Welcome to my feature Chuckles Weekend Roundup where I will be looking at what books I've received, anything interesting I've done or bought or watched and other random stuff. I'll be taking a look back at what happened in my blogging world too, sort of like The Sunday Post that some of you do!
Please note that I'll be visiting your STS/SP as normal, but I don't follow or leave comments on blogs run by Google Plus, or DISQUS as I refuse to join something just to leave comments, and I won't allow DISQUS to follow new people, update my profile or post tweets 'on my behalf'. I am the only one who does that on my social media! I won't comment on any blog that makes me sign in using another account. Sometimes, I have problems leaving messages on blogs hosted by Wordpress-they try to block me because I deleted my account with them but I will persevere as it only happens the odd time!
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This has been a bit of a frustrating week involving the computer. I had to replace Windows 10 for a newer version of it because support for the older version is ending. As always happens with Windows, the upload goes wrong and parts can't be upgraded. And what is uploaded reacts badly to my computer security and scrambles everything, causing long delays in uploading or changing pages and sites, non stop screen freezing, various add ons not working and so on. I'm sick of Windows I really am. I never had these issues with the XP version! After working on it for three days and adjusting EVERYTHING, it seems to be more or less working, at least for now so I can finally get back to my blog, but of course I'm now a week behind on everything so catchup might go on into next week for blog visits and comments.
The heat has been miserable for both of us, causing sleepless nights, slothyness and general grumpyness. I treated myself to more Paddington books (for younger kids!) which I really enjoyed-full colour illustrations of that cute bear! I read 23 books this week but of course my TBR didn't go down at all due to me buying them all this week too! They were cheap and fun so I'm ok with that! As an added birthday extra my dad surprised me with a set of dinosaur coins which I LOVE! See Dog Days post coming this weekend. I vegged out on Corrie re-runs and junk food which made it a decent week.
BOOKS IN:
Chuckles Blogging World
Way behind thanks to Windows who have just informed me that they want to try again with the upload. I'm tempted to ignore it and say no for a while at least so I can get on with stuff without more chaos!
Book Reviews
Chuckles Mini Review Catchup
Michael McBride-Snowblind 1 & 2
Regular Posts
Chuckles Friday Reading Roundup
Around The Blogs With Chuckles
Top Ten Tuesday
Discussion Posts
Dog Days Of Summer #11
Reading Challenges
Tackling The TBR
Films & TV & Music
I watched the older version of Bake Off The Professionals which was called Creme de la Creme. It was ok. Watched series one of that and series two of Bake Off The Professionals. Caught up with October 2013 of Coronation Street which was fun to watch again. Am I the only one on David's side there??? I hate Nick!!! Watched a few Harry Potter films and the director's cut of Alien again. TV wise I'm avoiding the news which is good for my mental health!
Book Tags/Blog Awards
none this week
The Week Ahead
I'm still working on getting rid of files I don't need and getting stuff I recorded onto disk to watch this winter. It's a task that could take months looking at it. Ugh! I have the usual exciting housework to do as well. On the fun side, I hope to fit in a mixture of reading and TV this week. I'm waiting on a couple more Paddington books that I hunted down online but I want to concentrate on horror and Enid Blyton to start the week. I'm beginning a new Enid Blyton series-The Adventure series.
Sorry about the computer problems. My computer is so old that updates usually mess up something. It’s been running a lot slower since the last update, and sometime last year, an update messed up the sound settings. There’s no way to fix them, so I have to live with terrible sound quality when I watch YouTube. I hope the weather cools down for you!
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Computers are just so frustrating that they make you want to scream! But once you've had one, it's hard to imagine going back to not having one! I remember the horrors of the dial up connection that never seemed to work!
DeleteSometimes I really hate computers!
ReplyDeleteThey do drive me round the bend at times!
DeleteI'm glad things are sorting out for you and tell Dad I said he's such a great Dad!
ReplyDeleteI'm very lucky to have him and thankfully we don't argue too much! I used to love the bedtime stories when he'd read me The Hobbit and LOTR!
DeleteI hate Windows 10, there was nothing wrong with Windows 95! I can still remember using Windows 3.1 many years ago. I know my dad has had problems with his pc, these things are never straightforward are they.
ReplyDeleteI liked Windows 95 and Windows XP but I'm no fan of Windows 10 and the stupid updates that make your computer go all mental for days! I hate the unwanted crap like Cortana (which I finally was able to disable this week!)and all the things like X Box bars that you can't delete!!!
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