The old man has just passed another milestone and is now is the fourth day of his 87th year. Having been fully occupied in keeping up some sort of mobility, blogging suffered in the priority race. In spite of that he decided to keep on trying to exercise his little grey cells by anticipating Microsoft's threat to stop servicing his beloved Windows XP computer. So I decided to scrap my wife's seldom used XP laptop for a new desktop with new bells and whistles powered by Windows 8. The result has been long hours, days and nights of stresses and strains just trying to think of how we could make this thing work gradually so the transition to the newer system would be easier for our slower learning curve.
The store's technical squad finally delivered the beast yesterday and tied it in with my XP desktop to some extent the way I wanted it to go. After many frustrations and the exhaustion of watching the geek get it set up and operating I finally retired through a mostly sleepless and uncomfortable night with visions of large icons and sugar plum fairies floating randomly across the lit up screen in front of me.
Still, in an hour or so this morning I am sort of getting the hang of things. So this is by way of a test issue of the Post, the first from Windows 8. The technical expert did get emails running on both computers last night. Now I must see if it still does this morning. The old man will try to be more forthcoming next time.
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