Weekly Musings of the 22nd

 

Hello family and friends!  Here we are at another week's end.  Just a few things this week but one that is kinda fun.  Of course, Monday was Victoria Day so we stuck around home although I did walk over to attend the morning Mass.  I like to do that when the time is changed to 10, I can make that time but anything earlier is pretty tough - LOL.  

So, Tuesday became errand morning and a pretty fine was it was although there is a funny tale about it.  I got the notice that my prescription was ready and as I was making my grocery list I wondered if I should write it down to pick it up as the pharmacy we use now is at the grocery store and an easy stop by.  Silly me said, nah I don't need to do that, I will remember.  Famous last words.

We did all the groceries, paid for them and as we loaded them in the car, I remembered the prescription and that I totally forgot about it.  Hubby stayed at the car as I dashed back into the store and hurried to the other side of the huge store to pick up my order.  Should have known better... always write things down.  The good thing was at least I remembered while we were still at the store and not all the way home.  

One thing we do as a couple since we are both so tough to buy for at anniversaries, birthdays and Christmas is pick a large ticket home item and that is our present to each other.  Sometimes the idea comes early in the year to us and other times it is later in the year.  This time it came early when once more our 2013 vista computer couldn't do one more thing.  The poor old thing has really done well and given it's all and we cannot say that we haven't gotten our full money's worth from it.  So our anniversary/birthday/Christmas gift this year was to get a new computer.  We went to the nearby Staples so I could show hubby what kind I really liked and it turned out it was on sale for one more day.  Well... we got it. 

Setup was easy and I am slowly working on it being more easy for the two of us to work on it.  Remember when you bought a computer and it had to go in the back for a couple of weeks while they set everything up?  Then you would come back to pick it up and could only then plug it in and use it?  Sometimes a guy had to come over to wire it into the internet and do the set up because  you couldn't possibly figure it out? Now you take it right away, it finds your internet and walks you through set up.  I do like Windows 11 for home, it is a lot more user friendly than Windows 10 (on hubby's laptop) ever was.  Our old faithful computer has now moved to hubby's room where he uses it for music, games and minor internet stuff.  Since his laptop became such a pain in the butt, we cleared it up and are recycling it and this one will take it's place.  At least until it will no longer turn on which could be years down the road considering how long it has lasted so far.  

The old vista one could not be used on many secure websites as they would block old programs as unsafe.  Now we can go to those sites once more, the store clerk said that banks would be doing the same soon and old vista wouldn't be able to go there either.  

So, that was the rest of the week tweaking and setting up and adjusting things.  Hubby did the same in his room so it would be easier for him as well.  He loves the new set up and I am loving the new computer.  

Reading-wise with all the computer set up I only got to one book.  It is the second one of the series.

These were a Bookbud deal and so worth getting.  It is a good read, I don't think I would have picked them up if not for Bookbud but for that price they are worth it.  

These are set during the time of St. Paul's travels and the people he met and spoke to.  How their lives were changed and what the times were like then.  

And that was our week that was, today we are off to the reserve for the monthly fill up and I am hoping that it hasn't gotten silly busy after the local news just had to do a story of the savings of filling up at the reserve.  Anyway, a few errands and then back to puttering here once more. 

 Have yourself a lovely weekend and new week ahead.