It all started when we couldnt find anything decent to do on a weekend..now, of course, there are a plethora of sites to keep you informed..back back in the heyday, not a lot at all. Especially locally. After all, living in the Cleveland/Alex Hills area, who really wants to travel back home from the city via translink..3/4 hour or thereabouts, depends on the wierdos..to have tea, zap back to the station, and spend another hour and a half that night, getting to and from an Happening in the city. If its a fun thing, or a favourite artist or even a tribute band..we might make the sacrifice. Or, if the Honey wins a freeby, then we might sachay into town for that. sometimes, its a bring the camera and take notes affair, sort of like homework really, (and we thought those days were looong gone..).

Naow, the Billisaurus sometimes hijacks the Honey, and goes for a Sunday Drive. You know the routine, do a crawl along the highway or inner city streets, doing 5 or 10m kays under the limit, holding everyone else on the road up, and incurring wrath in the process. Well, thats not us..oh, especially with white hair, glasses..have to be thick glasses, and head tilted back in order to see the road, on account of having the wrong specs on. As aforesaid, thats not us. White hair..maybe. Thick specs..uh uh.
In the West, this selfsame Billisaurus was driving a gas guzzler, and consequently was often seen on the road, doing his 80 kays, in a 100 area. Of course, living locally and being fairly well known into the bargain, we tend to try not to aggrevate, unless its a Wally who wants to get really close to the Sishongke sticker on the back bumper bar. Thats different..we go slower and slower until he..usually but not always, pulls back some. Normally, I’d wait for 3-5 cars or so behind, before pulling over to let them pass..if I was feeling generous that is.

So we go for a drive, and invariably, along the way, we spot a Something of interest. Nowadays, we have the latest all singing, all dancing, Red Ippy. And its not too bad at the sound/videos, either. Those days, though, it was a blue ippy. Ipad mini for the technically inclined. I know you’re out there somewhere…A bit on the slow side, reasonable for taking pictures..okay okay, a LOT on the slow side 🙂 and the Billisaurus..if he remembered, or was remembered, brought his Digital Camera along, and Pictures Were Taken. Lots on occasion. The honeybun saw whereby Weekend Notes website was looking for budding reporters, and decided to make enquirys. The rest is history..well, a few more stories to go..anuvver 🙂 I did say living with a weekend notser didnt I?
So, the honeybun has had her fair..or maybe more than her fair..share of computer screens. Tends to get aggrevated when Things Don’t Go right. That used to happen fairly frequently. Most of the time I ..ahem..could fix the problem..with blue ippy it usually entailled getting onto an apple wise person site via the internet. After a while, I started to get a bit more canny. Suggest things like taking it to the big computer, where the only thing apple was itunes, and settings were easy to discover and play with. I am sure that the weekend notes editors had a permant red hue/colouring covering their collective ears..not that I was allowed to point a few home truths out to that..esteemed crowd.

Taking it to the big computer worked fairly well..for the most part. The honeybun tends to take notes via the red ippy, and getting them elsewhere was a real pain..must be a dozen things that the ipad lot throw at you when you touch the screen, and sometimes its got a different name..sigh. Water off a ducks back nowadays, ..there is a god. Sending yourself an email..who’d have thought it?
Then windows 10 came in. The honeybun, in her wisdom, said yes to an upgrade. Seeing it was only going to be free for a wee whiles to come, and the Billisaurus was fairly confident about windows 10, ‘cos he was a windows 10 insider, and had been test driving it on a recovered ancient computer for..like forever.

SIGH

Doesnt actually mean anything when the chips were down. That button used to do that..suddenly it trashes the whole thing, and ..not a happy vegemite.
We found the history button…IF we got to it in time, and didnt have an overly krabby honeybun, who had done it twice and was on it for the third time. I mean..if you do the same thing twice, surely it would do the same thing over and over again..Done that myself hey. Like watching a movie a few times, hoping that the ending would change. There actually was a horse racing LP, and its ending would change..different winners they tell me..
I was told ..quite a few times actually..that windows 10 didnt have a patch on ..windows 7, the previous Operating System on the big computer. More ram..but you couldnt put enough ram on to make much of a difference. Sadly. Now, the ancient computer and the..big computer used to live side by side at the Tanderra st address. The Billisaurus got crabby at the honeybun using her mobile blue ippy internet ..at home where a perfectly good internet was available for no extra cost. Eventually, I got a decent wifi up and running..even handles livestreaming foxtel on occasion..every monday lately.. The ancient resurrected computer got too slow, and the Billisaurus decided to let a few moths out, and dive into a newer computer..after surprising the honey with the latest ipad pro. now the old computer plays at windows insider next to the newest and bestest computer out. Its this one that I use to livestream Game of Thrones to the telly. goes well.
The old big computer sits down the back, on wifi, and I am informed that it handles internet videos quite well..

Then we decided to get into own website and blogging. We both used WordPress..herusuallygoodself on her blog, and my..heh..alwaysgoodself..on the website. Doing the weekend notes has come in handy, its sort of the same only different, and it makes it easier to put up photos etc. WordPress was so confusing for starters..the instructions werent much help at all. We got over it hey!
AS my honey says..how do people who have never done this before cope? Where are the instructions a girl could understand? I ended up sticking a windows 10 user manual on the..old big computer..but you never really run out of questions do you?!!!.My stock answer..ask Mr Google!..we don’t have a Mrs Google, on account of only a man would have done things in that way. Gets a tad tricky. After all, Mr Google only wants to tell you what Mr Google wants to tell you. You have to ask the right questions.

Eg try sourcing a video on anything but utube. You use google operators. Here we go site:vimeo.com space invaders ten pages of videos, and not one utube! Hooooey!!!!

techo…https://bynd.com/news-ideas/google-advanced-search-comprehensive-list-google-search-operators/
goodness..video space invaders-utube
you learn something every day hey.

We are off the track. Still, thats what lifes all about hey.