We are
going to attempt Mass this morning, for the first time since December 23. We
all stayed on to lunch in Inverary that day, and have since wondered if that
was the point at which the Dread Lurgy joined the party.
We had a
reasonably successful day with the Surface yesterday, but it’s tough going, and
I have made a rod for my own back. I need some time with it on my own, to try
to solve various problems – and I will need to sit beside my husband for quite
a while as he gets used to Microsoft Word and screen-touching. I’m not very
fluent in Word myself. I deeply lament the demise of the instruction manual, a
form of literature I once much enjoyed.
And I must
get the Income Tax done: that's not optional.
But we’ve
set the Surface up, and gone on-line, and figured out how to import files
through the famous USB port. It couldn’t “see” our old detachable disk drive,
but it can read a memory stick. I hope we will be able to access Dropbox, up
there in the Cloud, where most of my husband’s work already resides. An
initial attempt at that failed.
My husband
thinks he wants to try using a virtual keyboard instead of the nifty slimline
physical one with which the machine comes provided. I googled that question
last night and think I learned that there is a virtual keyboard, but where? The Microsoft website denied all knowledge of the phrase. It occurred to
me during the watches of the night that probably all we need to do is detach
the physical one.
One of the things I look forward to my husband learning, is how slow and frustrating web searches can prove. He won't like it.
He also
wants the screen to be less bright.
Knitting
Little to
report. The sleeve progresses nicely. I have ordered longer Knit Pro needles
for the delicious moment fast approaching when sleeves and body join.
Comments
Jean from Cornwall, thank
you very much for the rhyme about Candlemas (which =’s, of course, the Feast of
the Purification), and Mary Lou for reminding me that it’s the day when throats
are blessed. Around here, it’s more or less the moment when one can see and
feel the returning light, and a highly appropriate one, therefore, for
calculating whether spring might be ready to settle down and stay.
Check out the laser virtual keyboard on thinkgeek.com. I have no idea if it works as well as it claims but it looks very cool!
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I found the iMac for Dummies very useful when I had to learn about my computer unaided.
I suspect that you're right about the source of your infection. Handwashing is not as universal as it once was.
to get to the virtual keyboard touch the tile for the desktop. then in the lower right corner you will see an icon that looks a little bit like a keyboard-touch it.
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turning the brightness down touch the seetings button touch the screen button and set
ReplyDeletealso I did a little research- all documents are automatically saved to skydrive. There is a dropbox app in the windows store. I don't know if it what you need
ReplyDeleteTo revisit the throat blessing - we must not forget to give credit to St. Blaise, who miraculously cured someone choking on a fish bone! Perhaps his feastday is coincidental to the Feast of the Purification? (O where is my grade school missal with the list of Saints' Days when I need it?)
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