Gina Hooking up The "Hopefully Repaired" ComputerThanks to Gina, I'm back on my regular computer (not the laptop). She had Best Buy mail it to her and this morning looked like a good weather day so she brought it out and hooked it all up. We worked a long time going through different programs and so far it does seem like most of it is in there and working. We had some glitches which were resolved o.k. , lost the keyboard for a while, I'm not sure at all whether it might crash again or not. I'm going to have to go at it slowly and make sure things like Microsoft Outlook and a few others are going to work, as they didn't when I sent it back to Best Buy. Still not sure if I can get the address book from Outlook Express (saved on the external drive) to import to the new Outlook. Stuff like that. The laptop is handy nearby just in case.
We had some lunch and gabbed a lot, and I enjoyed every minute of Gina being here. Joe had to go to the dentist over in Big Piney this morning to get a chipped tooth fixed, so he was gone for a while.
The day started off really nice and by late afternoon was setting in to snow again. We may get another storm, and have that kind of weather through Monday. About 5:30 UPS brought me a box from Cabela's with the warm tops I ordered, so probably tomorrow will open that and see what fits. I'm too tired tonight to get into that. Still none of the usual effects of the chemo this time like I've had in the past, so am doing well with that.
A friend of Joe's unexpectedly passed away a couple of days ago - the man who Joe has bought all our snowmachines from, and got parts and repairs for the machines all these years. The guys would go in his shop and sit around the wood stove and have coffee and visit. We were real sorry to hear of his death.
Joe wanted to send some flowers. The new store that replaced Falers where we've always gotten our flowers said there was only one person working in the flower shop and they couldn't have them ready by the funeral tomorrow (notice was really short), so I ordered from a new place in town and they didn't seem to have any problem with getting the flowers there.
Many roads around have been closed since Tuesday, and still are. This story on Pinedaleonline tells how hard the winds have been blowing and says that they will calm down to 40 mph tonight. We didn't get wind right here today, but sounds like another storm is coming. http://www.pinedaleonline.com/#i80updates
This sounds really awesome - we may not be able to see it for clouds:
NASA Science News for January 29, 2008
The two brightest planets are converging for a beautiful close encounter on Friday morning, February 1st. It's a sky show you won't want to miss.
FULL STORY at
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/29jan_venusjupiter.htm?list953085
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