It’s a question of where to start today (Tuesday), we’ve packed so much into a couple of days.
Easter Sunday lunch with the boys, great fun, great food, sitting on the terrace in the sun, then later around the kitchen table, listening to music, chatting, playing games – just like Christmas. And then Bank Holiday Monday dawning fresh and clear, but also with no commitments for the day, nothing to do and nowhere to go.
So I did some work in the morning and then had a computer crash. Strange, on a new machine, but I reckon it’s because I actually paid for the real operating system and it’s done via that online thing properly, so it doesn’t work very well. It suddenly stopped doing anything and then, after a few minutes, told me in a rather embarrassed voice, such as that of a teacher handing back a small child to its parents: ‘Microsoft has encountered a little problem,’ to which I answered, ‘You’re telling me.’ ‘We are working on finding an answer.’ ‘Well, get a move on.’ ‘We are very sorry but your PC needs to restart.’ ‘As long as the auto save was working.’ A restart later and it was back to normal but auto save hadn’t saved all the work. But the thing is, it hadn’t just not saved it at the time of the crash, it apparently had stopped working sometime before and not just the auto save as one file that I definitely had saved, was not there either; like it hadn’t registered my typing for a good hour before it encountered its ‘little problem.’ So that’s a few thousand words that the world shall never read.
I am hoping that was a one off glitch and it won’t happen again. Last time I had to ring them about a minor issue they wanted to charge me €85 Euros for a kind of call out fee – when it was me calling them, and after I’d paid so much for the programmes in the first place. I told them I thought that was a bit steep, I’d sort it out myself and they could RAM it in their oscillator.
Meanwhile, back here on sunny Sunday on Symi… After lunch we went for a walk up to Profitas Ilias, as Neil hadn’t walked up that way before. A climb up through the village to the road, and then down the cemetery, and then up the hillside a short way to the church, into and around two of the chapels, the third was locked, and then a stroll back through the quarry to the main road and down. En route, phoning Jenine to see where she and the boys were and then meeting up in the square for a glass in the afternoon sun.
And then, later, watching the boat come and go taking friends back to the UK and France, and then later still, greeting more friends who are back for a couple of weeks, also from France funnily enough, before putting on a film and falling straight to sleep. Waking up to go to bed, to be woken by the cat coming in, falling asleep, dreaming of going to work in an office, waking up to feed that cat on demand at 3.30, falling asleep, dreaming of running this very busy office, waking up to put the ear plugs in, falling asleep, dreaming of handling a crisis in this very busy office, waking up to get to work. Writing this in a hurry.
So a great Easter weekend, now done and dusted and everyone is ready to start the season. Looking forward to a great 2015; the summer starts here!
