Media has a new router that they are distributing and mine arrived yesterday (I ordered it last week while on holiday and was getting a bit concerned as there was a five day window to get things all set up).
Simple, it said, very easy.  Ha!

Now, I have skills.  I make a mean loaf of bread.  I can knock up blankets galore.  I can read music.  However - technology is not a skill I own.  It terrifies me when they say insert the doofah into the whotsit and press the thiggumybob button for 3.258 seconds precisely . . .

(it feels like that anyway)

I looked at the back of the current router and aarrgghh!  I turned into a Corporal Jones for a few moments before calming down, tracking back all the many wires connected to the back - only to find that most of them were things I no longer use.  My 'land line', a storage thingy, the old PC that no longer works - that sort of stuff.  

After dealing with all that, it WAS easy.  There's even a button you can press to connect without having to put in a long and random password and also a QR code to get the password if needed.

However - my TV box wouldn't connect so I had another 'don't panic, don't panic' moment before Steve reminded me about settings for the TV box.  So when Thermione wouldn't connect, I knew what to do.  
He also told me there would have been an easier way and that was just to change the new router password to the old one online.  Why didn't the instructions just say that, eh?

My blood pressure is back to normal again now.  Just!

Then I worked off some of my aaarrrggghhh on the garden - moved some pots around, got the tomatoes in and did some weeding and tidying up.
So that was good.

Today is a day of changes.
Lindsey asked me could I change the time of P T to either the morning or later.  As I had a meeting in the morning, I chose the later option.  Then I had an email telling me that the person I was meeting with couldn't make it so I was able to change the P T time to the morning which suits me so much better.

So after P T I think I will go on to a garden centre and seek out some more tomatoes because why not?

Phew!  xx