Nearly back to normal?

I had my ECG this morning. I also found out the results of my latest Cholesterol test. Remember, I was always about 4.2 until January of this year when I suddenly went up to 10.1. Panic! Various remedies  put into action and another test done about three weeks ago. Well, it's now down to 2.1 and I am ecstatic. I shall, of course, continue to use the fat free diet as my basic guideline but now I can indulge my taste for bacon, eggs and sausage again. At the same time, my pulse has also improved and now stands at 57 bpm which is very nearly back to my usual 62.

Two forward, one back.

And then forward again.

The updates didn't take anyway so I had to do them all over again. As an interesting aside, how many registry changes do you think it makes updating Win7 64 bit from new install to up to date.....................44290!

The touch screen works really well but now poses another problem, The cable can no longer provide enough power to drive both the monitor and touchscreen. I am now in the process of buying more bits in order to power the thing properly. In addition, cable went down on Friday and didn't come back permanently until Saturday evening.

And there's more!

Me 'an my big mouth. I spent a couple of hours this morning trying to persuade the remote monitor to work the way I wanted it to. No joy so I tried it on a shorter cable. That works fine so, it seems, the new Win7 specific drivers require more power to do their thing. Or, I have just thought, the new touchscreen driver is actually working now and obviously requires power to do its thing. Anyway, I have ordered a new power supply to drive the screen independently and that should solve that problem.
On another, but related, area Sal and I managed to get a lot of rubbish to the tip this afternoon with the option of more tomorrow or Monday.

Let joy be unconfined!

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Not only have I got the audio working correctly now, I also have the new Win7 touchscreen drivers installed, all Widows updates and I have installed Free AVG and all the updates for it. The windows updates were a bit of a problem as I didn't start them intentionally and there were 70 of them that insisted on running before the PC would shut down. As I was running on battery at the time and due back at my desk within five minutes, it was both a concern and embarrassing.

What makes you think there is a problem?

I went to see Occupational Health today. Yet another take on my health and completely different to what I have already heard. It's as I have said in the past, I feel very well, I have never had any pain and I enjoy leading a normal life. I occasionally have a glitch in my system, I have a minor one at the moment, but I always get things checked out and I let my family and colleagues know what is happening. Any problems so far have been rapidly fixed by the relevant medical persons and I trundle on in my own sweet way. On Saturday, I was told that 60 to 68 was a normal heart rate and today I have been informed that 50 to 100 is perfectly acceptable. Who do I believe? Who cares? I feel fine and my GP is organising some tests in the background to make sure I continue to feel fine.

On another note, why does Zemanta keep offering me American links and images that bear no relationship to my life or where I live. I must presume that it is an American company and, like a lot of Americans, the rest of us have no bearing in their world. Rant over.

I just love it when a plan comes together............

The A Team.

The carputer is a reality! The OS has picked up all of the drivers correctly, apart from the touchscreen one for the second monitor and I know why that is. The whole thing is now working very well apart from the audio output which isn't but appears to be a cable or monitor fault rather than software. In fact, more is now working correctly than ever before as I have the new GPS mouse running on Auto-Route 2010 and it's very, very good, certainly the most effective GPS I have ever used.

Why are computers such a pain?

I needed to do such a simple job, to install a new OS on the car computer. The reason was that the old drive had died due to a combination of very low temperatures and being shaken up whilst driving. So I bought a shiny new solid state drive and tried to run the install to it from a USB drive. Making the USB drive was fairly easy as Microsoft have produced a piece of software that automates the whole thing. So, yesterday, off I went to install to the new drive installed in the camper. Total failure. The complaint was that NTLDR was missing. As I was installing Win7 that doesn't use NTLDR, this was farcical. So today, I have been obliged to bring the drive to work, insert it into a laptop and run the install from a disc. I was impressed with the speed, about forty minutes from beginning to end including a full format on a 64GB drive, but regretted the necessity for it. I will re-build the carputer this evening and install the drivers and hardware again.