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13 Thursday Mar 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, butt, documents, email, help, moments, portal, taxes, Technology, time, widow

today’s project was to get all the tax documents gathered, scanned, and uploaded to the accountant portal…

seemed like a simple piece of work, but…

that business of changing my email address keeps biting me in the butt…

because it was changed, and currently, my new email isn’t available on the main computer, it involved a number of phone calls to get help…

eventually I was able to get into the portal, and after scanning all of the documents, upload everything…

I am always so pleased when everything is completed and on its way…

now to wait to hear back from them…

goodbyes…

13 Friday Sep 2024

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big girl pants, email, faster, goodbyes, internet provider, loyalty, moments, moved, MTS, Shaw, Technology, widow

I have been a loyal MTS customer for 51 years…

over the last number of years I have been able to have a bit of a discount but they have come to the place where they are not providing anymore subsidies…

on top of that, the area I live in can only get 50 mbps, which is not really sufficient for all my Google Home units, tv, streaming, video games, etc…

one of the biggest changes has been the fact that I needed to change my email address, which I have had since email began (when dinosaurs strolled the earth)… a new address was set up many months ago, and slowly I have shared that information with others… over the last few weeks we have notified all of the organizations I am connected to as well…

today, I changed my provider to Shaw, who apparently can give me 1000 mbps, for less money…

so I am saying my goodbyes to MTS…

I didn’t want to make the change but felt there were no options… it was difficult as I am loyal to companies that I am connected to, but unfortunately MTS no longer seem to value longtime customers…

Tony, the technician, was here for over three hours and came across a number of complications, of course… but he was pleasant and got it done…

the Googles are all happy and changed over without any action needed on our part, woohoo…

and, I am beginning to learn how to use the new tv remote;-)… those big girl pants, lol…

above is the pile of things that we now have to send to MTS, by mail apparently…

oops…

18 Friday Aug 2023

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BBBS, big girl pants, blessed, boxes, dates, email, giveaway, house, moments, oops, preparation, surprise, Technology, widow

last night I ran around the house gathering all the boxes for a Big Brothers Big Sisters pickup today…

had all the boxes in the dining room and marked as required…

set the alarm to be sure I was up at 7:30 to put the boxes on the front steps…

made sure they were all on the steps before 8 but then when the boxes weren’t picked up by noon, I went back and reread the email from them…

apparently they are coming next Friday, not today… oops…

so I went out and brought all the boxes back in, lol…

playlist…

07 Monday Dec 2020

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Advent, always learning, big girl pants, blessed, email, lights, moments, music, playlist, relaxing, Technology, treats, widow

one of my advent treats was an email (31 Days of Gifts) that comes every day with different things in it…

the second day included a Spotify playlist…

I spent a lovely evening sitting in the living room, enjoying the tree lights and listening to the playlist, as I read a novel on my tablet…

the best thing about the list is that it showed me the option of where to play it… previously, I was only able to play on the device in the room where I was… now I can play it anywhere or everywhere…

sounds lovely when it is playing all through the main floor…

technology;-)…

station…

02 Wednesday Jan 2019

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, email, NASA, sky, station, Technology, view, widow

I get an email whenever the space station flies over the house…

there will be a week or so when the messages come once or twice a day and then weeks go by with no notifications…

I’ve had a number of emails over the last week, but as the fly past has been first thing in the morning I haven’t gotten up to look for the station…

but the emails last night mentioned two fly-bys this morning… one at 6:21 and the second at 7:55, which is just about when I leave for work…

so I headed outside to watch for it… stayed out for about five minutes but didn’t spot it… think it might have been behind the neighbour’s tree…

it is always exciting when I do see it;-)…

scheme…

07 Tuesday Aug 2018

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big girl pants, blessed, email, friend, gift, lunch, pashmina, retirement, scheme, treat, widow

a couple of weeks ago I was scheduled to have lunch with a friend…

this person always arrives early wherever we are going to meet…

usually I email the night before or early the day of, but this time I didn’t…

I made it to the restaurant and my friend wasn’t there… I waited about half an hour, ordered takeout and headed back to the office…

sent an email just wanting to be sure they were okay…

later that evening I received a message that they had just not realized what day it was, lol… something about retirement and not checking calendars… so happy that they were fine…

when I arrived back at the office this morning, after being off for a week, I discovered this lovely package…

it was a sorry I missed lunch gift… so not necessary, but what a lovely treat…

it is often chilly in the office so this pashmina will be a lovely way to stay warm on those cool days…

