Today's meeting of the Girl's Night Out group was at Scheller's in Glen Flora. We all love going to Scheller's -- there's just a friendly vibe and comfy feel there. Not to mention giant containers of BlueBell ice cream that is hard to resist for dessert!
Dee picked me up and we arrived a few minutes after the car full of passengers that Dot brought. I walked the 10 steps or so from the car to drop an envelope into the box outside the post office next door. How handy!
Walking in, we spotted and then stopped and visited with Marilyn, a former county agent who has written Scout, the Dog Who Saved the Nutcracker and several other children's books. A couple of tables past Marilyn we came to our table. This week there were seven of us present.
After almost two hours of visiting, ordering, eating and more visiting, we finally got up to go. Dee walked around and opened the passenger door on the driver's side to place her purse on the seat. At the same time I opened the front passenger door. I stood staring at the floorboard and asked Dee, "Was this dog dish in here when you picked me up?" I vaguely heard Dee say, "When did I buy these?" Then I said, "Is this your car?" And that's when we realized it wasn't.
Of course, we both burst into laughter and had to tell Dot's group what we did. Dee said she thought it was Marilyn's car, so we went back in to tell her about it. We burst into laughter again as we backed out a few minutes later. Dee said, "It's not even the same color as mine!"
Yes, we are seniors!
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Monday, July 15, 2013
Up and Running
Don't interpret that title to mean I'm exercising. In my last post I belly-ached about my computer dying. At least, I'm pretty sure I complained about it. It was a hassle I didn't need. But, all is back to normal now. I picked up my new computer today and have to admit it's kind of an anti-climax. I have been using Wayne's (or, to be more precise, the computer formerly known as Wayne's) and have adapted fairly well. Between his computer and my iPhone, I barely missed a beat.
His computer didn't have Word or Excel on it, but I found a free Office-type program that worked pretty much the same way -- and I was even able to save documents as as Word or Excel documents. And it was FREE! I was able to be on the internet and check emails, but I didn't have access to any of the thousands of photos that were on my computer. Guess what? It was fine!
The program that I needed the most was Quicken, so I could write the few checks necessary (really, only one check) without *gasp* having to actually pick up a pen and write them. I finally had to bite the bullet and write one out by hand, but I waited until the last possible day to do so. I found out that I can install Quicken on more than one computer, so I guess I will do that and also network the two computers so that, God forbid, I NEVER have to hand-write a check again. Geez! What's next? Having to spoon coffee into a Mr. Coffee instead of popping a K-cup into a Keurig?
But, seriously, the one thing I didn't have to worry about was the data on my "old" laptop. (It must be old in dog years because it was only 3 years old in my years.) I have been backing up to Carbonite online for the past 2 or 3 years. It's only about $60 per year and well worth it in my opinion.
As it turned out, however, I didn't have to use the backup from Carbonite, because it was my motherboard that died, not the hard drive. And when I say it died, I mean that mother DIED -- I couldn't even turn the computer on. But, the hard drive could still be accessed, so I just let the tech at the computer store transfer everything to the new laptop. I took my installation CD's to him and it's been fairly painless to get up and running again. Fairly painless for me, anyway, since I didn't do anything.
The new laptop, an Asus, has Windows 8 on it. I'm pretty sure I have had almost every operating system that has been offered. I never had Vista, thank goodness, and I might have missed another one around the turn of the century. So far, so good -- I've just been on the internet and in a few of the programs and I haven't had to deal with the different look of Windows 8. Maybe I'll check it out when I get caught up in Quicken.
His computer didn't have Word or Excel on it, but I found a free Office-type program that worked pretty much the same way -- and I was even able to save documents as as Word or Excel documents. And it was FREE! I was able to be on the internet and check emails, but I didn't have access to any of the thousands of photos that were on my computer. Guess what? It was fine!
The program that I needed the most was Quicken, so I could write the few checks necessary (really, only one check) without *gasp* having to actually pick up a pen and write them. I finally had to bite the bullet and write one out by hand, but I waited until the last possible day to do so. I found out that I can install Quicken on more than one computer, so I guess I will do that and also network the two computers so that, God forbid, I NEVER have to hand-write a check again. Geez! What's next? Having to spoon coffee into a Mr. Coffee instead of popping a K-cup into a Keurig?
But, seriously, the one thing I didn't have to worry about was the data on my "old" laptop. (It must be old in dog years because it was only 3 years old in my years.) I have been backing up to Carbonite online for the past 2 or 3 years. It's only about $60 per year and well worth it in my opinion.
As it turned out, however, I didn't have to use the backup from Carbonite, because it was my motherboard that died, not the hard drive. And when I say it died, I mean that mother DIED -- I couldn't even turn the computer on. But, the hard drive could still be accessed, so I just let the tech at the computer store transfer everything to the new laptop. I took my installation CD's to him and it's been fairly painless to get up and running again. Fairly painless for me, anyway, since I didn't do anything.
The new laptop, an Asus, has Windows 8 on it. I'm pretty sure I have had almost every operating system that has been offered. I never had Vista, thank goodness, and I might have missed another one around the turn of the century. So far, so good -- I've just been on the internet and in a few of the programs and I haven't had to deal with the different look of Windows 8. Maybe I'll check it out when I get caught up in Quicken.
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