red750

I can't remember when I last wrote a "letter". The only thing we send by snail mail is Christmas cards, and even they are becoming less and less. This Christmas I only sent them to my siblings and my wife's siblings. My parents generation died years ago. I only received 4 cards this year. Most of my communication is by email or text. Phone conversations are decreasing, because I have great difficulty hearing, even with headphones. Non-family friends are Facebook friends, (former colleagues, etc.), with whom I communicate by FB direct messages.

I pay some of my bills by direct debit, council rates in monthly instalments, Linkt tollroad bill, health, car and house insurance. Phone bill, electricity, gas, water I pay incrementally each pension day by Bpay so I build up a credit. That's why the power bill I got today was $0.00. $23,60 in credit towards the next bill. I find it easier to budget that way. The phone bill is always the same. I have the cheapest plan Vodafone offer, and we never exceed the usage allowance on the plan. My phone and my daughters are on the one plan, she pays NBN and Foxtel.

I don't "just click on links", I delete them. I also have a strong antivirus that rejects and blocks an enormous amount of stuff. I run regular system scans to search for problems. All clear.

One pf the things affecting the writing of letters is that younger people these days are have forgotten or have not learnt to read and write cursive. Everything is done on a keyboard. Even I now have to sit and practice a bit before I write anything, or it is totally unreadable. Jerry, you seem to be the expert in this area. What is the chance of fraud with cloud storage? It seems everything you do ends up on the cloud. Even transferring a photo from my phone wants to send it to the cloud, and create a Word document or Excel spreadsheet, and click Save As, and the default destination is cloud storage. I have been receiving 3 or 4 emails a day for over a month saying my cloud storage is full, and requesting me to renew. The emails are obviously a scam, because they come from what look like private email addresses, the headline showing in my inbox summary mention names I don't know, or gobbledegook (eg tfg.h/uytfgbnyhjm, see below), and the email addresses are all No Reply addresses. They threaten deleting my files and photos, and now say I won't be able to send or receive emails. The only ones I want to stop receiving are these bloody cloud renewal ones. I just direct them to the trash folder. I have tried to cancel the cloud option from my computer and the cloud symbol in the taskbar has a slash through it.

The problem with some of these sites is that you have to spend a minimum amount. Say you see something you want for $25. You may have to find something you don't want or need to bring your purchase up to the minimum (say $40).

??? He posted it on Facebook. He's always coming up with this oddball sort of stuff. He posted this one this morning - "I must admit that Joan and I had a battle of words last night. You know you are getting old when New Year’s Eve sees you playing Scrabble."

I used Amazon for my three kids Christmas presents, all ordered separately. I was given 3 months free Amazon Prime, cancel at any time. With Prime, I got free delivery. I got an order confirmation email within 10 minutes of ordering, advising that delivery would be in two days. On the second morning after each order, I got an email saying my order was out for delivery. The dog barked when the parcels were dropped on the front porch, and shortly after, an email advising delivery had been completed. Very efficient and professional service. The only complaint I had was that they stuck the delivery label directly onto the box of my younger son's present, a car battery trickle charger, which detracted from it's appearance as a present. It was what he asked for, and didn't affect the present, just didn't look crash hot.

Funny how your perceptions change as you get older. The year 2000 doesn't seem that long ago, and it comes as a bit of a shock when you realise it was quarter of a century ago. That's what happens when you are more than three quarters of a century old.

The above came from my idiot brother. Well, I did it. Let's hope it turns out for the best.

Maybe it would be better if Australia Post services were curtailed. They are pretty RS and have been for some time. I sent a Christmas card and lotto ticket to my brother-in-law in Queensland. It was fully addressed with street name and number, town and postcode We have sent cards to the same address for a number of years without problems. This year, it was returned with a big yellow sticker on it - "Post box unknown, Town name." There are lots of complaints on Facebook, presents sent a week or two before Christmas still not delivered, parcels going within Victoria stuck in Perth. It's been the same for years.

Message from Spacey: Thanks Red750 . I cannot sign in at all ! . So please tell everyone I'm fi e . & wish them all a great year . spacesailor . Bryan .

Tonight, at midnight, lift your left leg up off the ground. That way you’ll be starting the new year off on the right foot.

You're absolutely correct Nev.