20 Sunday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, garden, inside, moments, morning glories, nature, smoky, tv, weather, widow, windows
another smoky day here…
all the windows were closed overnight and all of today… I miss the fresh air…
was only outside for a few minutes this morning to check on the morning glories;-)…
rest of the day was in front of the tv, lol… athletics, gymnastics, and binge watching shows…
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;-(…
13 Tuesday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, casting, coverage, moments, night and day, Olympics, sports, Technology, time, tv, wake-ups, widow
well, I have emerged from the Olympics cycle…
I have watched all kinds of sports, some for the first time…
as mentioned previously, I like to watch in real time and managed to do that for a good portion of the sports I was interested in… although I did sleep through one of the medals that Canada won, lol… it meant a lot of 2:30 and 4:00 am wake-up’s…
my hope for every event that I watch is that each person does their best and I like flipping between channels, if I can, to hear commentary from different points of view…
I am less interested in team sports such as soccer or basketball or football… and I’m not too fond of fighting in any of its numerous forms…
the technology at these games had some interesting highlights… I was particularly taken with the cauldron;-)…
I am happy that this portion is over and I have a few weeks before the Paralympics begin…
hopefully there will be lots of it on tv and Gem as well;-)…
03 Saturday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, casting, learning, live, moments, night, Olympics, Technology, tv, widow
I’ve been spending a lot of time in the bedroom, lol…
during the Olympics I try to watch as many live events as possible… so this year that means quite a lot of middle of the night viewing…
and, if what is on isn’t one of my favourites, I cast shows to the tv… currently that only happens on the bedroom tv…
I do love casting… particularly as I’ve finally figured out how to do it easily, lol…
I’ve been able to watch surfing, sailing, equestrian, rowing, and trampoline that way…
I am sure I could win a medal if watching the Olympics was a sport🤪…
25 Saturday Feb 2023
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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…
22 Wednesday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, connecting, Google Home, grandson, internet, moments, Technology, tv, weather, widow, wires
my goodness, seemed like a very long day…
MTS came around noon and spent two hours outside (in the very cold weather)… going back and forth many times between a ladder up to wires in the back lane, through the snow, and up the side of the house… eventually, they made a connection which should double the speed of my internet….
then they spent over an hour in the house changing the router and the boxes for the TVs…
none of it seemed to go smoothly, lol…
after they left, we spent another hour updating all of the Google Home devices and we still have a few that are not cooperating…
25 Friday Feb 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, happy, moments, Olympics, pvr, sorted, Technology, tv, widow
I’ve been having trouble with my PVR for a few weeks…
it has been telling me that it was full and would delete things I hadn’t seen…
this has happened before and it had been difficult to get the problem sorted out so I wasn’t looking forward to calling them…
I waited until the Olympics were over because I didn’t want any problems while they were on… so that meant that every day I would have to stay up until I finished watching anything saved… made for some long nights…
I was pleasantly surprised with how well the interaction went… took about half an hour to get the process completed… the person on the phone was able to do most of the work from a distance, with me pushing a few buttons at my end…
so happy it is fixed… we will see if it does it again, lol…
10 Monday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, game, moments, Technology, tricky, tv, widow
the tv in the den has been playing a game with me…
I turn it off… and then it often turns itself back on…
but it doesn’t do it every time…
and not always right away…
I might have left and suddenly notice there is a light in the space…
tricky…
11 Monday Jan 2021
15 Wednesday Apr 2020
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Assiniboine Park Zoo, big girl pants, blessed, casting, Facebook Live, iPhone, learning, photos, Technology, tv, view, widow
happy that I figured out how to cast Facebook Live onto my tv…
I’m sure others have been doing this for ages, lol… I’ve done it a few times with my photos but not often enough to remember how to do it easily;-)…
I think it is funny what things I can do without a problem and others which I’m not comfortable with just yet…
I’ve enjoyed watching the programs that Assiniboine Park and Zoo have been presenting… they are on Facebook Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1 pm CDT… nice to see the animals close up and learn some interesting things about how the keepers work with them…
much nicer on the tv screen than on my phone;-)…
gonna keep practicing…
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