mintybloggydiarythingy 2.0

It would be untrue to say that the NEW PEECEE PROJECT has otherwise gone 'SMOOTHLY', but I have at least achieved some sort of success. So Far. I now have a working WINDOWS 11 platform, relatively free of bloatware and any Copiloted interference. Alongside that, I have a fully operational LINUX system running on an EXTERNAL USB DRIVE, thus being free of the kind of cockups that one can get when one tries to DUAL BOOT alongside Windoze on a SINGLE drive. Notoriously, whenever Windows receives a regular update, those dreadful M1©r0$o f T people will overwrite any changes you may have made to 'THEIR' operating system. This, as I already found, includes disabling your Linux's startup files, meaning that your second OS is no longer there as an option. Much better if the GRUB MENU is on a different drive altogether. As Django Bates once said, "YOU LIVE AND LEARN. APPARENTLY." I encountered a number of headaches before getting the LINUX to work at all. Plenty of...

Week from Monday 14th September 2026 - On Saturday, I left home for my HOZZY APPOINTMENT extra early, as I half expected the kind of omnibus delays I'd encountered earlier in the week. In the event, I did get there in PLENTY of time (I arrived at the obstacle just in time to watch the AIR AMBULANCE depart from the helipad for its journey back to Eastleigh). I got dealt with straight away though, and I relaxed UNDER THE DRIP while listening to the previous night's excellent performance of MAHLER #9 off of the Proms. I then spent the rest of the day either waiting FOR or waiting ON buses, hopping about the city. I had to find my way to CURRYS, out on the Ocean Retail Park where the airport once was, so that I could purchase that 'USB-C-to-USB-A-female-converter' that I need for my NEW LAPTOP PROJECT. That involved a slow held-up bus from the hospital to the city centre, a wait for the number nineteen out to the east of the island, a slow journey through traffic to OCEAN...