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morning…

30 Thursday Jul 2015

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rather busy day… up early this morning to get the boxes out for pick-up…

  
ran over to the Mall to have my iPhone checked out… battery is barely making it through the day which isn’t so good for a brand new phone… went to MTS who sent me to the Apple Store… served quickly in both stores, and they offered up a few suggestions which might make a difference… have to back everything up and go back so they can reset it which may also make it better… technology is wonderful when it works…

got home and my son-in-law was here replacing the metal stringers on the deck stairs… he noticed a while ago that they were rusting out…

  
look great and feel much more sturdy…

after lunch we sat in the garden for a few minutes and I noticed this morning glory bloom…

  
been thinking about July of 2010 when I was in hospital… it was supposed to be our vacation so George came to spend time every day while he was off work… he knew how much I love morning glories and every morning before he came, he would go out into the garden and count how many of the flowers were blooming… occasionally he would take a picture for me as well… 

I found this blossom which should open tomorrow…

  
was testing my lounger out when the sky got a bit dark…

  
just got in and it poured for a couple of minutes… after supper I went out to write my blog, but it was kind of chilly… came in and all of a sudden it was pouring…

 
the mandevilla is covered with flowers and buds… looking forward to the morning glory beside it starting to flower as well…

iPhone…

05 Sunday Jul 2015

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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…

fun…

06 Wednesday May 2015

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had a great evening…

friend came over, brought dinner, cookies and petunias… with an appetizer of chips, lol…

  
after supper we worked on a database program… had to work in the living room using the power cord that has the three-prong plugs… had a computer and a printer hooked up…

great fun as we learned what it could do, while entering information… still need to figure out a few things…

really enjoy working with new technology and helping others figure it out..

fitbit…

05 Tuesday May 2015

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this afternoon I ordered a set of straps for my fitbit… 

this was rather fun because I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time…

I had purchased a violet strap which has developed a tear so I’ve been wearing my black strap, but really missing the pretty one…

  
when my Ottawa kids were here last June, my son-in-law picked up a power bar with USB ports in it… he attached it to the wall by the couch in the living room and tied up all the cord… very tidy…

  
I use it all the time to charge my fitbit, and even my phone when I need it to be on the main floor…

my fitbit has been a great help for me… since I got it I’ve tried to make sure I met my step goal every day… since my diabetes diagnosis it has helped keep track of other exercise and I have combined it with MyFitnessPal which records my food intake…

technology is pretty cool…

sirens…

24 Tuesday Mar 2015

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left the office at one today, for an appointment…

was going to a place I hadn’t been before so I was a bit worried about time…

fairly early in the drive I heard sirens and eventually spotted the fire truck behind me… vehicles were moving over and trying to get out of the way and once it had gone past, everyone tried to get back into the lane they had been in… that doesn’t always happen which can be really frustrating… some people just don’t want to let others back in, sigh…
close to where I needed to turn off the main drag, another fire truck shows up in the rear view mirror… had to pull over two lanes to get out of the way and then it goes by and turns to the right… practically in front and on top of me…
thanks to an app on my phone, I found my way to just where I needed to be, right on time, even with fire truck interference…
do love technology when it works, lol…
little more technology and here’s the result…
  

technology…

18 Sunday Jan 2015

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today technology and I were not so friendly…

the laptop wasn’t working…

couldn’t access a software program for my blood sugar meter…

purchased a digital picture frame and it didn’t want to work…

tried to pick up a battery for the camera remote control, but, of course, they were on back order… hopefully the shop across from the office will have the appropriate one and I can get this done tomorrow…

but… after supper everyone was playing on some piece of technology, lol…

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and then tonight I discovered that there was no fish food… the container that I thought was full was empty…

apparently I will be stopping on my way home tomorrow to pick some up… bad fish mother…

bright…

29 Monday Dec 2014

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another sunshiny day…

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stayed in for breakfast… felt like –41 Celsius outside…

went out for lunch with a friend and his three children… busy, lol…

one of my gifts was a light that I can turn on with an app on my iPhone… besides white, it can also turn any colour I’d like… guess which colour I’ve made it so far…

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in the background is my new picture which the kids picked for me at IKEA… it looks lovely against the purple wall…

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I do love technology…

project…

27 Saturday Dec 2014

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last year I made bookmarks using pictures I took at Chihuly Garden and Glass when we were in Seattle following our Alaskan cruise… the other side was the word gratitude with the names of things and people for which/whom I am thankful…

many of my colleagues still have it up in their offices… felt I needed to do something equally as nice this year, lol…

finally came up with the idea of note cards using some of my photographs…

spent a lovely time looking through pictures I’ve taken in 2014 and picked about thirty… used Publisher to produce 15 pages with two pictures on each…

went to my buddies at Staples and they printed, cut and scored them… picked up envelopes and folded and stuffed them…

put five together and wrapped them with ribbon… then I put nice labels on them and they were all done…

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when I gathered them up into the groups of five, I think I managed to make each group different… quite the feat…

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everyone liked them so I am happy… it is such fun to make something for others… particularly with help from technology…

taxis…

27 Thursday Nov 2014

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been in a number of taxis lately…

continue to wonder how they can fiddle with all the equipment in their vehicles…

most of us aren’t allowed to text, or even pick our phones up while we are driving…

I am nervous when I’m at a stoplight and want to take a picture…

I have been watching them… they are connected to their dispatcher with a screen on the dash and have their hands at this piece of technology very often…

they also have GPS that they are looking at as they drive, which apparently they are allowed…

interesting…

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technology…

02 Thursday Oct 2014

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had a wonderful discussion with a couple of people as we shared ways that technology can help us…

talked about apps that make it possible to use your phone to do things more easily… and apps that help you streamline your email… energizing…

then, when I got home, I discovered that the tv in the bedroom had no signal… ignored it for a while hoping it would get its signal back… had a nap, tried it again… still nothing…

checked the main floor tv and it worked perfectly… went to the basement and turned the router off and on and came back upstairs… and the tv worked…

then I tried to send an email from my phone… and it wouldn’t connect…

shut down and restarted the computer… still nothing…

called MTS and went through the whole process again…

got a great workout running up and down the stairs, lol…

finally everything is working…

IMG_8604.JPGan early morning glory today…