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Rich Leyshon24-Dec-20 0:36
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I have always had this strange notion, or perhaps "feeling" is a better word that Christmas Eve should be a good day. A day where hopefully, if you're lucky, all the shopping, present wrapping etc is done, you don't have to work (again, if you're lucky) and can relax doing "Christmassy" things and just maybe, start a little moderate drinking not too far after lunch.

My experience over many decades has proved this to be, in my case at least, a fallacy.

This year, I made the conscious decision I won't promise any elaborate dishes that will require most of the day to prepare only to result in ultimate disappointment. My only challenge would be to clone the other half's HDD onto SDD to quickly whack into place in her laptop on Christmas morning.

So, I briefed her, I would defrag, disc cleanup etc in advance at times to suit her. Then - make sure she has a copy of everything in say, her email, saved somewhere just in case. I would then do my thing and clone the drive on Christmas Eve.

So, ready to start. "Oh, hang on, I've got a few things I want to do on it first ..."

In the words of the old text based adventure games - time passes...

Right, so I can finally start. I think I'll use "belt & braces" and create a restore point just in case. No probs there.

Next, over to my PC to run SyncToy to backup all her files onto my machine. No, that won't work because, as usual, my computer can no longer get access to her laptop over the network. This is not unusual as virtually ever Windows update breaks it.

I check the usual causes in Network and Sharing and nothing looks amiss there. It tells me I don't have permission, so I check the Sharing and Permissions on her machine and yes, I do have permission.

Life's too short for this on Christmas Eve. So, I go to plan B. This failure almost always only happens in one direction i.e. my machine can't access hers, but hers can normally access mine. And it does. So, I download Sync Toy to her machine and backup all her files to mine.

Install True Image - or at least try to. At this point Bit Defender wakes up and starts chewing up disc and CPU like it's having a good old Christmas gorge on a Yule Log. Still, eventually it is satisfied and gives up and I get the cloning underway. Obviously this will result in some sort of disaster later at around the 99% - 100% mark but for now at least, life should be pleasant.

"There's something wrong with the garage door." I hear.

Handle hanging out one side, refusing to open from the outside, she tells me. "If you shut it you'll have to go to the other (vehicle) door to open it from the inside."

Now, in true festive fashion, the temperature has plummeted. I look at the car thermometer which tells me it's a balmy 5 degrees. This I think is the equivalent of a man being asked "Does my bum look big in this?" It has given the "correct" answer, rather than the "true" one. I suspect rather colder. Now, I know this figure constitutes sunbathing weather people such as temperature hardened Canadians but for us Brits, after a mild spell, it is a shock to the system.

So, cant get the lock off as my hands are very cold and the screws are thoroughly rusted in. Manage to get the inside part of the lock off and re-connect everything, in rather a bodged fashion but at least the door has a handle both sides and can be opened and shut.

I retreat indoors for a chance to get warm but that plan has been quashed too. Having recently had some decorating finished, herself now decides the house stinks of paint and has helpfully opened all the doors. So I am now sitting at my PC, still with my coat on, wondering what festive joys are still awaiting me on this relaxing, pleasant day.

Ho ho elephanting ho!
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