The 2019 A to Z Challenge . . . Letter X

X

Well if there is one letter of the alphabet my slightly weird theme is perfect for it is X. Yes everyone has heard of Plan X and I bet many of you have at some point in your life embarked on your own Plan X, I know I have several times.

Of course the most important aspect of Plan X is that it’s a secret and a pretty big one at that or it would not be called Plan X. In other words the one thing I cannot do here is actually tell you all what Plan X is. Well it is a secret, but again I can refer you to Wikipedia or a general search of Goggle for a random selection of Plan X’s. Remember though any Plan X that turns up on the internet telling folk what Plan X is, is not a good Plan X.

I can say, that one important point to remember with my own Plan X is you need to remember to Duck or you will have a sore head  

Over the years I have created many cardboard arty things

This is one of them made as a Wedding Present 

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The Xecotcovach Bird

Someone will be thinking Hang On where have I heard of that before

  

C is for the Curious Case of the Computer Update

Late last night myself and Mr Jones dressed up in camouflage armed ourselves with pointy sticks and a selection of large blue blocks that Mr Jones said were his secret weapon and ventured out into the night to defend Earth from the Rat People of Eaglefleebite 7. Mr Jones said if we could catch Big Boris and entice him into eating some of the blue blocks then it was game over.  Of course the best laid plans of mice and men or should I say RATs (as in Radical Abstract Thinkers) and men never go to plan (it is another stupid saying), and the Rat People of Eaglefleebite 7 did not turn up there was not a single light anywhere to be seen. Mr Jones said it was very annoying and also extremely curious indeed.

On the subject of curious things, what did happen last night which most folk would not think about much was my trusty old PC did a Windows Update. OK I can hear you all type, SO WHAT, but this old PC runs Windows XP the now dead operating system which I recently rallied round to support with my We Love XP campaign . . . . Keep Windows XP Undead. . . . 

I had started to think my efforts were scratching uselessly at the Big Gates (affectionately nick named Bill) of the huge Microsoft corporate body, but maybe not. Could it be that a member of the almost unheard of elitist Keep Windows XP Undead Gorilla Movement has gnawed their way through the skirting boards unseen and in the best tradition of Moles now sits at the heart of the Microsoft organisation?  Sticking their head above ground to create another little mound for us to scoop up before vanishing back underground to hide in the labyrinth of dark tunnels (Microsoft really should spend more money on lighting up those corridors.

 Of course if the elitist member of the Keep Windows XP Undead Gorilla Movement sticks his head above ground for too long folk will say things like . . . . . . . . .  What is Brian from Software Development doing eating the skirting boards . . . . . .and . . . . . . O my god have you seen the large deposit he has left on the lawn. You don’t think maybe he has turned into one of those Rat People of Eaglefleebite 7.

Anyway this is long enough now for a daily diary entry so I will go leaving you with the following questions.

Is Brian one of the Rat People of Eaglefleebite 7 rather than a Mole? . . . . . They look similar

Is Windows XP still one of the Undead?  . . . . . . . . (WELL COOL)

Will Big Boris return tonight?

Why did a man called Mr Gates call his operating system Windows, does he have a buildings fetish? 

Why would some mad bloke start working his way through the Alphabet all over again? 

The WE LOVE XP . . . KEEP WINDOWS XP UNDEAD and the famous Professor George Aberchip Flightman.

Today was sunny very sunny and I have been out hunting Zombies, I need to recruit them for the campaign to save Windows XP, a campaign that so far has attracted a huge amount of interest. When I say a huge amount of interest, I am exaggerating a bit, OK a lot; it is in fact a huge lie. It has attracted no interest what so ever.  But I am not down hearted this is what happened to Professor  George Aberchip Flightman, He was never downhearted and fought on for years to ensure that his battle against the powers that be would be heard, and now he is a house hold name. He will for ever be remembered as the man who beat the system and proved that even in the face of the massed forces of government and the grinding wheels of bureaucracy and international corporate finance, being stubborn and determined will win out in the end.  I will become the George Aberchip Flightman of the future and will be able to pass his memorial and give him a nod and a wink in a knowing way.

Anyway the WE LOVE XP . . .  Keep Windows XP Undead campaign needs some street cred and one way of doing this is to get the Undead on side. Who could not sit up and notice as a happy smiling group of Zombies and Vampires shuffle down your High Street with placards  saying things Like . . . .  Save Our XP  . . . or . . . . .  XP has Good Bites . . .  or even . . . .  Give Us Your Brain, it can Help…….. or the classic The Microsoft Brains make good soup . . . . 

However after two years of battles with the undead with pointy sticks and the like I am finding it hard to convince them that I come in peace. I tried to show one of the clever ones why Windows XP has merit but he got lost at the point I plugged my PC into the extension lead in the garden. Zombies are not allowed in the house. He did cheer up and smile a bit when I showed him a cute cat on YouTube, his little face shouting out DINNER, but he sort of lost the plot again when he found he could not grab the cute cat from out of the screen. Annoyingly I now have Zombie teeth marks in my monitor. 

We did in the end make a deal and they (the Zombies) are willing to help on a one to one basis so for every XP operating system the Zombies help to save, I will give them a cute cat to chew on  a bit. . . . . YES YES I know it’s not what I planned, but cute cats are far less useful than Windows XP. In fact  . . . . . cute cats are less useful than Windows XP. . . . . is a rather catchy and useful slogan, I may use that

Right I expect support on this, just remember Professor  George Aberchip Flightman.



Oooooo yes I have the perfect WE LOVE XP Song  . . . . .Although you do need to substitute the words Bela Lugosi's  with Windows XP is

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The Keep XP Undead Kampaign (not todays K post that was the last one)

It appears that after a long battle Microsoft Windows XP has almost lost its war with the elements as it slips into the shadows of cyberspace history, I say almost because at present it appears that of all people, the British Government has come to its rescue. . . . . I know it's a shock.  But there are good sound reasons for this, the underlying main one being, the IT folk of the British government are all getting on a bit (like the Ghost Writer) and Windows XP is integrated so deeply into some of the database systems it will be a serious pain in the ***** to untangle the mess. Old IT folk do not like hassle so if they can keep it alive for a while longer they will all get to retire and leave some young keen IT geek to sort it all out.

Anyway as I was chit chatting about in the vast voids of cyberspace I found some Linux folk sniggering and not being nice about Windows XP.  Linux users have historically always seen themselves as the rebellious underdog fighting the fight of the common man against the grinding wheels of the establishment and true it was the case back in the old days when most folk did not understand Linux and just wanted to look at a cute cat on the internet. 

But I feel the tide has turned the true eccentrics of cyberspace have finally said lets get retro and say enough is enough, leave us to bimble about with what we like and know and are happy with. We don’t want more and more new shiny operating systems and devices, most folk hardly scratch the surface of the old systems before it is deemed obsolete.

So today I have started the . . . . . WE LOVE XP campaign KEEP WINDOWS XP UNDEAD, it has the added advantage I get to draw Zombies, Banshees and Vampires and everyone likes a friendly Zombie. I will tell you all now it is a futile and ultimately doomed campaign, but has all the makings of a truly maverick and eccentric campaign that will keep all those young IT geeks annoyed for ages as they proclaim I am an IDIOT and XP is Rubbish. But we all know they are wrong as it is really easy to look at cute cats on the internet with and that is what counts (No the cat is not counting . . . it just looks like it on Youtube).

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