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Uber…

23 Thursday Jan 2025

Posted by sulis303 in business, life, moments, retirement, technology, travel, Uncategorized, weather

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app, big girl pants, blessed, family, handy, learning, moments, nature, ride, snow, Technology, Uber, weather, widow

had my first Uber rides in Winnipeg…

went from home to Total Wrapture spa for pedicures, then on to San Vito for lunch, followed by a return trip home from Foodfare…

it was the perfect day for it as it was very cold, snowy, and windy…

one of the vehicles had automatic sliding doors, which was kind of fun…

after being trained in the process of ordering the ride, and other information on the app, I tried to sign up for it, but it was using my old email address, so we have to get that sorted out and then I will try it on my own…

a great experience, particularly with how quickly they pick you up after contacting them…

pine…

01 Saturday Jun 2024

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I enjoy spending time in the garden watching the birds that come to the feeders, and the pond, for a drink and maybe a bath, lol…

sometimes I will see a new visitor but can’t quite identify them, but the Merlin sound app often gives me something to compare them with…

yesterday I’d seen a cute little bird, about the size of a chipping sparrow, but didn’t have time to look it up… today I was sitting in the garden with the sound app on and discovered it was a pine siskin…

technology is so cool;-)…

microwave…

11 Wednesday Jan 2023

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app, big girl pants, blessed, light strip, microwave, moments, pot light, Technology, widow

ordered a light strip to replace the pot lights that have stopped working under the kitchen counter…

took a while to arrive and then I needed to read the directions a few times before installing it…

had to move the microwave and it took some effort but eventually I got the old lights removed…

then it took another while to figure out how to connect the app I downloaded and get the light to work…

and at that point I discovered that the new light strip didn’t provide enough light, sigh…

now to decide on next steps…

slides…

01 Tuesday Mar 2022

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I downloaded an app the other day, rather excited as it was supposed to copy old slides into electronic versions…

I found the slides I had put aside and followed the instructions and it made six great photos…

then, it advised I needed to buy the program to be able to save the photos… very disappointing… it is frustrating when the apps aren’t clear that you need to pay a certain amount to use them… with only a few slides paying $8 a month seemed a little excessive, lol…

it was fun to see the photos, even if only for a few minutes…

smoke…

30 Saturday Jan 2021

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app, big girl pants, blessed, ladder, moments, nest, password, smoke, Technology, widow, wifi

months ago the Nest smoke detector on the ceiling upstairs stopped connecting to the wifi because the password changed and I couldn’t figure out how to reset it…

a few weeks ago I decided to delete it from my app and add it again so that I could get the correct password installed…

after I deleted it, and tried to add it back, I discovered that I needed the bar code or serial number… I was so excited that I had the box it came in… but, no serial number… it was located on the back of the detector… so, I just left it alone…

while the ladder was in the house I took it upstairs, removed the detector from the ceiling, found the code, added it to the app, and got it up and connected again… then attached it back to the ceiling and took the ladder back to the garage…

glad I thought of it while the ladder was still in the house…

BeeWi…

07 Friday Sep 2018

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app, BeeWi, big girl pants, iPhone, light, purple, Technology, widow

having to turn on the bedroom light in the morning, sigh, so I’ve started to use my BeeWi iPhone app to turn off the light when I leave the room…

had a bit of fun with changing the colour of the bulb… nice to play with, but I’m sure it will end up white again, lol…

so far I don’t need to use it to turn the light on when I come upstairs after work:-)… sadly the time is coming when I will need to…

SmartPad…

13 Wednesday Dec 2017

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this morning I remembered to take a few shots as I was using my BeeWi SmartPad app…

I find it so handy, particularly at night when I am heading upstairs and have my hands full…

I can turn it on from my phone downstairs before I head up… it also can change colour but I don’t really use that piece of it…

thinking I might get a few more of the light bulbs and maybe even one for a plug… not sure what else they have…

technology is such fun when it works, lol…

Starbucks…

19 Wednesday Apr 2017

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got an email from Starbucks the other day to advise that for my birthday they would give me a free drink or something to eat…

then I had some trouble getting my app to work… had to go in and change my password, lol… not sure if my age is making me forget passwords or what the deal is…

the reward is only good for a few days, so today a colleague and I walked down to a Starbucks which was close by to redeem my treat… for whatever reason the network wouldn’t connect so after a number of attempts, just paid for my Evolution drink, which is one of the only things I can have there;-(…

was kind of sad because I’d been excited about the treat… tonight I tried the app again and it connected just fine and this came up…

but I think I had to redeem it by end of today, lol…

the whole thing is a bit funny because I didn’t need the drink so should have just walked away without it…

then, to top it off, I left it at work when I came home…

maybe I will walk down there again tomorrow and see what happens…

tulips are nearly done…

return…

02 Saturday Jan 2016

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app, big girl pants, bunny, decorations, exercise, fun, lentils, orchid, plants, read, return, sunshine

decided that today was the day to put away all the Christmas decorations…

for the last few days I’ve taken pictures of many of the ornaments as I knew they’d be coming down soon… used one of my apps to make a nice collage…

  
got my exercise as I brought up boxes, put away ornaments, and took them back downstairs… 

always a bit sad to take everything down… and it took a good portion of the day… maybe because I took a few breaks for reading and napping, lol… did spend some of the time thinking about the fun I had with my friend when we put all the decorations up…

the living room has returned to normal… my plants are happy because they’d been relegated to a back room for the duration…

was happy to get a few pictures of the orchid… it really is amazing…

  
enjoyed seeing the sunshine again…

  
the paths continue to be used constantly… recently the bunny spent a good portion of a day sitting in the garden so I saw it a number of times… it is really big…

tomorrow is my last day before going back to work… gonna try a lentil recipe and get in a bit more reading…

bright…

29 Monday Dec 2014

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another sunshiny day…

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stayed in for breakfast… felt like –41 Celsius outside…

went out for lunch with a friend and his three children… busy, lol…

one of my gifts was a light that I can turn on with an app on my iPhone… besides white, it can also turn any colour I’d like… guess which colour I’ve made it so far…

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in the background is my new picture which the kids picked for me at IKEA… it looks lovely against the purple wall…

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I do love technology…

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