Technology Gremlins!!!!

Well ! What a day yesterday!  I used the computer as usual yesterday morning and went down for lunch. When I returned ready to go on as normal there was a log in box. Nothing new there, except that when I tried to log on as normal I kept getting a red box saying that AOL had discontinued the provider and we had to log in again for the updated version which would cost . Like Vin at first we thought it was a scam but that was not proved right, and we were unable to proceed further until he fiddled around with all sorts of technical matters I know nothing about. Nothing. We were locked out of the AOL and couldn't see a way out. What annoyed us was that it all happened without  warning. Nothing at all. 
We gave it up then went down for our coffee and countdown as we do, and it also transpired just before we went down that the Internet had gone down as well!! Nothing from there at all. Vin didn't know whether that was to do with the faults online or was totally separate. We thought maybe it was a blip and would come on again, but it didn't, and his tablet wouldn't work either.he could not get the WIFI on it at all.  Gave up for the day in exasperation, and went to bed, then he had a brainwave, he went down and fitted the old modem and lo and behold it worked!  Well done Mr Fixit! 
This morning Wednesday he had arranged for the chimney sweep to come this afternoon at 2.30, so pretty much everything was arranged around that. I stopped up here mostly out of the way. When I went down he had it all covered with plastic and cotton sheets, ready for him. He actually came at 2 o'clock, and used his vacuum to clear the chimney. Little Jessie ran out of the way when he came in, and is currently on Jane's bed behind me, while I am on the computer. That has proved to be a pain because having a whole new AOL  it meant that all my log in details have been lost so have had to do that all again, still can't complain since the whole thing is working again. It is all working again now but still needs a bit of tweaking. Like the Facebook which is centred on the right side instead of being in the middle as it used to be. If our Jane rings up maybe she will help me get it right, she is great on the computer. 

Out of the way!