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Wilmaaa!!


It's amazing what you find hiding on your desktop when you're looking for something else. I don't mean an actual desktop, I'm talking about the desktop on my laptop.

When I'm working on something, I always save it to my desktop so I can find it. It's a trait that really, really annoys the IT people I've worked with. You see, the more stuff you have on your desktop, the harder the computer has to work just to wake up in the mornings.

Somedays, I know just how it feels.

You see, every document and photo sitting on your desktop becomes part of the starting sequence or boot-up routine for your computer. The more it has to load, the longer it takes to start. Until, eventually, you've got time to go pop the kettle on, make a cup of tea, come back, drink it... and still have to wait ten minutes for the PC to wake up.

IT techies everywhere, fed up with solving problems caused by overloaded desktops are yelling, "Use Shortcuts!"

My desktop gets so overloaded that I hear them yell, "ALVIN!" whenever I call for help. Which brings me to the point of this post.

By the time I'd sifted though my assortment of icons, I'd forgotten what I was looking for. Totally distracted by all the overlooked goodies on there, I came across this picture.

A set of The Flintstones thimbles.


I've no idea how long it had been there, but thought it was quite fitting. As I don't have any Alvin or  Chipmunk thimbles...yet, The Flintstones are the next best thing.

With Fred normally in over his head his cry of, "WILMA!", is this show's equivalent to the long suffering Dave's forlorn rebuttal to the most troublesome of chipmunks.

Sitting by the side of it was this picture for some long forgotten blog that I never got around to writing.


Pewter teddies. Looking more than a little bit menacing. A bit like the IT guys who have to fix my tech gadgets. I'm sure that one second in from the right is shaking his fist at me...

OK! OK! From here on in, instead of saving to the desktop, I'll save it to my documents folder and then save a shortcut to the desktop.

Got to keep the IT Teddies happy!


Bye for now

Olly


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