T-Bird Anni Rides Again

Well, not surprisingly Aprilia didn’t make it through the night at Nelly’s, she was home before 9pm though which is better than dragging me out of bed like last time!  I’m a bit at a loss for how to deal with all this really, she’s getting more "homesick" as time goes by, she’s had sleepovers in the past with my mum and dad and with Nelly quite successfully and last year’s pack holiday, as the youngest girl there, she settled to sleep every night and barely came near me at all.  Over the past year though she’s found it impossible to stay at Nelly’s (usually saying that it’s because Nelly doesn’t shut up at bed time but this time they never even got to bed, she just decided she couldn’t do it) and this year’s pack hol she was on the home sick list and was one of the hardest to settle every night, was the second most cuddle demanding child there and was generally quite unsettled despite me being there.

Ah well.  She’s feigned illness for most of today, being droopy and disinterested but not looking remotely ill.  I think she just wanted a totally "down time" sort of day, so I bobbed in and out, did loads of stuff in the garden, did housey stuff, finished listening to Ode Less Travelled (which is very good but should come with an X rating!!!) and moved onto the next bit of my course. 

Also battled with various bits of oddball technology.  You see, I have a very wonderful Palm LifeDrive, like a PDA but with more brains, a second hand mobile camera phone, a steam-powered Dell laptop with a broken CD drive but without in-built Wi-Fi or USB and a Vista PC. The Palm won’t dock with Vista, it’s obsolete and Palm aren’t planning on making a driver to allow Vista to play with it so I dock it to my laptop.  But really you should have an internet connection whilst docking the Palm so it can update but I can’t because I can either have the WiFi card in the slot or the USB card in the slot   I’m looking at getting a USB WiFi thingie so I can do 2 things at once!!!  And the second hand phone is an oddball too because it also being obsolete, it doesn’t have a Vista driver and I can’t download a driver to the laptop although if I can ever get the external CD drive to work I could install one.... meanwhile, I have 70ish pics on my camera phone… it won’t talk to the bluetooth on my Palm (known issue, resolved for later Palms  ) and doesn’t have a data card of any sort to save them to.  Sigh, life would be so easy if I had all new stuff, but really, I do love my Palm, there isn’t anything like it for anything other than very silly money, the laptop cost me nothing, it was a cast me down from a mate, the phone cost £5 several years ago and is perfectly servicable and the Vista PC was the OU provided one and some of the software on it will only work on Vista.  So I’m "stuck with it" really! 

Never mind!  In the grand scheme of things, it’s hardly a big problem if technology doesn’t play is it?? Life goes on as they say!