Good morning Mick and all GN'S from a wet and grey north yorkshire . Missed looking for the planetary line up last night and if it says like this today , wont get much chance to try again tonight! However they say we have until the weekend to see them so will try tomorrow.
Yesterday I tried to do various things to improve matters, but the day went from bad to worse. Frustrating, as couldnt get hold of people I needed to speak to. Went to a new class to try and sort out the laptop more and to fill in some digital skills holes, but it ended up with the lecturer wanting me to upgrade my laptop and when we attempted to do it, it then would not let me get onto the internet, and it was near the end of the class and so I had to put it in sleep mode as it wouldnt let me connect with the internet there. Was very worried as in particular I have a lot of photos which my husband had taken and do not yet know how to move things around and hoped I wouldnt lose them.
Called in at Upfront where one of our techy genius chaps was there fortunately and we got it sorted out to a certain extent, but I was so frustrated that I could have chucked it all through the window!! So basically made a lot of effort and the result of the day was nothing positive at all.
I was tempted not to go to the games night, I was so fed up with the day, but fortunately I had said that I would go to another player so do not like to go back on my word. So got myself all wrapped up and visible and set off on the yellow peril to join in. It was the best thing I could have done. There were not a lot of people there last night and they were happy to play a game that is new to me, and accept that I would be slower than they were in their turns.
They have various different games, some are very spatial in style, and others are quite complicated, which I can see once I have the basic idea are rather chess like. So you can have several different goals at the same time. To move your character to an advantageous spot, whilst collecting a variety of objects, which then allow you to buy other things or make other players have to pay you something. So it is really rather like that idea of patting your head whilst rubbing your stomach round and round. There is not one single goal and of course when you are up to date with the play then you are also looking at other players things and scheming how to spoil there luck whilst improving your own.
The great thing about it is , for me, that you have to concentrate on about 3 or 4 different possibilities at once, and that meant no time to brood over the days events , concentrating on learning the basics and at the same time beginning to understand possible strategies for the future.
They meet up every tuesday evening, and play various different games according to how many people there are there and what they want to play, so there is going to be quite a lot for me to learn. It is also very nice to meet a group of people doing something with their brains and just for a couple of hours politics and the doom and gloom of situations can be put aside. It was very cold on the way back but was in a much better mental place and see that I really do need to get out and meet people. When you are on your own things can just get on top of y ou.
So this morning I have already sorted through all the bed linen, as I had double and single sheets and duvet covers etc. So have sorted through them and put the stuff I am not using at the moment elsewhere and so the things that I need are now easily accessible. Then despite the rain , I have put the washer on and that is rumbling along, and if it clears up I might get it out to dry, but if not it will have to go on the clothes horse to dry.
Nothing you could call exciting or brilliant, but just getting anything done is worthwhile and I want to try and get a bit straighter, as next week I go for a measuring about the cataracts and whenever I actually get the operation, will have to think about putting drops in and what I can and cant do .
How cheering to think it is March next week. My mother used to say stop wishing your life away, but really february has had nothing to recommend it this year for me! My friend of 77 years has her birthday in March and we have usually met for lunch somewhere, but think it may have to be postponed this year, as I cant drive and have no dates for operation or hospital appointments so cant organise anything for the moment.
Just had a Victor Meldrew moment, as a man with a ladder has just walked past the window, and I think it is the window cleaner , but cant believe he is going to attempt to clean windows in the rain!!
Hope you are feeling a little better today Marydoll and that you get another call from the hospital. Bellasnana, hope you ar also feeling a little better in yourself. Wishing everyone something cheering for today and I think in horrible weather a toasted teacake with some decent coffee is definitely a mood raiser to me! Best wishes for a good day everyone
. He’s 6ft 4 and ex-Grenadier Guard!