Following a request to take a funeral from Father Mark, I made a bereavement visit yesterday morning, then prepared the service, ready for Monday. Then I went to the CBS office to get my newsletter efforts from last night checked and ready for emailing out before the end of the afternoon. The print version will have to wait until Monday to be produced.
This morning we drove to Kenilworth to celebrate Rhiannon's eleventh birthday. We were meant to look after her in the evening, but Kath and Anto's gig was cancelled at the last minute, so we had extra family time together. We played Monopoly again, naturally, and after supper watched the hilarious cartoon movie 'Cloud and Raining Meatballs', originally a childrens' book satirising America's food consumer culture, whilst mocking every other kind of film scenario and visual cliche imaginable. Very clever, as it makes the film as funny and entertaining for adults as for children.
When we arrived, my Blackberry announced it was going to do an operating system update, taking several hours, for which it needed to be plugged in while downloading 1.5 gigabytes of data and installed it. This passed without incident, but I was mildly irritated by the small changes to the look and feel of the user interface. For a while it'll mean that it can't be used habitually. Extra apps will need to be re-installed, and changes adapted to, some of which I'm not sure of, like the dominance of the 'Reply All' button, making it too easy to make unintended responses to the wrong people, also the pop-up delete button on a new email notification. It fades in seconds, but is too easy to tap unintentionally before a message has been read or its content registered. Not good for impulsive or careless users.
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