Travel

Richard to Skipton by bus.

MSN, MP3 & Tidying.

MSN and MP3 still giving trouble.
Discarded another box, and papers from bookshelf.
Am sorting out why I get an email after a posting.

Breakfast on Dec 27 '06

Teebay for our breakfast, after a circuitous tour trying to find the route from J38 northbound, through Teebay village and then to the northbound service station. Coming back we found a quick way to the southbound side and so back to Preston.

Day before the day before Christmas day.

B&Q: Tyre stuff - none, Taps - numerous, Chest of drawers - 2 would do.
Homebase: Tyre stuff - none, Chest of drawers - none to suit.
Poachers for lunch. Salmon nice but Fish & Chips rather greasy.

Skype/email

Am finding that postings are being received as emails. I suspect that in Settings I have called for an email to be sent to confirm all postings. Shall have to check. No, I don't see such an entry so have yet to find why postings appear in my email.

Harry/Southport

Harry seems to have achieved lengthy connections to broadband, at last. It has come about by Rudolph having deleted the BT broadband.

Connection of my laptop, at Southport, to Skype between our computers failed because calling from the laptop to Harry gave an error, probably it said, due to blocking by a Firewire setting. Even after closing my ZoneAlarm and Harry's Panda the problem persisted. And so the trial to get Skype to play through Harry's loudspeakers instead of the handset could not be carried out. However, the Skype trial message does now play through the speakers. This needed altering the settings to have the "audio out" come through the MS Default (?) but leaving the "audio in" set to handset(?)

Harry wants to know how to send photos that have come through as emails, to his Kodak program, and then print them. He seemed interested in my suggestion that he starts a blog.

DT Computer work.

R&Y got my computer back to a proper opening screen. He advised that I don't need to load Demon, because I'm using a router; it's one or the other.

Roger also loaded Outlook Express but was unable to run it. Need to contact Demon.

Accessing the net is ok but cannot yet access Cahoot for Jean (have to tel 0870-6000-655.

Networking: After running the Network wizard I was ok in sharing files between the comps.

Loading VISTA is one of the urgent jobs to be investigated.

Editing layout

Unable to restore elements back from left edge to right edge.

Vista, Intellect comp & Puncture

Have got the Vista files downloaded so will it run? I don't know because a power cut interrupted the re-boot and caused the Intellect computer to crash. Looks as though I'll be visiting Stockport tomorrow to get Intellect Computer's help.

Have checked Richard's rear tyre for a puncture, without success. Re-fitted it and await a check to see if it has stayed up.

Xmas Cards, VISTA & Word 2007.

1. Xmas cards. Ran the Holidays and Events prog. Cards need thin card, not paper. Some stocks, e.g. the reverse of a glossy photo paper, cause an impossible drying time.
2. VISTA. Ordered from Warez having been given the ok re suitability of my LT. I must run the test on the DT because that is where I'd expect to load it.
3. Word 2007. Made some transfers between LT and DT. The conversion prog has already been installed on the LT. It appeared that either could be read on either. Think this means that I could transfer the whole lot to Word 2007.

Jean

Looks as though Jean now has a Blog. Has yet to use.

Blogger

ZoneAlarm definitely causes problems with Blogger.

Plan to use the following Labels.
Finance
Blog

Reconciliations

Like to think that as well as my usual Statement-CB reconciliation, that the ammended Cashflow SS will also be useful.

Hard to finish on time.

Struggling today to get YBS sorted along with reconciliations of Statement to both Cq Book and Cashflow.

Am allowing Jean to take me to lunch, on way to visit Gwladys in Chorley hospital.
Went to Sainsbury's for lunch and each enjoyed a magnificent bowl of soup.

Gwladys in less pain.

On return we visited a couple of properties that had been sold within the last few months - just to help me estimate current value of ours.

Jean discovered a website that explained some of the financial aspects of long-term care, including sale of the house. See this link to the site: -
http://england.shelter.org.uk/advice/advice-7095.cfm