The next person who laughingly tells me “Oh, I don’t understand any of that computer stuff, I just let my (pre)teenage kid sort it out. They know so much more about it than we do, don’t they? It’s all just natural to them” may well get punched in the teeth.
Quite probably the best email I’ll receive all week. A Nony Mouse person needed to send us in a laptop, and proceeded to have a little email conversation with themselves whilst writing to me. It went like this:
“Hi. I’ve got the laptop, but I haven’t got a box or anything.
Is it OK to just send it in the laptop bag?
Or does it need more packing than that?
I guess it ought to go in a box, shouldn’t it?
Yeah, it needs a box. OK, I’ve answered my own question …”
The best bit is that the person who sent it is a) really nice and b) generally quite bright about this kind of thing. Which meant it tipped over the edge from desk-banging incredulity that someone would even contemplate couriering a laptop in just a weedy laptop bag[1] into warm hilarity at the unfolding thought process. Marvellous. A Nony Mouse client, you made my day :o)
[1] Given that we’ve received them in nothing more than a jiffy bag before, I suppose these things shouldn’t still surprise me, but hey, every day is a voyage of discovery …
The second week of our “Couch to 5k” plan should have ended on Saturday, but after a late night (early morning?) out with Street Pastors, followed by an early get-up to take one of the cats to the vet, Saturday turned into a bit of a wipe out.
So, Sunday morning it was up bright and breezy, walk down to church, mostly stay awake through the service, come home, collect SWMBO and off out to do our final session. It was a beautiful day, and were it not for the wheezing and “Dear God please let it STOP” aspects of the whole running thing, a delightful time to be out and about. Even if I did suddenly realise that the first half of our chosen route is uphill all the way. What was I thinking?
Still, we finished on a high note, having finally broken a total distance of two miles and done the whole thing at our fastest pace yet. I don’t expect this to continue tomorrow when we start Week 3, however …
Well, we’ve just completed the third session of week 1 (delayed due to having to work yesterday). Rather surprisingly, it’s kind of fun, although I’m still a little alarmed that at some point we’re going to have to run all the time and not break it up with bits of walking. But we shall see.
From now on I shall endeavour to post a weekly update, just to keep me honest. For anyone who’s interested in the slob-to-slightly-less-slob programme we’re following, it’s this one from coolrunning.com – so far it’s proving distressingly feasible, so much so that I’m having to resist the temptation to do more than it says. Which it tells you not to. So I’m being good and complying. For now.
Well, what do you know. This evening I have learnt a number of things.