Hello, villagers ~
We have had wild weather swings here for a few days, and I have a raging cold.
Saturday outdoors was beautiful with sunshine and temps in the upper 70s.
Unfortunately, I was stuck indoors at sewing group meetings.
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Skippable rant: New pres made a big deal last week when she sent out the agenda for the board meeting that everyone must come prepared because she wanted to finish in an hour or less. The agenda she put together was a full page single spaced. Then she kept going off topic and chatting, and the meeting took almost 2 1/2 hours. After the meeting when we were putting away chairs, she complained again about how long the meeting lasted and we have to make them shorter. I just smiled and nodded and kept my mouth shut. I did a lot of that during both meetings Saturday. I really don't like the switch to the early morning meeting with all the members on Saturday followed by the board meeting.
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By the time I finally got home and DH took me out to eat lunch (at 3 pm) the day was mostly shot and I could feel my throat getting scratchy and my sinuses started to bother me.
DH waited until Saturday late afternoon to open the 2nd computer box that we had bought Tuesday night. He said he was waiting to see if I had problems setting up mine.
To which I said,
But you researched them for months, dude, I thought we bought what you wanted. He replied that he wanted the warning if Win8 was going to make me tear out my hair.
He knew right away that something was wrong with his. He said as soon as he lifted it out of the box, he heard something
slide and thunk. I said
stop, don't do anything more with it but put it back in the box, I'll put my shoes on and we can take it right back to the store.
It was such a nice day, at least we were able to go for a little drive together. I stayed in the car and read the newspaper while he took the box into the store. Luckily the store still had 1 of the same unit on the shelf so they let him exchange.
Too bad that after messing with it Saturday night and all day yesterday, he was still not able to connect to the wifi. My tower is connected to the modem directly via cable, and my netbook with Win7 has had no trouble with the connection.
From what he described, the problem is that the space where Win8 wants him to type the passkey is too short. We can't figure out why they would do that, since we did not change the passkey from what came with the modem. He's hoping someone he works with can give advice today.
Yesterday it poured rain for hours and hours. Last night we had long thunderstorms. Overnight it snowed. Today is dark and gloomy and cold.
I'm having trouble getting any work done with a cold. Even with otc meds, my nose won't stop running and my right eye keeps watering so it's hard to read. A bit of a cough. I'm spoiled, I haven't had a cold this bad for a long time. Oh well, at least it isn't the flu!
I was able to take a nap for a couple of hours, and I think it helped. Must s2s and then I need to run a few errands here in Tiny Town.
And once again, I will be figuring out our taxes at the very last minute tonight. Sigh.
