Sunday, Monday and Tuesday were all about IT. I’d finally given up on my Thinkpad T460s – neither touchpad nor trackpoint would work, though it did respond to an external mouse. It’s a known problem, and may be related to obscure driver issues. So, a Thinkpad L13 was bought (second-hand, of course). It was only available in a 128 memory size, sadly. A suitable M2 memory card was bought, and a clean install of Windows 11 was done. Then the current verion of laplink was bought, which transferred all data, but not actual programs. And then all relevant programs were dwnloaded and installed, which in general was fairly straightorward.
The exception was Musikcube, by far my favourite media player as it’s without bells and whistles (though sadly does not handle .flac files, so I have to covert them to .mp3 manually). Version 1 is massively obsolete (discontinued around 20 years ago), and version 2 is command line only. In the end, a trawl through the 2006 snapshots on the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive located an installer for it.
Also a major Windows 11 problem with the (obsolete) “Mycloud” external drives. Due to changes in security, the only machine able to access them was the old T460s. A 6Tb hard drive has been bought, and all the data is being transferred. I’ll need to think about backup for this at some point.
Wednesday was over to Green Mount, to re-light the Aga after it had been out for the chimney to be swept. I also checked the number of boxes and other stuff, so I could book a van to transport to Worcest – now booked for 11th September, the day after Sim’s stuff is taken to Oak Cottage.
The journey was horrible! Rail replacement buses from Shrub Hill to Moreton in Marsh, and when the bus was just about to set off it was announced that the connecting train had been cancelled, due to an overnight incident. 90 minutes pacing up and down at Moreton was not enjoyable. I cancelled the cab I’d booked, as due to the delay Jane was able to collect me from Hanborough.
Thursday was an admin day, as my back was very not up to doing anything (Wednesday had been over 13,000 steps, even after I’d removed spurious steps clocked up by the motion of buses and trains). Van booked for 11th as above, old guest bed put on freecycle, attempts to book van to take stuff into storage in Worcester for next week (awaiting confirmation), “confidential document desruction” sacks ordered for Green Mount, and the usual end-of-month financial stuff.
Today (Friday) has seen the discovery that the guest bed won’t fit down the stairs without complete disassembly, which was done. It barely fit in the back room to re-assemble (coffee table and piano stool put in kitchen, armchair moved to give more space), and then the headboard had to be removed again to get it to by the front door. Collection hopefully about 6pm today.
