Wine. The fluid variety. Known to New Barn as the bringer of 'Three Days of Torment' seems to be in plentiful supply. Last week I replaced the offside light cluster (you can't beat a good light cluster) on Cynthia's Mercedes A Class. She'd reversed into another car and smashed the lens. At this point I think I should explain something. I work for a company that sells aids to commercial vehicle operators, the kind of aids that help one reverse and manouever (never get that right) large vehicles correctly without causing hazards or accidents.
So I struggled all lunchtime with the offending wrecked part, fortunately the metalwork around the lens was cool, undamaged. The breaker supplied replacement went in OK. Job done.
So, yesterday Cynthia gave me a bottle of Domaine de Gagnebert which will be opened soon. I was rather grateful, being a wine ponce and all. Then, I get a call from my not quite sister in law who has a PC and is a bit fit! (just realised she has a link to this.....) she's having video camera to PC trouble. So, we connect her PC up and start converting video files from her Sony camcorder. F*ck me is complicated! As a Windoze XP user, she can't burn direct to DVD through the movie app. There were at least 20 opportunities to say 'BUY A MAC' and I took them all, throwing some extra hints in where I could. The upshot of this is that she brought a bottle of wine with her. Very nice it was too. But we still had to solve the issues, luckily I could google from my handy Mac and soon had a PC exe file on her laptop (the computer, nothing more!) to use to burn stuff. Then......having burned a disc, the PC refused to play it in Windows Media Player........we finished the wine and gave up. She'll be buying a Mac soon I wager. Apologies to the staff at PC World (excluding Mac) who will deal with her tomorrow.
Summary. PC's - for people who want a computer but have no desire to do anything useful.
Fresh blood for the Cult of Mac. Good work sir, your cheque is in the post.
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