Costco Thursday!

Peggy is kind enough to take us on a Costco tour, usually on Thursdays. We have a bunch of fun on girls day at Costco. We have a little lunch from all the offerings and sometimes we succumb to temptation and buy into it and other times we pass it by.

Letter to My Grandfather by Colleen O'Brien

Reading my friend Colleen's column is like an early morning walk with her on the bike trail.
In this one she ponders what her grandfather would think of the newfangled stuff we all have now.
Enjoy
http://greenecountynewsonline.com/2014/01/22/letter-to-my-grandfather/#more-2029

Catch up

Well now really, what have I been doing, the answer my friends is the same stuff as I was a week ago. My two brand new baby newbies are coming along at a very fast pace. I said to Sally,"When was it that your Chromebook got here?" The answer is 4 days ago! She is sending email and checking in on Facebook and beginning to be comfortable in doing that. Her hubby Don pretty much has his Kindle Fire figured out and can navigate it almost faster than I can. I doubt that it is a month old. They both have taken off like big agile birds.
Our weather in a word stinks. The trees were coated with ice this morning however the high for tomorrow will be 70+ and I am ready. I haven't had a good walk now for a couple of days.

I was very surprised to get an email from my sis-in-law Keri telling  me that her workplace is switching to Chrome/gmail. She isn't all that crazy about it, of course, because it is always a bit uncomfortable to change. Daughter-in-law Susan wasn't either when her workplace did the same. It has been long enough now  for Susan that I imagine she has figured it all out. I came to Chrome basically because I liked the speed of the browser compared to the other top two-Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.  I kind of doubt that Internet Explorer is still in the top 3 but it might be. It has probably been 8+  years since I last used it. The last time I did use it, on someone else's computer, I found that it had not changed much. Still slower than molasses in January.

So I find that helping others with their computers makes me a bit buggy eyed by the time I get to my own stuff. Oh yes, that reminds me of the 20-20-20 rule for sitting at the computer. To prevent eyestrain you are supposed to take a 20 second break every 20 minutes and look up and out at a point at least 20 feet away. Very good advice-Pass it on.

Now I think I will check in with my "Words with Friends" people and see how bad they are beating me.

Here we go again

The temps are to drop into the 40's and stay that way for a couple of days. I am always so grateful that my interests basically revolve around indoor activities. I love to walk and bike but a couple of days away from those activities are not bad. Now when we get into the 3rd day I start getting antsy.
This morning I wandered over to the pool hall to join the other ladies playing. I had a good time and played well.

I decided to look for a bit of color to add to the blog. It is kind of amazing that when I go back and look at pictures I take, I am whisked  back to that moment in time and I know exactly where the picture was taken, This was taken at the Leo and Keri Brooker house on their patio on the northeast part of their yard.

Now this is freaky. I turned the channel because I was "watching" the public television station but they decided to show a Texas political show so I stayed with public television but a different one and they were covering photographers and asking them how they feel about their photos and what they were thinking at the time they took the shot. My photo above was taken because I loved the color contrast and I am always partial to flowers.

Happened Yesterday...

Admit it. You saw the title and started anticipating something big happening. Sorry to disappoint you. I do not know if you would have an interest in my discoveries of yesterday or not but it is my blog after all.

In my discoveries and rediscoveries of all things Internet helping others is a great refresher course for me. I did an overview of Chrome with a newbie and we were briefly  looking at each of the apps in her Chrome apps collection. It struck me just how much there is to learn! We have only begun on email. Then there are all the things you have to join or sign up for. That is a tedious part of it all. Lining up newsletters and websites of interest and getting them bookmarked so they can be found easily. And then we looked at Youtube and particularly the tutorials. There are many great tutorials on youtube and that is an area I have neglected in my own daily computing. We watched a couple; one on a seed bead bracelet, another on the Kindle Fire for beginners. On the Kindle Fire tutorial I was reminded that you can watch movies and TV shows on the kindle Fire and on Chromebook so we need to take a look at that sometime soon as well. And we have not even touched online shopping and searching. The world is large and there is much to learn for them and me!

And then after all this I went to the pool hall for the mixed scotch doubles league. I think I have won 3 games all season and you play 5 each night. I do not feel I am that bad at it but the numbers say otherwise so may decide enough is enough and stick with what I know. Someone has to fill that bottom of the barrel spot each season but no one wants to be that person. I am sure my partners will  be feeling they have lost when they see me coming if they do not already. Unlike years past I do go practice on Monday mornings. I may stick with practicing.
Butch read his book on Kindle, practiced hitting some golf balls and watched 2 Mexican women sitting in chairs on Mexican TV. Oh, and I am sure he won his matches at Mixed league scotch doubles as I was not his partner.