26 December 2008

Boxing Day


The day after Christmas when we ( mostly in the Commonwealth) celebrate by having as a holiday. Named for when they used to give people gifts in boxes.

Report on Xmas Day - Great day and the weather was quite fine in the end. So much so that we ate outside; great meal (thanks Joe) and everybody pretty relaxed and happy. Quite a bit different for Sarah & Joe's German student Sophia. They open their presents the night before and of course it is winter in the North.

Other, mainly computer,matters: Raffle was about $5K down on last year- and I didn't win it!!.
Have been having problems with Internet Explorer so downloaded the Google browser Chrome which seems to be alright although the odd thing is it doesn't have a Home Page button automatically present, it has to be customised. Odd.
Don't know how it will all fare when we have to download some Windows updates as I/E doesn't seem to want to open. Also changed the ink in my Lexmark printer and it is having problems. Went out onto the net and it is a fault which Lexmark can't seem to fix. Will have to investigate further.
After the PC problems have decided to move everything as a backup to the Laptop but it has Roxio as its CD burner as opposed to Nero on the desktop. Can't see how to save the names of items burnt so I can put them in a Word document.