Being ible

My ideas about what I want in life have changed a lot in the last couple of years. I talk a lot in this blog about what it is I want and don't want. What is on my list is 'ible' or possibly 'able'.
My sister found herself these qualities in a man a good 13 years ago. He is;

• sensible
• responsible
• reliable
• dependable
• reasonable 

 He is a good egg. 

At the weekend, I went to see my old university friends. I had a great time. They are a great bunch of people and 11 years after we graduated, I still think I was very lucky to have befriended those people.
One of the group is my boyfriend from the first year and some of the second. I told him I was writing this blog. We're good friends still which is great and I wanted his opinion because he's clever at English! He asked me if I'd written bad things about him on my blog. I laughed.
Not at all. I have great respect for him- always will, and not just because he might read this!

We may not have been destined for a lifelong love but one of the things I really appreciated about him was his dependability. In the days before mobile phones were in everyone's posession, we had..............the land line. In the Summer months, because we lived on opposite sides of the country, we'd ring each other every other day.
I knew that when he said he'd ring, he would. Never let me down. I felt very secure. We wrote to each other too. How archaic that seems now, but it was nice. I have a note he left me once- it reads;
Milk is in the fridge, the £5 I owe you is in Hobgoblin's till. It makes me laugh, - I did get the money and the milk!

At work this week I have been irritated to the point of distraction by my SMARTboard which has decided to 'crap-out'. Many phone calls to the manufacturer and the company who service it have led to our secretary using the bad 'f' word at work today.
YES we have checked it's plugged in,
YES, we have tried orienting the board
YES, all the leads are in the right sockets etc etc.

Sadly I have become too dependent on this board and so for this week, I've been a little lost. I have no chalk, I cannot access the content of my memory stick for phonics....I have to try and recall life before the SMARTboard.
The SMARTboard is not ible or able.

Apparently neither is the man who installed it. I was asked to find a button in the bottom right hand corner. I was on the phone while my class changed for PE, on my hands and knees trying to find the button he described;
"No, I cannot get behind it, it's 2mm away from the heater."
"Oh dear, it's meant to be far from heat sources!" the man on the other end of the phone (in 6th phone conversation of the day) immediately agrees to send round an engineer.