well, let me see...I'd better give my parents a call, tomorrow then...and see how they are etc etc....

what else? well the last post appeared to be an 'important one' for somebody...I have no idea why...but anyway, blogger was to put it through 9 times...I only clicked 'post' once...go figure...anyway I then had to delete 8 identical posts....

what else? well MSE appears to be downloading a new update this evening...but oh so slowly...and Microsoft 'updates' also appears to be up and running again...downloading 13 updates...oh so slowly...