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grumpy…

04 Monday Nov 2024

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the desktop computer has been a bit grumpy for quite some time…

a month ago or so it just stopped working… I thought maybe it was the fan as I didn’t seem to be hearing any noise from it, so I turned it off and left it alone, lol…

recently my housemate discovered that it wasn’t working and checked on it…

of course it started up without a problem… it is like it knows someone who understands something is there so it behaves itself… but it was working very slowly…

next, I contacted my computer geek son-in-law to climb in and see what the problem was…

he got in there, looked around, and while he was looking it started to work at an excellent speed, sigh…

next, I will work on it for a while and see how it behaves…

harbinger…

31 Sunday Dec 2023

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on Thursday the blue screen of death showed up on the laptop…

apparently on Monday, when the camera kept failing during our video call, it was a harbinger of the computer’s end of life…

I spent quite a bit of time on Friday morning searching for the sales slip from January 2nd, 2020, when I purchased it in Ottawa, without success… I did find the record in my credit card statements, but after contacting Best Buy, discovered there was no extended warranty…

did some research and went to Best Buy… had a plan to purchase the same computer, but an updated version…

in the end I found a slightly higher quality machine and was happy they actually had it in the store… after consulting with my two computer geeks, brought it home and we spent time in the afternoon getting it filled with all “the stuff” I need…

the old machine fit beautifully into the box the new one came in, and will take a trip to my son-in-law to see if he is able to save anything on it…

I had some fun in the evening doing some personalization and making it my own, lol…

it will be interesting to see what I forgot I needed, lol…

fencing…

15 Thursday Jun 2023

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the latest project around the house has taken a little while… we began discussing it in February, lol…

the actual work started on Thursday, June 8th, when my grandson and son-in-law took down the back fence as well as the small one in the front yard…

it involved hammering, using the car jack and a great deal of muscle… once it was down, all the pieces were loaded into a truck… then we moved soil, cleaned up the leaves from the cedars and Virginia creeper, and filled many bags of yardwaste…

midway through the day the lumber was dropped off, but had to be brought onto the driveway a few pieces at a time, and by the end of the day we were worn out, lol…

on Friday, my grandson met our handyperson at the hardware store where they rented an auger and picked up a big bag of screws and nails…

they used more muscle to get the old holes redug and finished the day with all posts installed…

Sunday, the oldest dug up excess dirt around the shed while we waited for the rest of the crew to arrive, including one of his brothers…

they worked well together and got the back fence 99.9% finished, with a nice wide gate and the framework up for the front portion of fence…

on Wednesday and Thursday my oldest grandson put the finishing touches on the fencing and both sections look great…

so pleased with the final result as well as how smoothly the process went and what great help we had from everyone…

percolates…

15 Tuesday Nov 2022

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while my son-in-law was here at the end of August, we tried to install a tp-link switch in the computer room… an issue with wires meant we couldn’t do it…

it didn’t seem like that big a deal, so I left it alone…

today I removed the cover and put in one of the Philips Hue bulbs… the cover will have to stay off so that it gets sufficient air which is okay…

and, with this bulb I am able to dim the light which will be especially good at night when I am charging my Fitbit…

funny how a simple solution can be found if it percolates for a while, lol…

slamming…

15 Thursday Sep 2022

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while he was here, my son-in-law searched online for a spring for the patio door to replace the one which had broken ages ago…

he found one, ordered it, and it arrived on Friday, well after he left for home… there were no instructions, but I figured out how it should work…

it came with stickers to hold it to the wall and door, but they wouldn’t work for my situation…

I dug out two screws that were just the right size… from all the containers in the garage, lol… then I found a drill bit to start the holes so the wood wouldn’t split…

used the sticker as a template and made the holes… then was able to get the screws in and the hook as well…

it is working well, although it makes quite a slamming noise when it closes, so I will have to get used to that;-)…

going to be fun to see how the kids react😁…

drilling…

10 Saturday Sep 2022

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last week, the back on one of the lawn chairs came loose… I put in a few screws but the final hole didn’t have a spot for the screw to attach to…

I used the metal drill bit to make holes and then a screwdriver bit to put in the screws on each of the chairs…

my son-in-law had some helpful suggestions on the process to produce the holes…

those big girl pants seem to be fitting rather well these days…

wrestled…

09 Friday Sep 2022

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last Saturday, after I got home from dropping my son-in-law at the airport, I wrestled the mattress upstairs … it was on the pullout couch while he was here to make it more comfortable for him…

that returned the den to normal…

Sunday I lay a comforter on the bed, got the mattress on top and secured the four corners… then I was able to move the bed away from the wall and slip the mattress behind it…

sounds a lot easier than it actually was, lol…

pleased with the results and rather proud that I did it on my own…

those big girl pants;-)…

drywall…

07 Wednesday Sep 2022

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the last few days while my son-in-law was here were focused on the ceiling in the basement where drywall was being reinstalled…

it had been taken down a number of years ago when he installed a Nest thermostat for me on the main floor and new wires had to be run…

it was in the back area and didn’t bother me, but it was on his list to repair…

he did a great job and it looks quite wonderful now…

3M…

06 Tuesday Sep 2022

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my son-in-law completed a ton of big projects while he has been here from Ottawa…

a couple of the littlest ones have made me particularly happy…

I have had an extension cord and a single plug laying on the counter next to the stove and it was a pain… now there is a surge protector held up with 3M strips on the wall… so much tidier and more useful…

in the rolling cabinet that my beloved made, the tracks for the sliding doors kept falling down… now some 3M strips are holding them up where they belong…

little things can make such a big impact…