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31 Saturday Dec 2016

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got some fun toys over the last week…

first this cool leef gadget… it sticks into the phone and copies whatever is on it, then plugs into the laptop and copies the contents onto the computer… it also acts as storage for my phone…

very quick and easy… think that it is going to be much simpler than connecting a cord to the computer and trying to find the phone before being able to copy over photos and other data… such fun;-)…

also got a much larger hard drive so my computer will stop telling me it is out of room… possibly it thinks I take too many pictures…

and last, but not least, a chromecast… 

just learned about this a few days ago… it streams media from the phone or laptop… I can now watch Netflix from the bedroom, using my phone… very cool…

picked up everything now so that my son-in-law could get it all working before he heads home from holidays…

testing it all to be sure I can work it without any problems when I’m on my own, lol…

chores…

09 Saturday Apr 2016

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had a good day… it was both restful and productive… got lots of chores done…

made a batch of zucchini basil soup and had some for my lunch… tasty as always…

watered plants and did laundry while watching some PVRed shows…

packed more items into my bag for the trip and read up on a few more places to eat…

spent time cleaning up email on the computer and trying to figure out the scanner… maybe tomorrow that piece of technology will cooperate, lol…

  
sun shone for the entire day, but it was cold with lots of blowing…

technology…

05 Tuesday Apr 2016

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happy today to get my camera back from the hospital… it had been there for a couple of weeks and I was really missing it…

  
pleased it wasn’t an expensive fix and it is back to its usual wonderful self…

  
am going to have to re-enter all the info about my eyefi to get it connected again, so that will be a job for the next few days…

had a friend look at the Olympus to remove the histograph from the view on the screen… I had tried a few times, without any success, to delete it as I find it distracting… he couldn’t figure it out either, lol…

had some fun downloading pictures from my iPhone to my computer at work… this was great because I had taken 77 pictures of an event last week and wanted to get them into a folder on my office computer and didn’t want to send them in groups of four by email… much simpler and way quicker… 

technology is great when you think about it…

just this afternoon we were looking at a form we had used six years ago when I started… it collected all the information but was handwritten so then we had to guess what had been entered… now, we email a fillable form which comes back typed and makes entering the data simple… if it isn’t filled out when a person arrives, we have an iPad available so that it can be completed in the office…

here’s the view out the window today…

  
enough with the snow already…

surprise…

28 Saturday Mar 2015

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finally the hot tub is back up to 103… early Friday morning I wasn’t sleeping so decided to go out for a hot tub, only to discover that the heater wasn’t running… came back in and laid in bed thinking of all the things that could be wrong with it…

once it was light, I went out and unplugged and plugged it into the outlet…  was so happy when it started and it has been heating up ever since… it had gone down to 63 Celsius… really glad I didn’t just jump into it…

hoping to go out a bit later tonight, although rain has been coming down for the last while…

did a few chores around the house and spent some time on the computer printing out my food diary and blood sugar readings for the doctor’s appointment this week… also moved 1400 pictures from my phone to the computer…

had a wonderful surprise when I was watering plants…

  

found these two blooms on the peace lily…

good day…

connecting…

26 Monday Jan 2015

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a while ago I finally read the manual that came with my blood sugar meter…

I discovered that there was a cable that could connect the meter and the computer and with a piece of software you could download all the readings… which I had to get…

of course you have to call the company between nine and five on a weekday to order the cable…

finally got through and had to give them all my information and the meter’s serial number before they could arrange to ship the cable…

gave them my work address for delivery as there is always someone able to accept a parcel there…

but I did find the parcel hanging from the the doorknob on my front door…

then I had to download the software and appropriate drivers…

eventually I was able to connect the meter and the computer and get all of the readings…

this is wonderful as I have been recording the readings three times a day in a note app on my phone…

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lots of hooking things up to get the required data…

looking forward to printing out the reports next time I see the doctor…

boots…

12 Wednesday Nov 2014

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snow was on the ground again this morning… had to put my boots on… I go as long as possible wearing my sandals… even once I am wearing my boots I use my sandals at work… they are by far the most comfortable shoes I have…

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after work I helped a friend download and learn a new computer program… great fun… whole process went very well… download was a piece of cake, and we were able to copy data into the program without any issues either… we entered new data and saved it easily… looks like it is going to be a great program…

tonight I am feeling cold and tired… going to climb into my pyjamas, get under the covers and get lots of sleep…

technology…

25 Tuesday Mar 2014

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this morning my son-in-law sent me information on a possible new computer… looks like a giant iPad type of machine…

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looks interesting… my laptop is an Acer and I’ve been happy with it… till it’s recent hacking scenario…

while I wait to get my laptop back I have one from my nephew, but may have injured it, so I still don’t have access to a laptop, lol…

but I’m not always eager to buy the first design of something, just in case there are any bugs…

mid afternoon I was handed an iPad for the front desk which clients will use to complete paperwork…

really worried that I am going to end up buying one for myself… have been thinking about it for quite a while, but haven’t had an opportunity to play with one…

and do I want the really large one or the smaller easier to travel one…

I do love technology…

what to do, what to do…

keep track…

08 Saturday Mar 2014

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this morning I got some shots of the beautiful diamonds in the snow…

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then I spent about two hours on the telephone with MTS (my internet service provider)…

all to do with the hacking of my computer a few weeks ago… my
laptop is still not back and so I decided to use the desktop to pay some bills…

rarely do I use it which meant that all of my favourite sites weren’t on it…

I didn’t remember the URL, or username for my credit card… had to search for the URL for my air miles program…

when I was hacked, the credit union helped me change my username and password right away, while I was at the office… rather stressed, I left that information in a notebook at my desk and have completely forgotten it, sigh…

in the process of finding the URL and username, the website sent me an email…

so, I tried to open my email on the desktop… using the new password that MTS had helped me change… my email wouldn’t accept it…

called and spoke with a lovely young man who reset the password and told me to wait five minutes and enter it… tried that, didn’t work… called again and spent a very long time with another person who gave me a different password which eventually worked but the email still wasn’t working… after he climbed into my computer and downloaded updates it eventually cooperated…

but he clicked something and now all the emails are gone from my phone, sigh… guess if I can’t find that spot I will need to call them back tomorrow…

has taught me that I need to keep a list of my favourite urls and user names… now, where will I put that list…

hacked…

18 Tuesday Feb 2014

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the picture below is of my computer… well, where my computer should be…

my nephew has just had a look at it and has taken it away to be de-bugged…

usually it isn’t that big a deal but whoever got into it tried to talk my financial person, via email, into wiring money to Istanbul… he realized it didn’t sound like my emails and called me at work…

since then I’ve talked to the police, who apparently wouldn’t do anything unless they had got my money, the bank to be sure no one had found their way into my accounts, my email service provider to figure out what I needed to do with that account… and I’ve tried to contact the anti-fraud people but haven’t connected with them yet…

all the while feeling violated and sick to my stomach…

started when I tried to open a file sent by a friend, with what I thought were baby pictures… said they were sending something in Google doc… if you get something along those lines – don’t open it!

what was particularly worrisome was that my finance guy was emailing me back and I never got those emails… the tech guy told me that they take them right off the server before they get downloaded to a person’s phone…

big girl pants again, sigh…

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