I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
Golden we get some winters with more ice than snow, the worst is ice with like an inch of fluffy snow on it, so you can't see the ice. It's so dangerous. As long as I keep on moving and don't listen to couch and cosy blanket, that keeps telling me to come sit down with them, 😆 SAD is pretty good.
Peasuep, hope your day is going ok, I know hubby had an appointment today?
Margaret, I had no clue anyplace was 107 now. 😱
Margaret, a friend in Aus has been lamenting the heat. Wish we could split the difference.
Margaret, I'm gonna stop complaining about the cold now
😂. Every time I feel like complaining I'll think of you.
Golden APFM called me too! Maybe I clicked on something I shouldn’t have?
I thought, well, yeah, could be nice to have some help looking for placement until the guy on the other end started asking for personal financial information. I told him “thanks, but I don’t think this relationship I going to work out” and hung up.
Nacy, things went pretty smoothly for the part of the neuro-psyche evaluation I was allowed to sit in on. It was cumbersome in that the doctor would ask DH a question, wait for an answer, then look at me for confirmation or rebuttal. It was a bit uncomfortable. I don’t know how the testing part went but DH said he thinks he failed.
We won’t get his findings for a couple weeks.
ana - well done. I like it! One of my techniques is to play the doddery old woman and keep asking them to repeat themselves. I repeat back to them what I "think" they said and ask them to explain, interspersed with, "You said what?" Then I go for the kill and get very assertive and tell them very clearly that I'm not interested and hang up. It gives me some satisfaction.
nacy - ice with snow on top is the worst. Cleats do help.
psue -no unsolicited packages here but lots of packages. Finally getting he little things I want for here. You were very polite to the APFM caller. It will be interesting to get the results of the eval.
Worked something out about the humidity. I didn't close my front door properly so it swung open and I didn't notice for a while. The humidity dropped like a bullet.to 15. There is always cool air coming in under the door. So I rolled up a rug and placed it as a barrier and the humidity started rising. Another Amazon purchase is on it's way - a draft stopper. There are always many small things (and some big ones) to buy when you move.
Those calls stopped too.
He didn't even HAVE an online account with Social Security until I made one for him LAST WEEK. He's been on Social Security for EIGHT YEARS!!!!!!! sjfkhkdjhfjhsjkfdhjsdhfjdh My sibling WILL NOT HELP because they 'literally can't deal with him' (their words).
I'm already tired of being tech support and he's only lived near me for a couple of months. UGH. END ME NOW, PLEASE. 😂
Our business purchased our first tower computer, a Mac, in 1989.
I don't think that age is the dominant factor in adapting to new technology (but cognitive decline def is). I think if one has not been keeping up continually all along, it is just so much harder to then "jump in" because of the learning curve. Our parent's generation (and some in mine, I'm 65 boomer) still chose to remain tech illiterate. Sometimes it's the cost. I greatly benefited from being in the graphics/marketing business and therefore always needing to use a Mac (and for many years employed a tech person from whom I learned a lot). I still am the "tech help" in our house. It takes a lot of time but I have more of that now.
My 95-yr old Mom finally broke her flip phone last year and I opted for a RAZ mobility phone. Looks like a smart phone but I control everything from the app on my own phone. The biggest challenge has been getting her to not grab the phone by the screen and inadvertently "thumb dialing" her contacts. But I can control when those contact buttons are active, so problem solved. Many years ago I gave her my old iPad on which to play games, and she loves it, but still sometimes manages to "break" it. She's called me at 11pm once to come fix it. Nope.
A thing that gives me joy is to go to our Apple store and see all the silver-haired tech employees working there.
I think this is very true. Being a single person with no kids I could have very easily kept on living without tech in the 90's and beyond, but thankfully I had nephews that needed help with their homework so I was introduced to Windows and Word et al. and have tried to keep somewhat current since then. Even so I dread every update and new technological innovation because I find learning new systems is increasingly nerve wracking.
The bipolar North East!
We probably dodged a tech support nightmare.
My whine: all the work (that I can afford) is done at my house. Whatever $ is left is going to go to MC so nothing better break around here!
I usually put my search into a search engine (Google) first, then click on "videos" tab. That will pull up any videos on the topic, even those not found on YouTube.
Was suppose to take mom out to do little shopping tomorrow, but I think sence he came down with it yesterday, I'm safest to take her out today, before I may be getting it.
psue - got the door lock replaced. Long story but the one we had was a temp replacement and it was time to do it properly. I am at that phase of moving in where, about a year later, I have things pretty well where I want them, and have lived with them for a while, and now see adjustments I want to make. Lots of little things to do.
I agree about google being your best friend when it comes to computers. I never met a virus I couldn't get rid of due to help via google. That was the old days. Don't get viruses these days (hope I haven't jinxed myself). I'm not fond of videos. Just give me a list of what to do.