I had a week off from work and it was great. I was finally able to get many jobs around the house and garden done which I have been putting off for weeks. I put some 5% window tint on a few of the windows and what a difference it makes.

I got new security screens fitted to a few of the windows and got a new sliding door, which is bloody marvellous. I can now lie in my hammock with the door opened and the bugs or anyone else for that matter can’t come in.

I stumbled upon cheap velvet curtains at a place called “Silly Solly’s”, a bargain $5 shop. On Sunday, I went to visit Ann & Trevor and they were kind enough to take the curtains up for me so that I could hang them, and don’t they look good,…………the curtains that is J

In the garden, I picked up a quarter of a cube of crusher dust and a cube of mulch. The mulch was easy but the crusher dust was tough. The crusher dust was for the paving, which is still not finished but getting closer to completion. I have had quite the workout this week and I am sure I have lost a few kilos along the way. This is the way life was before I started this job thing and I must admit I could easily lapse back into this lifestyle; I just need a source of income or a lottery win…..not too much……

Being at home within my four garden walls was just brill……not having to go anywhere was just brill………….not having to work was just brill and not having to talk to the public was fuckin’ great!!

No agenda, no schedule, no problems. The only downside that I can see is when the summer weather kicks in and the temperature creeps towards 40c, but hopefully the downstairs area will be sufficient to repel the heat.

Got the old computer upgraded a little. New SSD and 2TB drive along with Windows 10. This is the first time since 1995 that I have bought a legit copy of Windows. Windows 95 came with the option of either 13 floppy discs or 1 CD Rom; I waited for the CD Rom. Mind you I still have a set of Win 3.1 floppy discs, which might be worth a few bob one day.

So the old computer is running a lot better I may add. The SSD makes such a difference as it only holds the operating system and everything else is on the new 2TB drive. But I think I’ll end up upgrading the processor and motherboard soon too. I’ll use it for a few weeks and see how it goes, but it is certainly better than before.

The old PC is still running a dodgy copy of Win 10, so I’ll have to try the new product key to see if it will accept it and activate it, if not no drama I’ll format it and do a clean install. However, before I do that I will have to back up the drives as they have a shed load of info on them.

I am going to use the old pc for the Torrents and stuff because if any nasty bugs infect it, I will not have me other stuff compromised in any way and of course, it will begin to annoy me because it is now so much slower than the upgraded one. When I switch it on, I could go and make a coffee and drink it first before it is ready to work and the old IDE hard drive is slogging away making a hell of a racket, whereas the new SSD is almost silent and so much quicker.