My laptop, which is over nine years old, has been getting a bit tired. After much agonising, I finally bought a new computer, and it was delivered a few days ago. I should add that the DPD delivery man dumped it on the doorstep, clearly labelled HP, rang the bell without checking that anyone was home, and buggered off. Well, it wasn’t nicked, but proved incapable of communicating with the monitor that I’d hoped to use. So, back to Amazon to choose a new monitor. It was supposed to arrive today, but the same DPD driver brought someone else’s large bale of kitchen paper rolls, marked my order as delivered even though I’d told him to take it away, and once again, buggered off.
After about an hour on the phone, first to DPD, who bumped me on to Amazon and then to the latter, I gave up and went to a local Curry’s and bought a less expensive product, which works well enough. I’ll return to the charge two days hence, before which Amazon declines to assist.
Meanwhile, having moved the laptop upstairs, I find that it has defaulted to that abomination, the AZERTY keyboard. Given that I’d bought it with the Swiss French QWERTZ, this is a puzzle. I shall ask the clever guys at the u3a computer group tomorrow. I’m getting a bit old for this shit: is it any wonder I drink?