and, it fits into my office decorating scheme perfectly;-)…

I truly am blessed…

iPhone…

05 Sunday Jul 2015

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battery, big girl pants, email, iPhone, Technology, wasps

quite the day… got this shot of the wasps building a nest on my deck…

  
was able to get really close as they weren’t moving much… cool this morning after yesterday’s heat and humidity…

walked to the grocery store to get hamburger for tonight’s dinner with the kids and as I was walking up the street to the house reached for my phone to take a picture of the haze and couldn’t find it…

kind of freaked out thinking I might have dropped it in the store… rushed into the house and tried phoning it before jumping into the car and racing back to the store… and there it was, singing in my bag, just not in its usual place… hiding under my OneTouch Mini…

took a few minutes to calm down, lol… I am rather meticulous about putting things away in the same place in whatever bag I have so this doesn’t happen often… thank goodness…

my daughter and I went out to get some fresh veggies and stopped and picked up some groceries for their family…

when we were home a bit later I mentioned how my phone was running out of charge much more quickly these days…

she had a look at it and then checked to see when my contract was up… at 4:45 she discovered that it was already  up and at 5:00 we were at the phone store in the mall:-)…

got an iPhone 6… didn’t take too long and it is saving me $5 or so a month…

because I don’t use iCloud to back my phone up, they weren’t able to set it up for me…

had to check out all the phone stores to get a case… eventually got two…

  
this one and a clear one which I will put one of my photos in…

came home and my daughter started backing it up… but it took longer than they were here for, so she told me what to do when it finished…

  
took some great pictures with it but, in the very long and convoluted process to get it set up, had to delete them all… 

but the sun was really red as it was going down tonight, lol…

well, it is almost set up, sigh… I am on hold with MTS because I can’t remember that password… looks like everything else is good to go…

who knew it would take minutes to buy and then hours to set up, lol…

technology at its finest…

technology…

29 Tuesday Jul 2014

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cell phone, email, encyclopedia, internet, Technology

been thinking about technology quite a bit lately…

when it works it makes everything go well… when it doesn’t it makes life so frustrating…

the changes over the last few years have been amazing…

can you even remember when you didn’t have a smartphone… or a laptop and/or tablet…

we purchased our first cell phone when our older daughter was sixteen as she was taking a road trip with a bunch of her friends… we wanted her to be connected if she needed help or had trouble with the van… that phone was large and cumbersome and didn’t work everywhere on the main highway…

and here I am, writing my blog on my iPhone and texting with my daughter at the same time…

earlier my other daughter was sending me pictures from Montreal where they are visiting for a few days…

while we were in a shoe store, in Fargo, North Dakota, the clerk went online and ordered shoes that they didn’t have in the store, and had them delivered to us at the border…

fifteen years ago email was just becoming a new tool… cannot imagine being without it now… and, on the phone, as well as the desktop and laptop and maybe even the tablet…

all of my kids watch movies on the computer…

people complete forms on their home computer and submit them online, or use an iPad when they arrive at the office… I remember trying to decipher handwriting and guessing what a name or phone number was supposed to be…

the internet has changed our lives… not sure if young people know what an encyclopedia is, lol…

I need to remember all the great things that technology helps us with, particularly when some of it might not be working at its best…

20140729-222009-80409601.jpgview of the pond tonight…

keep track…

08 Saturday Mar 2014

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computer, desktop, email, hacked, keep track, laptop, url

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…

bendy busses…

14 Tuesday Jan 2014

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bendy busses, big girl pants, email, front page, newspaper, special moments, synchronicity, text

just looked up and saw a picture of George and I in Cyndi and Ron’s house in Courtenay… we had a lovely visit on that trip…

made me laugh because I was just thinking about bendy busses… and Cyndi…

I rarely read the newspaper, although it sits right at my desk every day… for some reason this morning I looked over the front page and saw this…

bendy busses coming here...

bendy busses coming here…

the first time I saw one of these busses was in 2000 when Cyndi and I were in Chicago for a church event about Families… she saw the busses and went a little bit crazy about them…

so this morning, I took a quick picture of the front page and emailed it to her… one doesn’t text in the morning because that might wake her up, but emailing is okay…

she responded within a few minutes saying she was actually riding on a bendy bus in Ottawa as she read my email…

I still haven’t ridden on one… maybe they will run along Portage and I can take one home one night in the spring, when the weather is nice…

synchronicity is an amazing thing…

made me smile for quite a while after, and even as I write this I have a smile on my face… one of those special moments…

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