Thursday March 5 2009

Our House from the Corner

Eye Yiii Yiii! Where did the day go? I got up earlier than usual and filled every moment with mostly enjoyable things. Never did get breakfast eaten, just too busy to get around to it. I thought this would be a painting day too, but no painting accomplished. Let's see, Yesterday evening Cheyenne came and worked well over an hour on the computer trying to solve the error message thing I've been getting so much of. He mostly honed in on the Norton, but since the internet wasn't working and "they" say that problem he discovered downloads really slowly, it wasn't resolved. It was still sitting there "downloading" when I turned it on this morning. I was supposed to finish it up by his instructions, but things weren't there exactly as he said and I might have goofed that up by not knowing what I was doing. THANK YOU, CHEYENNE FOR COMING OVER TO HELP.

Early on sat down at the computer, should never do that if anything else is to be accomplished. I attempted to sort out some of my multiples of saved files on the external hard drive. I have NO IDEA how to manage all these copies it keeps making and can't find anything, as it doesn't copy my nicely organized folders. It just dumps everything out in a huge heap and no way can I tell if there's one copy or ten, or none. After a couple of hours of that I've about decided to delete everything in there, and then read the manual, and then save everything ONE TIME out of the PC and the laptop. Haven't figured that out yet.

Still been having trouble with the wireless Internet connection. And twice was on the phone with the centurytel tech guys. First called before lunch, but didn't have time to finish. Seems like somehow I got connected to some second wireless connection, probably the neighbor's nearby. It may have gotten knocked off the signal while I was gone by a power surge or something. I have a good surge protector, but perhaps it just keeps things from getting burned up, not slightly scrambled. Anyway, that's what the gist of the problem was with not getting on the Internet most of the time I tried since I got back from the trip. Sometimes I could and sometimes not. It ended up on DSL with no wireless or a very low signal??? I don't know. Another mystery to me. It's back to normal now. I wanted - in fact demanded - the local centurytel tech guy to come and do it for me, but that would have been $85 if the guy on the phone couldn't find a problem to put on the work order, and doing it on the phone to who knows who and where was free. He was sure puzzled for a while, but gradually figured it out. Thank goodness. So just got done reading everyone's blogs and emails for today. All interesting.

At 11 a.m. took the dogs downtown to get their baths and at 2:30 had to go pick them up. I drove on the back road - I should just start calling it Lake Street so you know where I mean when I tell you next time - and there were about 100 deer between the cemetery and the hill. So pretty and unafraid. Took a few more pictures. The dogs are all clean and brushed now, and she cut their toenails so I don't have to do that either. I let them run home alongside the car from the corner to our house so they got a little exercise.

Bonnie brought back a container about 11:30 and some banana nut muffins. She said they were a peace offering because she was worried that Craig had burned my container heating up some tamales I sent home with them. But it was probably already burned. It's only a plastic cube anyway. I kept the muffins.

So we invited her to come to lunch at Rendezvous Pointe with us. They had some braised? pork chops and mashed potatoes and gravy. It came with sauerkraut, but several of us declined the sauerkraut. The salad bar is always delicious and there was pumpkin bread with cream cheese. Joe had to get some new batteries for his hearing aids there today, so that's why we went. Bonnie stayed and we had a good chat. Since Sandra gave me the atomic clock, I've been trying to get all the displays to work right. Kept showing Eastern time. Bonnie gave it a try and got further than I have - it's got the right time, but now it won't show the outdoor temperature. I was going to take the batteries on the outdoor sensor out and back in, but haven't got to that yet.

Rollie was there for lunch and it was kind of funny that he said he'd been reading the blog and wanted to know if I'd found my black knit pants (missing from the trip to Vegas) yet. And no they haven't showed up anywhere. I'm beginning to think I must have had a really good time somewhere, but just can't remember it.

Sitting on the phone with the centurytel guy the second time took until time to cook dinner and there was the day.

Perhaps tomorrow or by the weekend I can get the new camera software installed and start getting pictures on to the blog again.