Not only stupendous, but fantastic, amazing and it all gives me cold feet and the collywobbles.
Last week my Mesh (PC) to you guys died no, went all queer on me! I had been having troubles with it, the mouse would freeze, or suddenly in the midst of working on something it would blank out and restart Windows again, a nuisance that let me tell you all. You should have heard the blue language. I spoke sternly at it, but to no avail suddenly when Windows started up there were a plethora of red lines right across the monitor, and that was IT. Next day I took it to my friend Igor the PC Dr. and he was having a look at it. And He found that although the hard drive was okay the motherboard had died. As I had been wanting to go over to Apple Mac like the rest of the family, although I had thought to wait till later in the year when the new Leopard: Snow Leopard had come out, I decided to change over there and then, took the bull by the horns, booked my a personal shopper and had Dave show me what is what in the Mac world. There just has been brought out a new i.Mac and I did a lot of research; originally thought I would go for the 24 inch, the bigger the better I thought; but Dave suggested the 2" easier on the eyes he said. He did suggest I upgraded to 4Gb memory and a 640 hard drive, stating that I would have more than enough. 
I also added Aperture 2 and FileMaker to it as well as ordering a new HP printer: the HP C8180 which is a scanner, printer, fax, copier and has Lightscribe facility (this allows to print pictures/or label straight on the DVD) something I have wanted for a long time. Those of you who have had my holiday movie DVD would know why. I put this order in almost immediately and awaited the delivery notice, it would take a week or so although that would mean the delivery would occur. Sooner than that I got a delivery during the 4 days we were away. Luckily I scanned the invoice and found to my horror that they had put in an Epson printer almost the same as the HP only no Lightscribe facility. I phoned immediately and pointed this out and they couldn't have been more helpful. They ordered the HP and told me that they would arrange for the Epson printer to be collected and refund me. And then on Monday 20th when I was away all day with the 'In Stitchers' for our AGM and they to deliver 20 cushions we had made for Horton House a special charity for returned wounded veterans. Little did I know that I was also getting a delivery of my own.
Upon my return John told me that the hallway was full of packages, and it certainly was: the i.Mac and TWO printers; they managed to get the HP to me as well. Oh joy oh bliss.
I shoved everything into my work room; drew the curtains and blinds so no one could look in, imagine a break-in at this time, not to be thought of. So I am one happy bunny but also rather scared. So guess what I am doing this weekend. I am also planning to clear out a lot of extraneous stuff to make the workroom a bit more user friendly, so I will be busy for now on! Bookshelves will be seen too, as well as other brickabrac.
That's it folks from your 
froggy friend
froggy friend
