Spot on . . .

Everybody is sick here, the 2 legs and the 2x4 paws. Dennis is lucky to be back only tomorrow !

Last night at 4:45, I heard a bark downstairs , it kind of woke me up half but I didn't want to get up and when Rhea was doing her best to get me out of bed, I told her to go back to sleep. But then, I suddenly realized, rushed out of bed and went downstairs to open the garden door to Bubbles. She calls when she is going to be sick and Rhea does her part too. They are really great for that.

So it's 4:50 and I am watching my Bubbles in the garden, when I suddenly notice I am only in my PJ's, barefoot in the kitchen and I am absolutely frozen. Too late. By the time I pick my coat and Dennis' slippers in the landing,  my nose is already runny and I am sneezing. Amazing how quickly it goes. Same story at 6 and at 6:30, for Bubbles and Rhea this time, but at least I made sure to wrap in my coat and wear Dennis' slippers immediately.

So Bubbles is sick from front and back, Rhea sick from the back and I got the cold of the century. Nice start of the day. I went to the park twice, wrapped up like never, -5 with an icy wind. I don't remember having been so cold during the winter.

I worked today but not as much as I would have liked, between the going downstairs to open the garden door to the girls and the blowing my nose the rest of the time.

I called my parents as usual at 6pm and when mum said " there is something strange on the computer ", I though " Oh No". She added that if I was busy I could help tomorrow, but I though I better do it now. Thanks God I can enter into their computer from mine, but I sometimes face 2 problems, I have an English Mac, they have a French Windows, so often the terminology is a bit tough.

Anyway, I could see the problem perfectly : The Google screen was sooooo big, that I only could see the GOO and add to scroll to the right to see the rest.
I asked my mum what she did to get that. I wonder why I ask, because they never do anything, LOL, they say they have a Murphy too. Well . . .

It wasn't going well with my repairing because I didn't have a clue what was going on and I was trying to search on Internet for ideas. We were already on the phone since 45 minutes and I couldn't hear myself thinking because my mum wanted to explain again and again why it wasn't her fault. I am sure you can see the picture.

To be honest I was kind of pretty depressed because I didn't know how to help them and time was really flowing. But then something happened that was absolutely in sync with Lynne's quotation for this week :

“ Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it”

I eventually found the problem. I didn't know but you can zoom on Internet, so to zoom back, they just had to do CTRL and - as many times as needed.

With TeamViewer, I get full control of their computer and their mouse, but obviously not of their keyboard. So It took a while for them to find CTRL, then I checked on a french keyboard image where the - sign was. In case you are interested, it's below the 6.

So I told my dad, Press CTRL, keep it on and then press -
. . . Big silence . . .  then a scream from both of them: " Yeah, it works, Google is back to normal ".
Me, starting to breath again. Then the Java update was blinking but my mum was thinking it's a hacker and she didn't want to touch it, so I decided to install for her. Downloading time 30 minutes. . .  Sigh . . . OK.

So we started talking about something else, what they did during the day, how the weather was and they had news from my brother . . . when suddenly I hear my Dad shouting :
" Can I remove it ? "
Me, thinking noooo, don't touch anything anymore: " Remove what, Dad ? "
Dad : " Remove my finger from CTRL ? "
Me : " ?????????????   . . . Yes, of course ".

And that's when I had this bliss moment, because at least 20 minutes had passed by and he still had his finger on CTRL. It was absolutely hilarious, though I didn't want them to hear I was laughing but it made me realize that my work didn't matter, I needed to concentrate on them.
We continued chatting whilst Java was downloading and we managed to kill the battery of one of my phones ( 1 hour and 23 minutes is all what it can take) so I had to call them back with another one ( thank God we don't pay phone calls to France). We talked another 20 minutes and by the time we hung up, I actually felt I had a great break from my work and my mood was much better.

Somehow a lot of the Lucky Snapping challenges be they from others or from me, manage to be spot on the week they need to be for me to find examples.

Take care everybody, xxx