When computers take over, will they fix themselves?

 

I’m still trying to figure out this damn Microsoft 365 system and what happens when the “free trial”  of 365 ends.  So far I don’t have anything better than “wait and see”  as a solution.  I’m not going to pay for something that requires a fee every year but am not sure what I’ll need to do instead. I did find that I was actually able to boot up the old laptop which means I could get everything that had not been fully backed up! I don't trust the laptop at all but it consenting to work does mean it continues as a backup comp, which is good.

Yesterday I got so far into my attempts to get 365 through my head that I failed to even check whether gaming was on, having the [mistaken] belief that it wasn’t because one player was away, the gamesmaster had been to the dentist a day earlier and it was too freaking cold.

This got me dug up just past 7.40 ish with a player trying to call me on Messenger.  I had no idea how to get it to let me actually answer the call as it seemed to want me to download something first, which wasn’t going to happen under pressure.  I was also halfway through watching The Walking Dead:  Dead CIty episode 2 and so nowhere near reality.  I agreed [texting] to come play Cards Against Humanity as I knew it wouldn’t work with only three people but really couldn’t get my head working.  I wasn’t in “talk to people” mode and a three-sixty in plans had frozen my thinking! 

Michael did kindly offer to come get me which was good as it really was too freaking cold to ride a bike for 20 minutes to get there.  It was down to around 7^C by the time we finished, if you want to know what a West Aussie considers to be too freaking cold, apart from this entire winter so far.  We had a record low, as in it got just below zero which hasn’t happened for seven years, last Monday.

So today was catch up on sleep, read, do laundry and make a trip to the shopping centre for (a) my drugs and (b) other stuff I forgot the day before.  Most of the laundry was done so I just had the one sheet to wash and other things to bring in as they dried.

I have read the first two books of the Scholomance trilogy by Naomi Novik and the ‘teaser’ for book three.  For reasons, the digital library system made me wait several weeks for book 1, whereas I took book 2 straight out without waiting and now I’m waiting 10 weeks for book 3.  I finished and returned both within 2-3 days each so am hoping other patrons will be similarly speedy and I don’t actually have to wait that long.  While I do, I’m reading an actual copy of Simon Scarrow’s latest Eagles of Rome series, Death to the Emperor.   Nero is the emperor concerned and I’m not certain when he died, so am not checking to make sure I don’t spoiler myself.  I don’t think it was this soon though, so it may be wishful thinking on the part of the British tribes.