05 Thursday Dec 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, moments, remotes, right-handed, Shaw, Technology, tv, widow
we’ve had Shaw since the middle of September and I am slowly getting used to it…
one of the things I’ve noticed is how stiff all the buttons are on the remotes…
the one I use in the bedroom is stiff but works fine…
the one in the den appears to be made for a right-handed person…
no matter what I do it only turns on when I use my right hand, and even then, it doesn’t always work…
kind of frustrating;-(…
08 Friday Nov 2024
Posted in family, life, moments, Photography, retirement, technology, Uncategorized
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big girl pants, blessed, changeover, family, grandson, moments, pictures, printer, Shaw, Technology, widow, wifi
computer technology has not been my friend recently…
since our changeover to Shaw, in September, the printer hasn’t worked… it would not connect to the wifi…
my housemate tried numerous times to get it to connect, without success…
we ordered a special cord to connect the laptop directly to the printer… and that didn’t work either;-(…
just a few days ago, my housemate turned the router on and off a number of times and it finally connected… yay…
since then I have printed the big batch of photos that I’d been trying to get done for ages;-)… woohoo…
18 Friday Oct 2024
Posted in business, life, loss, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized, weather
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, electrical, Geeni, moments, motion sensor, Shaw, Technology, widow, wired
today we removed the wired Geeni motion sensing light/camera on the garage that no longer works since we changed to Shaw, sigh… this one, as well as two cameras inside the house, stopped working, but the one in the garden is still working perfectly…
it didn’t take too long, but dealing with any type of electrical always makes me nervous…
so far it looks good…
hoping that we can sell the one we took down as it worked perfectly;-)…
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…
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