Upgrading to Windows 10
just wasn't happening yesterday evening. According to the upgrade app
the reservation is confirmed and the download is complete. I was then
asked to click on "Ok, let's continue" and I was
told to expect a ten second prep of my device.
Apparently.
What actually happened
was nothing. Nothing at all. The thing just hung. It hung all of
yesterday afternoon when I tried to upgrade. I re-started it
yesterday evening and it did nothing. I re-started it at bed time and
left it going.
I was woken at 1.30am by
a commotion outside. The garden of a house a few doors up the road
had caught fire and there were fire engines and flashing blue lights
and all sorts of fuss. Perhaps that had upset the upgrade. I set it
going yet again and went back to bed. The fire brigade finally shoved
off at 2.45am, and I eventually dozed off only to be woken by the
sound of the door bell and "Furry Face TM"
barking. I came down to find no one at the door and my dog fast
asleep. I must have dreamt it. And Windows 10 still wasn't happening.
I was finally woken by a
text message at 7am. I gave up all attempts at sleep and I got up to
find still nothing had happened with the so-called upgrade. I've
given up on it now.
I think the dishwasher
must be on the blink as well. When I put the thing on for the one
hour setting a count-down timer activates. It counts down from sixty
to zero as it washes, but actually takes about two hours to do so.
After brekkie I put the
lead onto "Furry Face TM" and we
went for a walk round the park. Some of our walks are eventful;
others not so. Today's was one of the quieter ones. In fact other
than a run-in with a black pug and Fudge being startled by a young
girl singing along with the strange voices in her head the walk
passed off uneventfully.
I took a circuitous route
to Canterbury via Folkestone to see the baby (and his crew)
this morning. Littlun was fine, as was Charlie, Sam and "Daddies
Little Angel TM". From there I drove up to
Hawkinge. I needed some fruit for lunches during the week. I would be
driving straight past a Lidl so popping in made sense; in future I
shall carry on driving straight past that Lidl. Their fruit looked
manky. Mind you there was a geocache in the car park so the trip
wasn't entirely wasted.
Once at work I spent much
of today in a rather reflective frame of mind. I *could* have
been starting work on a secondment to the hospital lab on the Island
of Saint Helena. I turned that option down. I can't help but wonder
what might have been...
Once home after the late
shift I found out that my dog is a hero. Apparently when "er
indoors TM" let him out for a tiddle late
last night he was the first one to see the flames of last night's
fire, and it was his woofing that raised the alarm.
Good boy Fudge !!!
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