Re: Monthly chat August 2016
@Rob, yes, getting out and living on your own is a good thing, I did it when I was nineteen. Ironically there's a bit of an issue currently since my parents (in particular my mum), would rather like my lady and I to move closer, but that probably isn't going to happen, though right now we're still in the process of waiting for something or other to turn up to determin where we actually are! going to live.
As regards the clay situation, again I'm most impressed at people who make stuf. I never had exactly that sort of manual dexterity or ability to make things myself. I do recall once at my nuts primary school we got a fairly whacky teacher who was bent on showing everyone the practicality of working with wood and everyone made a set of salad servers by gluing ply wood together which my mum actually still has, though being as I don't really eat salad and prefer veg cooked it was a bit superfluous to me .
Music school is crazier than usual since there is lots of music for me to learn, not a problem since I learn fast, but owing to sorting visas and huge amounts of other things my lady and I both just haven't had the occasion., though we have had a huge amount of congratulations on being married which is nice. ironically the first thing we've setup to do is a gorgious duette from the secret guarden musical (yes the one based on the 1906 Kids book), which is all about a man talking to the ghost of his dead wife and is pretty dam extreme! yes, just the thing after being married, thinking of your wife dying which is probably the worst thing I can imagine thus far so it should hit hard.
As to Windows, @Aaron, Beatstar is one example where save data is in the documents folder, however for a lot of other games save data and extra packs and stuff are in the program folders themselves, for example wh
en I get back to my flat I'll need to copy the sauvgard file from my xp laptop's crazy party install into the one on my desktop, and I'm not sure about file management in post xp windows.
Windows 7 I would consider, although there are things in windows 7 I still don't like and it's taken a bit of wangling to get my lady's win 7 machine to behave, particularly as regards thumbnails and windows explorer, (and the download's function in ie11 still seems weerd), however I don't want to be in the same fix compatibility wise in a few years, if I must have a version of windows I don't want, it might as well be the latest version of windows I don't want .
In particular I will really! miss a user friendly email program like outlook express. I've tried thunderbird and outlook, but both are a right royal pain interfa ce wise and lack the simplified structure of express with it's three tabs, storage system contacts list, both also, as seems to be a trend in modern windows all the eamils work entirely by auto complete rather than letting you actually scan information yourself. Indeed, I don't like microsoft's tendency to work by search boxes and most recommended this that and the other, what happened to organizing my own stuff? I do know there is a freeware version of outlook express which I might have a look at.
Ironically, my lady doesn't use any search functions of windows 7, she asked me to create desktop shortcuts to stuff like favourites, documents, folders she needs etc, effectively creating a start menu for her without using the actual start menu .
From what I've seen the interface for windows 10 is even more annoying in terms of explorer, an
d I don't think you can have lists either.
Still it's something we'll see and not an immediate problem, albeit if I hadn't been so busy getting married etc I'd probably have sorted such things out by now and have either a mac or a windows 10 machine.
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