322 UPDATES

My computer is installing 322 updates. I can't do much until it has decided it's as up-to-date as is humanly possible, which is tricky for a machine. It is taking its own sweet time anyway.

Meanwhile, at lunch today, my Mum told me a story which made me laugh, and then made me realise that I haven't laughed in quite a while.

It seems a couple of American tourists were out hiking round the woods in Scotland, somewhere near Balmoral, when they bumped into a little old lady in a headscarf.

"Do you live round here?" they asked, in conversation.

"Yes I do," said she, with a smile.

"So, do you ever see the Queen?"

"Oh not really," said the lady, peering over her glasses, "But you should ask that chap over there," pointing to a burly security guard, "He sees her all the time."

322 is a lot of updates. It's now showing a failure message and is apparently 'reverting the changes'. So, a waste of time then, applying them in the first place.

I do wonder about the mysteries of these machines sometimes. There are so many complicated things that can go wrong, all at the same time with the same symptoms, it's a wonder anyone knows what to do to fix them. Or even use them, for that matter.

Someone ought to try writing that stuff down, I think, a kind of writer of technical information, or technical author, if you will.

Ask that chap over there. He does that kind of thing all the time.