AUTHOR: Francesca Gray TITLE: Its better to be untidy because.... DATE: 10:57 AM ----- BODY:

I'm back, again. I think I should make a macro that types those two words each time I log on. This time my absence has been my computer's fault. I series of intermittent problems with the keyboard, printer and mouse/pen grew increasingly worse until computer became near enough unusable. I tried all sorts of things, removing peripherals and reloading software, rewinding to earlier 'save points' and so on and so on to no avail. I had just got to the point where I was beginning to worry that fixing things was going to cost me money when a chance remark by the guy I buy my computer consumables from gave me an idea. A couple of months ago I had one of my 're-arrange the furniture' fits. A big one as it involved turning my dining room into a lounge and visa versa. Of course this meant moving the computer too and I thought I would take the opportunity to tidy up the birds nest of cables that clutters up the rear of my desk. My ex husband set up the computer for me in its new home and set to work with a packet of cable ties to make things more organised. This is where the stray comment comes in. The ink cartridge guy asked me if I had changed anything in the last few weeks. Bingo! The tidying up of course! After a few minutes of pushing all the connections to make sure they were all secure and then setting to work on the cable ties with a pair of scissors everything is back to normal. It appears that my computer and I have a similar out look on life and tidiness is not part of it!

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