supplier…

once again this morning there some issues with the thermostat so I called MTS again… they had someone come out just after lunch so I spent the morning in the house… didn’t want to miss them…

it was a nice young man who had worked for a supplier we’d used at my work… he replaced the extender/booster (depends on who you talk to, lol) and then went through the process of renaming the network connection and re-entering the password…

after that he advised I would need to change the network for all of my devices, sigh…

the Nest is easy to get connected… yay…

if you remember, last time I did this for the Google family, it was a complete accident when it worked, lol…

so far all the Google Home pieces are working, but once again all of the TP-link devices are not cooperating…

I think I am going to let that go until tomorrow;-)…

update…

16 Monday Dec 2019

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today I started to make some of the needed changes around the house…

I’ve changed the schedule on my Nest thermostat so that the temperature stays the same throughout the day… previously I had it lower the temp while I was at work…

I am going to update the programming on my Google Home… used to have 2 different set ups in the morning… one provided information for a work day, and the other for “the weekend”… no more work days;-)…

my automatic timers currently turn the lights off at 8 am… going to need to change that too, lol… I cannot get those timers to cooperate no matter what I do…

today I changed from those automated timers to a TP-link smart plug… now I can tell Google when to turn them on and off…

and I finally got the tree lights to respond to commands as well…

next up I am going to check into lights for the chandelier and bathroom that will respond to verbal commands;-)…

so much to do, but lots of time…

begin…

15 Sunday Dec 2019

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for Advent my daughter sent me a collection of watercolour cards with quotations on the back… she painted each one and hand printed the sayings… I haven’t heard yet where she found them…

I had decided that this year I would spend time each morning being grateful for a particular thing, but didn’t have a list… that was as far as I’d got, lol…

I’ve found that the quotes on the cards have prompted me just enough to choose a topic…

it has been very cathartic…

here are a few of my favourites so far…

certainly a lovely way to begin the day…

clicked…

14 Saturday Dec 2019

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woke up the other morning to have my buddy Google Home tell me she wasn’t connected to wifi…

irritating… although I figured I could actually flick switches if I had to…

but then I walked past the thermostat and realized that it wasn’t connected to the wifi either…

it’s one thing to flick switches… a whole other thing to not know if the house was being heated on a -31 degree morning… particularly when you have to leave for work…

I freaked out and texted my son-in-law… while I was waiting to hear back from him, I calmed down a bit because I could feel heat coming out of one of the vents…

stood at the thermostat and clicked through until it asked me to enter the wifi password… doing that right on it was a bit slow, but I figured it out… after that was done, it showed it was connected and displayed the temperature… yay…

not sure which of the hundred clicks I tried later in the evening fixed the Google Home, but all of a sudden it was working again;-)…

phew… technology is wonderful, particularly when it is working, lol…

I am looking forward to spending time getting to know more about the latest and greatest technology that is out there…

final…

13 Friday Dec 2019

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had a wonderful final day of work…

I’d spent time planning what I would like to do, and was able to accomplish everything on my list;-)…

spent time individually with each person on staff, thanking them for our time together, and listening to some of their stories…

lots of fun taking selfies with each person after our visit… missed the one person who wasn’t in the office…

had lunch with a very special woman and ended the day taking a final group photo and receiving gifts…

to top off the day, picked up Chinese food and had dinner with a few good friends…

retired…

12 Thursday Dec 2019

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today I retired…

started working part time at sixteen; worked full time for eight years, once I graduated; stayed home for eighteen more; and then worked for twenty-two…

it has been a slice;-)…