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technology…

17 Tuesday Jun 2014

Posted by sulis303 in life, Uncategorized

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card reader, electronic picture frame, router, Technology, usb hub, wifi

while the kids were here we visited Best Buy and Future Shop a number of times and Ron was kept busy…

we picked up a USB hub…

20140617-205125-75085988.jpgand went back for a new card reader…

both of these items made me very happy… now I can finally plug in a USB stick and my camera memory card at my desktop… for months I haven’t been able to, which means I have basically had to write my blog on my phone… if I had a photo on the camera, I had to take a picture of the photo with my phone…

20140617-212404-77044058.jpgthen we got a new power bar which also has USB ports in it and that got put up on the wall… it is very handy and now there aren’t cords all over the floor… and I am going to be able to plug in my phone or fitbit in the living room…

best of all we picked up an additional router so that I can access wifi in the garden… all that work the MTS guy did, didn’t solve the wifi problem at all…

even the loaner laptop was fixed… apparently the date on it was wrong and that was causing it to refuse to go to any website… I can now access my email as well…

20140617-213301-77581594.jpgall the technology is working beautifully…

we won’t talk about the electronic frame which, just this morning, is telling me there are no photos on it, sigh…

gratitude…

02 Thursday Jan 2014

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bookmarks, calendar, Chihuly Garden and Glass, Dale Chihuly, electronic picture frame, exceptional customer service, gifts, gratitude, savour them, Staples, take a moment

as I sit here watching the fish swim happily about in their clean aquarium (thanks to my son-in-law) I looked over and saw my daughter and grandson on the electronic picture frame…

reminded me of just a few of things that I have to be grateful for… one was the amazing experience of visiting Chihuly Garden and Glass at the base of the Space Needle in Seattle this summer… and getting to meet Dale Chihuly in person…

January from my Chihuly 2014 calendar

January from my Chihuly 2014 calendar that I found just last week…

for many years George and I would make gifts to give to family and friends… this year I decided to do that again…

I spent time thinking of some of the things I am grateful for, as well as the people who fill my life… made a list of all those and put them in alphabetical order and produced a bookmark with the word gratitude and all of the things/people…

front of bookmark...

front of bookmark…

then I went through the pictures I took at Chihuly Garden and Glass and chose some for the back side of the bookmarks… I chose enough so that every bookmark had a different picture on it, making it unique, like the people who would receive it…

back side of bookmark...

back side of one of the bookmarks I still have…

took the pictures and list to Staples where I had an exceptional customer service experience… the young woman helped me get three of the gratitude pieces onto a single 8 1/2 by 11 sheet and then printed the pictures on the back… she also cut each one, laminated it and cut that as well… she took great care as she worked and I was very impressed with the final product…

today I was touched to see that two of my colleagues have them in a place where they can be seen all the time as they work at their desks… one has hers right on her screen so it reminds her of gratitude every time she looks at her computer… the other is on a ledge at eye level where another can see it whenever she looks up…

gratitude is such a simple thing that we tend to forget, or rush past…

wishing you the opportunity to remember the things you are grateful for, and take a moment to savour them…

 

Funny…

02 Wednesday Jan 2013

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electronic picture frame, funny, Grandpa Playlist, humour, random shuffle, shared, special

I’m sitting here in the living room watching the Kodak Pulse electronic picture frame… it has pictures I’ve put on it, as well as ones that others have emailed directly to it… it has a very random shuffle and sometimes I won’t see a picture for ages and then might see it three or four times in rapid succession…

I often look up and see George looking at me through two coasters, or maybe they are napkin rings, from a visit with Cyndi and Ron a couple of years ago…  it is a very funny picture and certainly reminds me of the humour that George shared with me and everyone else he connected with…

perfect example of George's wonderful silliness...

perfect example of George’s wonderful silliness…

recently a friend put up pictures on Facebook of her dogs with hats on, and it made me laugh, remembering all the times that George would go crazy with whatever hats happened to be around…

we have put lots of pictures of George onto the frame and when the boys are over we often go to the Grandpa Playlist so they can see Grandpa and we can remember the stories that went along with the pictures…

he was so funny… what  special man he was…

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