Three in the house from the radio station, being backed up and brought up to date. (They haven’t been on line for over a year).

I’d forgotten what a pain Windows update is-  you download loads of updates, run it again and another dozen appear to patch the patches. You eventually get it down to zero but that doesn’t mean all is well, of course. After running various tidy-up tools and deleting obsolete software, the system is clean, but then you change some hardware or update some drivers and the process starts again (although generally not as far down the iterative tree).

Whilst the PC goes through its Saint Vitus dance, it has given me a chance to sort out the spare room/office in a small way, the room with ten years of accumulated junk. It is also an iterative process- stuff to chuck has been chucked, stuff to go to the charity  is being decanted into charity sacks, books & videos are going onto shelves, paperwork into the paperwork heap, hardware into various boxes.

The next stage will be to sift the hardware into items and cables, then different types of cables. Then, gradually, I will remember what some of these obscure cables match up with.  (& some of them won’t be worth keeping!)

Eventually, my leg will be strong enough to make it up the lift ladder, when there are even more cables, bits & pieces & packaging. Whenever I go up there, I am reminded of a Spitting Image sketch starring an Indiana Jones Character, the punchline I don’t recall now. Anyway, he was rescuing something from a restaurant and had to pass through “the room of meaningless cardboard”.

I’ve got one of those…

Meanwhile, here is another shot of David admiring the Parrot at the Woodlands Hotel.