And then...a head cold!

 Butch brought me a cold from the pool hall. Yes, we tested and yes we were negative. This brings back the days of old when every season I would get blessed with a head cold brought home from the pool hall.

There is nothing to do but medicate for it the best you can, stay away from people, sleep and wait. I am doing my best to achieve those goals. Every time I take a nap, and that is often, I hope to wake up and have it magically gone. So far that hasn't worked.

We had our place power washed by Steves Wash and Wax and they did an excellent job. The difference was amazing. I said it was my Birthday present because in the past Butch would insist he could do it and better than they could. And there may have been a time when that was true but looking up and working above his head brings about a great deal of pain and so it is time to take advantage of all that money you worked so hard to obtain. "Who are you saving it for?" is a common saying around our house these days.

The wind doth blow but we will have no snow and if we stay put we can continue to believe that to be true. It seems the first of March starts the exodus back north and we can never quite understand it because in the last 5 years or so there has been at least one snowstorm after we went back to Iowa in middle to late April.

We currently have no appointments anywhere and that is fine by me. I am ready to have the pace slow down a bit and we don't even participate in all the things we could.

Yes, I did it again

I was sitting at the kitchen table doing Diamond art when I happen to think about how long has it been since I posted. so I came over to the computer and found out it has been several days. and quite a lot has happened in several days, nothing really significant. 

This is going to be a rant. A while back I purchased a new computer. It was a Microsoft product. I had a few issues with it but figured it was because of all the new-fangled stuff and that I would soon get used to it. The very first thing I noticed was that it was very slow about half the speed of my Chromebook. The second thing was the files to apps and it seemed they had wiped out many of the things I counted on using, mostly related to pictures. I was still willing to stumble through and find solutions but then I didn’t shut down my computer one night and noticed at about 3:00 AM that it was running so I closed the lid. At about 5:30 AM, I noticed it was still running! So I figured it must have been a large update and went back to bed. When I next noticed my computer at about 8:00AM it was still running so I gave it my attention and noticed it was VERY hot. And it would not let me shut it down in a preferred manner so I shut it down in an unpreferred manner and let it cool off. After it cooled off I restarted it and much to my surprise I lost the Network/Internet driver. By this time I am as hot as the computer! So I put it all aside until I cooled off. After much thought, research and experimentation I decided to return the blasted thing to Costco and so I did.

I knew I was going back to multiple updates, purchasing malware and virus protection,and a generally slower machine but it was one of those deals where you don’t realize how irritating it is until you are once again dealing with it. Me and my Chromebook will remain besties!

Another thing that happened is that I became an 80-year-old woman on March 6th. This one stung a bit. It seems to be a number that I find bothersome. I will get used to it because they will not be able to change it at Costco.