NOV 17, 16 .. MARRIAGE AND WINDOWS 10 ..

Oh come on blogspot! 

Pick yourself up off the proverbial floor. You look silly sprawled out on the carpet. Get yourself up and stop miss-behaving.  

Patti and Rockin' Robb, did either of you pick up on that? Miss-behaving.

I am doing a dot.NET Post here on you blogspot. I KNOW, you are used to long fancy posts with photos and the like. You are not used to me coming over here to ..

TELL IT LIKE IT IS!

'Zilla left me the below comment over on dot.NET ..

Hi Cap,

A nifty travel log on your journey to Ras Al Khaimah! It’s great that you have your new laptop along to keep your stories moving along – that is when you have the time to do all the posting – a big job but appreciated by all!

A question occurred to me on why you waited a long period of time to buy a laptop prior to your many earlier trips? You certainly really hit the ticket now as I can see you are in 5th gear (say racing gear) by all the lovely photos, stories that you are doing! Really super, as I said before it’s like you are taking folks on a beautiful tour as you can really believe you are there – I can even taste your lemon on your fish meal (I should say your friend’s meal)!

I know Dubai is a “fairly” rich country by viewing all the beautiful buildings and the on-going construction, so my next task is to goggle the country and check the stats regarding income, etc. BTW the last GP of the season for F1 is on Sunday, November 27, 2016 and the final race will determine the World Champion. Lewis won today’s race in Brazil and it was a very exciting race due to poor racing conditions as it rained very heavy throughout most of the day’s race. The race was “red flagged” twice due the down pour and serious accidents. The race had a 2-hour limit, however the race was completed with one minute to spare! A very exciting race!
Enjoy your travels!!

zilla

To 'Zilla I replied as follows ..

So good to know you are doing OK ‘Zilla and following along here. Because of visa restriction time duration issues and airline difficulties in changing my flight reservations, I simply am not able to stay for the Grand Prix race the weekend of the 25-27th of November. I wish I could but I can’t.

I have had, I have owned, my very own, personal, Apple iBook G4, laptop since March of 2005. I have had my very own personal laptop for over eleven years and counting. I have a thousand musical songs on iTunes on my Apple laptop.

Because of weight, because of theft issues, because of me being able to lose it, because of internet WiFi connection issues (in past years it was not what it now is), because of fragility issues (my laptop getting damaged), because of the abundance and the availability of Internet Cafes where ever I have been, I have always chosen to travel sans my laptop. I have had the choice for over eleven years now to take it with me or to leave it home.

Yes! I am loving having this new Lenovo, state-of-the-current-art, ThinkPad with me. Yes! Having it with me has put me into 5th racing gear for sure.

Learning to cope with Windows 10 was a challenge. I survived it. Windows 10 no longer is my opponent, it is my friend.

Smiles ‘Zilla .. So nice to have you here with me as I write my Posts. Your Ally since 1975. Cap

Stop it blogspot! Stop squeeling. You will recover from a real, tell it like it IS, post being put up here on you.

'Zilla here is another reason I have not taken my own laptop with me. At an Internet Cafe or a library, IF something goes wrong, all I have to do is ask for help and I get help.

Well, the other day, here in my hotel room, DISASTER HIT ME. My LENOVO 'froze up' totally. I had no cursor. I could do nothing.

Do all of you out there realize this: To use WINDOWS 10, MircroSoft has your personal computer's password!

Got it? MicroSoft, in a way, 'owns' your own personal computer. I have this first hand from some computer 'geeks' over here. I could not believe it. But when it came time for me to use Mister LENOVO, MicroSoft invited themselves in and I let them come in.

I did not fully realize what I was doing, but whatever it was I did, in came MicroSoft.

Now back to my DRAMA. Here I sit. Paralyzed. Sitting here in front of Mister LENOVO who is locked up. Here in the United Arab Emirates.

What to do? DO I DO a forced shutdown? I am stymied.

When what to my wondering eyes should happen? I am just sitting here in a real quandry. 

Out of the blue, a message appears upon Mister LENOVO's screen that reads:

We have detected a problem with your computer. We are going to investigate the problem. We will do a restart.

I sat, idle, wondering what in the world was going on.

A message appears:

It is now OK for you to start your computer.

I did a start up. Everything was fine.

It was like nothing had happened ..

BUT LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING! 

Something had happened here and what had happened here was not exactly clear to yours truly.

WINDOWS 10, you are making a believer out of me.

Am I dreaming this up? Nope. My worst nightmare was underway, a sick computer, and me with no viable alternatives.

FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH .. Something IS happening here and what it is ain't exactly clear.

For what it's worth .. Cap

I get up in the morning. I turn on Mister LENOVO. A message appears: Your computer was scanned and it is up-to-date. There are no problems or potential problems.

NO! I am not dreaming this up.