h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Parenting is a form of certifiable insanity. It causes a person to do all sorts of things they otherwise would never dream of, and wonder why. The worst symptoms usually pass within 25 years or so, but no one is ever truly cured.

My day was a bit odd in that we finished a task that ought to have taken 5 days ... in 3. So today I am back to the usual grind. Oh whooo.

Drove into town to pick up the weeks mail and low and behold there was charlie brown waiting in my letterbox......insert dancing snoopy here....now I feel like a complete idiot because I never thought to put a christmas card in with teh swagman so I will post that separately though i am a little concerned on your envelope it says 94 West street and I have 96 written in my book You might want to go down to the house at 96 and let them know you have an aussie friend who goofed

You may have noticed in the front and centre'ish ... A little red-haired girl.

No worries about the error of the address. The name alone would have brought it to me, as we know the neighbors very well. I have spoken with the 'Mistress of the Manse', and she will be watching for it.

Okay now I am going to let off steam for the first time ever I opened my email box to find 10 emails unusual in itself for me what was worse was that as I clicked on the first one to open it up popped this horroble pornagraphic image that was just dissgusting...so as I looked at the rest of the headings and they all seemed to be the same I just started deleting them all however each one flashed a foul image before dissapearing into the ether....why am I gettting these and how do I stop them anybody know and why on earth do people want to trade in this muck I am so angry that someone has sent these with no regard for my feelings or rights rant rant rant vent vent vent

I have no answers, Lady. My hotmail account gets as few as 2 a day, and as many as a dozen a day. Fortunately that system recognizes a lot of key words as obviously bile and obscene stuff.

All I can suggest is that you see what options you have to "tag" stuff that seems wrong or from names that you obviously don't know, and send them to the JUNK or SPAM bin.

Or 'up' your junk mail filter to only allow mail from your 'Safe' list

And there are firewalls (I use ZoneAlarm, which has a free version for private individuals) and AVG Anti-virus stuff ... Also free, and good for many aspects. But it all depends on the user, how tight they want filters to be, who else goes on-line and allows sites in.

You kinda need a local -guru, who can sit at your PC and see what programs, connections and options you have.

Hello, guys,
Gmail seems to have a good filter, and all the funny stuff goes in the spam section, where I delete it before it can do me any harm...

Another decade on, our 30th anniversary was much quieter. Spent half of the day awaiting a delivery of vinyl siding and trims to put a new skin on the house. It does look much better.

Dinner out atleast? Nope, a bust. Our fave little family restaurant has changed ownership and will soon be just another sport bar. So we went to an Italian place that had been very good. Caesar salad was good, her lobster ravioli plate was far too sweet, mine was to be grilled shrimp, veal and chicken? All that I could taste was lemon - even the garlic mashed potatoes, and large hunks of carrots, all awash in lemon. Poohey ! She did like the complimentary chocolate ice cream cake.

Its annoying when things change

The biggest change since the original story is that my heart experienced a really bad wobble on the spring of 2014. Bad enough that I was taken out of work, or die fast. And precluding all but the very shortest air travels.

So to return to the UK and zone again will require a lot of 200 mile or so "hops".

Even meeting my 11 year old grand-daughter for the first time, or our brand new great-grand-daughter. Not happening.