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volume…

25 Saturday Feb 2023

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

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big girl pants, blessed, control, moments, MTS, remote, Technology, tv, volume, widow

when the MTS people were here the other day, they replaced the remote for the bedroom tv…

the good news is that now I won’t need to press my finger through the remote to make some of the actions happen, lol…

at the last minute they mentioned that the new remote didn’t turn the tv on or off, or change the volume…

really 🤪…

the good news is that Google Home can turn it on and off and change the volume level…

shampooing…

13 Monday May 2019

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

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arm, big girl pants, elbow, phone, physiotherapist, remote, shampooing, shoulder, sore, widow

for the last few months my arm has been sore… between my elbow and shoulder… it was particularly bothersome when shampooing my hair…

I decided to see my physiotherapist once I got home from Maui, because it seemed to be getting worse, or not getting better…

while we were away, I mentioned this to my daughter…

she shared that one of her colleagues had the same problem and had just discovered that it was from using her phone…

oh dear…

while we were gone I didn’t use my phone nearly as much as normal, and it did appear to be improving…

since I’ve been home I’ve cut back on my phone usage… not near as many games of solitaire, lol…

still doing better, but I think the tv remote isn’t helping, lol…

wifi…

01 Wednesday Mar 2017

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big girl pants, cell phone, internet, MTS, remote, widow, wifi

just spent over half an hour on the phone with an MTS internet technician…

trying to figure out why my wifi keeps dropping from my phone…

been worried that I am going to get an ugly bill at the end of the month…

the person on the phone was very attentive and ran a number of tests as we talked…

a few weeks ago someone had called and offered a higher speed internet for six months at no charge and I had agreed to try it… the problems with my wifi seemed to start just after that…

after the testing it appears that the internet isn’t the cause of the problem…

but he couldn’t figure out what the problem is… he did mention lots of possibilities…

so, now I need to go to the MTS store and have them check out my phone…

way too much contact with MTS this week, sigh…

the new remote still doesn’t work with my tv and I’m supposed to ask for an older version of the remote…

we shall see…

learning…

17 Thursday Mar 2016

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beloved, big girl pants, car, clock, growing, learning, proud, remote, widow, Wii

been learning new things in the last few days and am pretty pleased with myself, lol…

I figured out how to change the clock in the car… 

 

pretty simple actually… I would never have been able to do that before…

even better was the fact that I sorted out the remote in the basement… 

  
there are three down there but the middle one is the special one which does everything except pour tea… 

of course the problem has always been that if it wasn’t set on the tv I could never get it back there… it is also connected to the Wii and a video player and Netflix and I’m not sure what else… 

the little boys change it over to the Wii sometimes and forget to put it back… then I struggle for ages trying to get the morning show to come on that I watch as I walk on the treadmill… end up calling my kids to walk me through the process to get it working again…

this time my son-in-law thought there might be something wrong with the remote itself…

after a bit of work I figured out how to open the back, find appropriate batteries, change them and get the cover back on…

then it couldn’t find the tv… finally figured out that I needed to use one of the other remotes to set the input to the proper thing…

and it worked… did it all myself…

my beloved would have been so proud…

frustration…

29 Tuesday Dec 2015

Posted by sulis303 in family, health, life, nature, technology

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big girl pants, Birchwood Toyota, car, frustration, locked, remote, Shadow, starter

trying to decide if I am just untrainable or whether Shadow is testing me…

  
these don’t look that difficult to work…

unfortunately they are proving very uncooperative for me… frustrating…

I had been back to Birchwood Toyota and someone walked me through the process and advised me how they should work… was told that I could use either one to open the doors… this was after the front door would not open at all the day after I brought her home…

twice today I started the car remotely, and then could not open the doors… only way I could get in was to turn it off, at which point the door locks worked perfectly…

sigh… I called and spoke with the guy at the dealership and he will check with the installers and give me a call back, likely tomorrow…

might have something to do with the valet key which my kids use… 

hoping the problem gets solved soon… starting to feel like a remote starter wasn’t such a great investment…

  

door…

10 Thursday Dec 2015

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beloved, big girl pants, door, key, remote, Shadow, starter

excited to see the deck covered in a fresh dusting of snow when I opened the back door this morning…

  
it always looks so beautiful when everything is white for that short period of time…

left work a bit early and drove to the edge of the city to take the car back to the dealership…

have been very impressed with their assistance since I purchased the car… 

on Sunday, when I was in a parking lot after shopping, the driver’s door wouldn’t open… at first I thought I was using the wrong button… now there is the key with the door open and close spots and the remote starter with open and close buttons…  

tried them all, many times, but nothing would open the driver’s door… eventually phoned my daughter who suggested I go in and open it from the other side… after that it seemed to work fine… of course the worry is that it might happen again…

called the next day and my sales guy suggested I bring it in so they could check it out…

he wasn’t there today, but the Sales Manager met with me and had a look… of course, everything worked perfectly… we also went over how the remote starter worked… I think I get it now, lol… he advised that I could use either of the buttons to open the door…

he gave me his direct phone number and email address and said if it happened again to call him personally and he would arrange for a rental car and they would test the car until it happened again so they knew what it was and could fix it…

they really do want everything to go well…

it was overcast all day and when I was walking back to the car Shadow really looked purple although the picture doesn’t show it quite as well…

  
thinking my beloved would be proud of me as I slip those big girl pants on more easily each day…

delicious…

25 Tuesday Aug 2015

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beans, beets, big girl pants, blanch, delicious, remote, timer, tv, yellow

last night I prepared another five pounds of beans… this time, yellow ones…

  
the great news was that I was sitting on my bed watching tv as I prepped them… my son-in-law came by and replaced the dead one and then carefully explained how this particular one works… let’s hope I remember all the instructions, lol…

can even set the sleep timer from the main remote control… for the previous one I had to use two remotes… I am very happy…

got my big pasta pot and blanched all of the beans for three minutes…

  
not sure why I didn’t use this pot for the green beans… sped up the process nicely…

  
cold bath and then into bags…

  
filled eleven bags and also had a lovely bowl filled for my supper…

  
they were very tasty and I also had fresh beets… such a delicious time of the year…

remote…

17 Wednesday Jul 2013

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big girl pants, George, light in pond, remote, solar lights

had to giggle when the light was installed in the pond…

came with a remote…

George loved remotes… he had quite a fabulous one for all his equipment in the basement… I couldn’t even get the tv to turn on with it, lol…

now I have this cute little waterproof job which I am stroll trying to figure out…

the solar lights I put around the pond are looking very nice…

took a few pictures of the light in the pond but it is hard to get a good representation… maybe I’ll try with the actual camera tomorrow…

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