Yesterday was the day that Number One Son went back to Uni, so I took the day off and went with him on the train as far as London to see him onto his second train. I wanted to help him as he had a couple of heavy bags that would have been a struggle on his own. Once in Lancaster he would grab a taxi to the Uni.
The train journey nice and easy, so we chatted away and munched chocolate and drank Cherry Coke.
When we got to Euston, we had about 40 minutes to burn, so we grabbed a burger.
London has lots of pigeons. These pigeons often make their way into train stations.
I guess it is just a small trip from that to clearing up crumbs in Burger King...
On the way across the city I saw this place...
I spent a couple of minutes trying to work out how you pronounced it. Turkish or Moroccan maybe?
Gnnbarrr...
Nn-H-Bar...
Gun-Bar....
Then I looked up...
G.N.H. Bar. DOH!
When I got home, Mrs RC's laptop was insistant that we upgrade to Windows 8.1, so away we went.
It took a while to do, and during that time it displayed a lot of messages.
This is my favourite...
I guess they just ran out of explanations after a while!
After that, we looked at the PC that is going to be used in the dining room to play music. In a moment of rashness we decided that it would be fun to install the original Sims on it and have a communal game going too. So I installed it with all the expansions, ran it - worked fine. I quit and then tried to run it again. It gave an error message and then proceeded to uninstall itself!.
Bah!
Reloaded it all, and the same result, except that I stopped the uninstall this time.
A bit if fiddling with compatibility settings and a bit more swearing, and it was up and running! We like the original version, nice an quirky and great fun with all the add-ons.
And then it was time to go sleepy-byes...
8 comments:
I am always paranoid whenever we "upgrade" any of our systems. Spent a good hour last night syncing my iPad to the latest OS. I had been postponed that upgrade for a while. Now it adopted completely different settings and the screen layout is "different". They say that change is good, right? Or is that Resistance is Futile? Call me old fashioned, but I still like my older versions.
We hang back from upgrades to let others find the bugs. Both our my sons upgraded to 8.1 over the Christmas break with no real issues, so we felt safe.
Sounds like a nice trip getting your son back to the books. Explanation came too late... that will always be the Goonch Bar to me now.
Glad you got your son off to school again. I have Kacey here through the weekend and then she goes back. It's going to feel so quiet around here!
Mark just ordered a new desktop with Windows 8. None of our other devices have it, so it's been a challenge to figure things out. (Where's the #!@$%&*!!! START button?)
I hate installing updates! I love the message though.
Sorry, I figured out GNH bar right away. :)
I did the Windows 8.1 upgrade too. Took forEVER! Then I found a download that gives you a start button like Windows 7. Wouldn't recommend it. Been gettin' strange pop-ups ever since.
Anyway, how nice that you got to spend a little father/son time on the way back to London. Has the wind calmed down at all?
Abby - Goonch Bar sounds good to me!
Terri - There is no Start Button. A pain isn't it?
Riot Kitty - You must go to too many bars :-)
ShadowRun300 - Yes, best to watch out for things that give you pop ups, you don't know what else it has installed - such as a key tracker that might be recording everything you type, eg passwords, credit card numbers... Wind has gone!
hahaha, I always do stuff like that -- it's particularly troublesome with vanity license plates I think some day I may get into an accident and my excuse will be I was trying to figure out what the people in the car in front of us was trying to spell out on their plates :D
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