Super-productive

I have been super productive today. Well, "super" might not actually apply, I have been productive...certainly, more so than my usual self.  I set my alarm for 7:30 because Carolyn and I had appointments for facials at 10:30 this morning.

In preparation for being in the proximity of Lowes, I placed items in the car to be returned/exchanged there yesterday.  I ate my usual good breakfast this morning, cleaned up the kitchen and by a little before 9 o'clock I headed upstairs to get ready to leave.

While I hadn't heard from Carolyn about what time we were leaving, which was a bit unusual, I thought "We've done this so many times we don't really need to talk about it".  Suddenly, it occurred to me, though, that maybe our appointment is at 10 instead of 10:30, so I picked up my phone and opened the calendar. Just about the time the calendar opened, I thought to myself, "Wait a minute...maybe that appointment is next week."  And...of course it is.

I called Carolyn and confirmed that the appointment is not today and that was when I started getting productive.

• I've washed, dried and put away four loads of laundry

• I put away the remains of Zane spending the night with us a couple of weeks ago.

• I've made my bed with freshly laundered sheets.

• I did a sewing repair on a pair of shorts

• I put away a number of items that were in the wrong places

Now I'm in desperate need of a cup of coffee and maybe a slice of the beer bread that I made last night.

I also need to remove the items there were going to Lowe's from the car. Dee and I are going to Austin on Saturday and we are taking my car. Hopefully, I will remember to put them back in the car when we actually do go get our facials next week.

Yay, me!  Although....looking at my accomplishments, I'm sure that "super" isn't necessary.  Just plain "productive" will do.

Helpful Hint

I bought new fancy schmancy landline phones last week. The reviews I read online described the phone as being "easy to use and intuitive". The reviewers must have been way more technically savvy than I, and I don't think I'm a slouch in that department. I'm progressing, however, and I think I'll be fairly proficient in short order.

One of the cool features (maybe the main cool feature) is that it links with another Bluetooth device such as my cell phone or a headset. So if my cell phone rings, I can answer it using my house phone, thus reducing the radiation my poor brain is exposed to.

Once I had registered (paired) my cell phone to the house phone, I was able to transfer all my cell phone contacts to the house phone. The new house phone holds over 3000 numbers. The one it's replacing held only 100. It's still limited to only 16 characters in a name, though. That seems very restrictive to me, as well as puzzling.  One would think that technology had progressed way beyond the 16 character limit.  Maybe it has, but it isn't available for the $120 I paid for the base/answering/4 handset/bluetooth unit I bought. The limit means that while I might have three or four numbers for a contact, (they are all listed separately on the house phone, because that's the way the phone does it) but not enough room to indicate what device ("cell", "home", "work", "fax", etc.) the number calls.  Seriously? It will put the last few characters on a 2nd line and then the rest of the line is blank. Why can't I use the rest of the line?  Makes no sense to me.

I'm still reading the 98 page manual, but I wanted to
share the helpful instruction that might have been necessary in 1875. This could now be filed under the
"phone calls for dummies" section.

Rain!

Whoo-hoo! We actually have water standing all around the yard. It rained really hard for a little while. The English's pasture, across the road from us, has a lot of standing water… It's almost covered. The cows, standing near the hay, look perplexed. Who knows? Maybe they've never seen rain before. They're probably out there discussing it right now.

Meanwhile, I'm just enjoying the sound and the look of the long-awaited rain.