Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

Jaye’s Week Two

Last week began well as if confirming that the week before wasn’t a fluke. I was progressing with the writing and looking forward to a family day midweek.

My head was still coming up with these interesting ideas and plans for future progress, so all was well in my world.

At least, I thought it was.

The first hiccup was the work in progress. Somehow, a chapter had become a sticky mess. I had completely lost track of who had done what and with whom. I wrestled with it for a while, then decided to put it away until a better time presented itself. Always the optimist, me.

Then the computer threw such a wobbly it was almost painful to watch. We are protected by a company called ESET, and I call him the Tin Man due to their logo. We have been with them for years, and I trust him to remove anything nasty. So, when they halted the proceedings and said something was wrong, I was confused.com to put it mildly. They were in the nasty business, so how was I supposed to know what to do?

After a lot of toing and froing, it turned out something bad had snuck in, Something like fifteen-somethings. These would need cleaning. Enter visions of an old-fashioned scrubbing board covered in soapsuds!

To cut a very long story short, this cleaning took all day, and I still didn’t know how it had happened in the first place. When the dust had settled, I found out it had been caused by an update suggested by Google. Just goes to show that you can’t trust anyone, can you?

The following day was family day, where several members of our family and the new great-grandbaby arrived for a catch-up. I’m not sure about everyone else, but I had a lovely day. You can read the post here.

Thursday was a special day. Everything was working the way it should. Word announced an update, but everything looked the same to me, so I carried on regardless. I managed to catch up on several things on my to-do list and made progress on promotion work for several of our books. One of these days, I will be totally happy with how they are presented! (says she, hopefully!)

Friday was shopping day, and we had lunch in town. Absolutely freezing out there, so very glad to get home again.

I managed to sort out that sticky chapter in the afternoon, so one step closer to writing ‘The End.’

To finish this post, I must tell you about something strange that happened while texting son number one on Saturday. He had just written about his afternoon, and when I wanted to reply, something had already been written. It referred to the conversation but was badly written, with no punctuation or much sense. Number one son thought I had written it and was confused when I said I hadn’t.

It reminded me of those annoying party phone lines we used to have that drove everyone bonkers. This world is getting crazier by the minute, and I hope this doesn’t happen again.

Has this ever happened to anyone else?