I'm not addicted ! I just cant stop doing it !

Stingo you were right this site is just so addictive do any of you others get in trouble with your better halves for always being on the computer Mr sponge threatened to turn computer into baked bean can or something if I dont get off and come to bed he goes to bed early and I cant sleep, he calls me the Bat in the Belfry as the computer is upstairs and the bedroom downstairs(cos I'm up all night not cos I'm batty LOL) you know he doesn't moan if I sit and watch tv though weird man but being new to this computing lark I cant believe what you can see do and learn and converse with its just like gardening I wish I had taken it up sooner never mind off to bed before I'm divorced see you all tomorrow. God bless, sleep tight, mind bed bugs dont bite x

 

Oh dear, Garden Sponge - you've got the bug rather badly! :eek: Hope you don't get a lap-top and take it to bed with you as the next step - then you know it's terminal...... :rolleyes:

 

Hi, Garden sponge. In a lot of our cases, our other halves think we are mad spending so time time here, both male and female, I might add!

Like you, I'd rather be on here than watching mindless TV programmes!

 

Hi GS
My other half is always complaining too! "What do you DO on there" he says but when I tell him to come and have a look he doesn't want to know (I'm glad to say :D ). He's just not interested in technical things and has only just learned how to use the remote on the hifi that we've had for 10 or 12 years :rolleyes: He would much rather spend lots of time in the garden - which is good because somebody has to do it!

GC takes up a lot of my time and I also run my own website so spend lots of time on that, and of course, one has to google now and again to find information or just to see what's on ebay.
As you say LoL, mostly a lot of rubbish on TV at the moment- much more interesting on here isn't it?

 

Hi GS,

I think the other half complaing is how it is, mine is no exception.

Strange that she will sit at her computer all weekend playing cards ( given half a chance ) whereas I sneak on for an hour or so, have a larf and learn a bit too, and where possible, maybe teach the "old guys" a thing or two !

Walk tall and take it on the chin. Nice to have you on board.

TTFN

 

It seems like only yesterday I became a member..18 months actually and I still can't keep away but I do have to ration my time here during the week so as not to neglect my dear Mrs Pal :rolleyes:

 

Is it really only 18 months Pal?
How time flies when one is having fun :D

Being retired I do have more spare time to play
computers than some who have to earn a living.

 

Likewise Pal.
Had the day off today so did the shopping and the ironing so I am in the inhouse advisor's good books but if I overstay my time here she will go on about being a computer widow. :D

 

I'm lucky that both Mr D and I have our own lap-tops, and wireless network connection, so I can be on here while he's setting up his blog about his Big Walk (Dover to Cape Wrath, using only recognised long-distance paths.......) for April - May next year. So he can't complain about the amount of time I spend on here...... :D

 

do what my other half has done she complained enough so i bought her alap top (note book) so she can do her stuff and i can do mine on the main pc but yes these forums are adictive never been so late to get my bed in all my life

 

I didn't know you were networked as well, Dendro.

I am a computer widow, I was in working days and I still am now ... thing don't change (he was up at 3am to do something on his) so complaints really can't be made! :D

In saying this, he thinks we are all mad that we speak to people "we don't know" ... I was in Human Resources for years ... makes sense to me ... :D :D :D

 

Good evening my little "Til of the hun" hope you are well tonight..

I have a wirless laptop so I can sit beside Mrs roders and keep one eye on Corrie......It was a prerequisit when she bought me the kit,that I didn't hide away in the bedroom and this works just fine for us..

 

Hide away in the bedroom???? Interesting!

What, YOU keep one eye on Corrie ... :eek:

We both have full-sized computers (is that what you call them?) so we are in different rooms. Have to e-mail each other to speak ... it is only a two-bedroom cottage, not a massive villa! :D

 

We yell out to each other, LoL - and we've got quite a lot of space to cover...... I often have the lap-top downstairs after dinner in the evenings, but the battery gets low, and Charlie frequently adds to the general hilarity by trying (and succeeding for the most part) to get on my lap while I'm typing..... So I mostly sit up on the minstrel's gallery where I'm plugged into the mains, and no dogs all over the place! :D

Mr D used to have his one set-up in the dining room, directly below the gallery, so we were in the same room, more or less. That was quite handy.... but now he has it set up in the window alcove of our bedroom, which is better for when we want to use the dining table!

We have a handy PC specialist who set up our network, Plant with a Pickaxe! That's his real job - he just comes out to work with me to keep himself fit, to help me, and to earn a bit....