Friday August 24 2007

TA-DAA!!

This is the day that Brandon from Best Buy was supposed to bring back the repaired computer and the NEW TV. He got here after lunch and carried them both in, hooked up the computer, then the TV. It is a victory of sorts, especially the TV, and the end of two months of total frustration. At the beginning I had no idea this whole thing wouldn't be over in a few days. Brandon was hardly here 30 minutes and then turned around and went back to Idaho Falls. I felt a little bit bad that he had such a long drive - with my speed of driving time it would have been 8 hours. But if they didn't want to do it they never should have made the promises that they did. At least finally it did work the way it should.

In the morning before he got here I got my housework pretty well done. My neighbor friend Sandra with her dog Tater Brown came over to pay Joe for hay they got and we sat and had coffee in the yard. I really enjoyed visiting with her and getting to know Tater better. He's a little Border terrier, really wire haired and cute. And busy. Sandra says those dogs come from the border between England and Ireland, I think that's what she said.

And after things were running again, I went online and downloaded all the email - about 1800 today; 800 more gone through a while back at the Senior Center computer, and a few days ago 500+ more on wyoming.com which address I don't even use any more. The first day I just sat until 12:30 a.m., then promised myself I wouldn't do THAT again. Several friends said to delete everything and tell people I lost it all, but I couldn't do it. Deleting what I could was the easy part. Most of the rest I've sorted into subject folders so I could read through them in order. Then there's still over 100 in the inbox to do something with. Reading and responding to all of it is probably going to take a couple of weeks. I've been gradually working on the emails more or less every day, and also catching up the blog - which I enjoy much more now than the email. The very first thing I sent off was the master membership structure which I had written for WAOW that they have been waiting for, part of the new bylaws. I am deleting all my newsletters and things I had subscribed to because there's just not time to read it all right now, as much as I enjoy them - like Writer's Almanac and Robert Genn.

Tater Brown