WET PHONE SAGA CONTINUES

The phone saga has been resolved.   The Verizon sales person did say when you drop a phone in water to IMMEDIATELY remove the battery and place the  phone in a bag of dry rice and leave it there overnight. 

Somehow I have doubts about this technique after have the phone go through a complete wash cycle is right.  Some times it works but most of the time is does not.  It is good to know, but I do not plan to wash a phone again.  Of course, I had not planned to wash it the first time.

It was getting to the time where I would have been eligible for a new one, so I did just that.  On Verizon they have a backup assistant, which is wonderful and no cost.   You just transfer your contacts to the new phone.  Poof there they appear.

With all the phone services out there I have never had a problem with Verizon.  Although there are a few dead spots in the wilds of upstate central Pennsylvania.

WHATS UP?

It has been almost two weeks since I have posted.   What have I been doing?   I have been trying to figure it out myself.....

Yesterday I really had a bummer of a day.   I killed my Smartphone.......it was not an easy thing to do but I did it.    This was the first phone I have killed by negligence.   How, I washed my winter jacket and it was in the pocket.   I tried to dry it will a hair dryer, but that did not work.

So, today, I have to go to the store and see about getting a new one.   What a day,   I was really a "DAMN" moment when I realized what I did.  I guess I should have kept the jacket dirty.   Now the secret is out and when my sibs read this they will  harass  me for awhile.  In our family it is better to own up to your faux pas and get on with it.

I have been spending a lot of time searching for dead people, mostly the family ancestors.   This has gone from an addiction to an obsession.   Or perhaps the other way around?   I have been learning a lot about history as I weave my my way through looking for people back in time.

My greatest excitement is finding records from hundreds of years ago.    The vital records keep by the government are a more recent thing.  When you go back in time the records were kept by various churches. When I find something it is probably a birth or marriage record and in the state of Pennsylvania it will be tax records, deeds or wills.  

That is it for today, which by the end of it will prove to be expensive....


 

VALENTINES DAY

 

I looked at the dates of my last posting and it really has been a while.   What have I been doing?   I went to visit my daughter and we spent five days just bumming around and doing some shopping.   We ate lunch out a lot….It is nice now that she has regular days off and can do things other than work during the week.

I am happy to report that Lucy, the cat, is well on the mend.   She had the remaining of her tubes removed and is currently sleeping under the coffee table.   Lucy still has the e-collar on so she does not lick her incision.   Hopefully that will be healed in a few days.   A few clumps of matted fur has appeared because she has not been able to groom herself.   Lucy always is perfectly groomed, and her appetite is back to normal.

We have been getting threats of snow and ice, but none of it has materialized today.   My worry is rain turning to ice.   The winter has not ben bad or Western PA.   I look at the snow pictures of Eastern Europe and I am amazed at the snow that appears to be about eight foot deep, with deep slices in it in the process of plowing the roads.   

This evening we went to Outback Steakhouse, we got there at about 4:15 and it was already crowded.   When we left about an hour later it was standing room only for dinner.   We went early because neither of likes to wait.  The steak was good and it is nice to go out to eat.

I have not planned anything for tomorrow but I am willing to be it may involve cleaning up.

INTERESTING WEEK

 

This has been a very interesting week.  On Saturday night Lucy our cat vomited, which is not quite unusual in our pets.   Usually they will do that on the newest and lightest color rug.

Sunday she was refusing to eat or drink at all.  Monday off  to the vet for her.  The long and the short of it was the cat had a bowel obstruction due to a fur ball.   I am glad I did not have to observe that. 

The cat has surgery and we brought her home today.   She is wearing a Elizabethan collar and has to restrict her activity, no playing, running or stairs.    She has a special formula for awhile and I hope soon she decided to ear her food.   

Currently she is asleep on the couch.  She looks happy to be home and there went the Income Tax Refund.

FINISHED PURGING THE BASEMENT

 

I can say now that the metamorphous of the basement is complete, unless I decided to go through a Round Two.   That may happen but it will not be anytime soon.  I think I have just exhausted myself mentally with the past few weeks of work.

Now I have to scan and copy the remains of our parents paper lives.  It is amazing what I have found, things I did not know exist because some of the boxes have been downstairs before I started on my genealogical quest.  

The things are all in good shape and that is because I have always had a dehumidifier, and kept the basement at about 60% humidity.   My next project will be to set up the computer and scanner in a place it will not be disturbed by cats.   The cats are getting elderly and are not really interested in jumping up, or perhaps, the have a bit of arthritis and are unable to jump.  

My long term plan  will be to tackle the attic next, but that will be in the spring because of the heat up in that space.   I do not know how hot it gets but I made a mistake one year and tried to store a few Christmas candles and they morphed into a blob of melted wax.   Anything stored after that fiasco is now virtually indestructible.

STILL IN THE CLEANING MODE

 

This weeks activities still involve even more cleaning.   We moved a lot of assorted things from the top of some cabinets and made an area, about six feet long, for Chuck to have a work area.   After all the things that were there were gone I was able to clean the windows and wash the panels for the window.

I took my books to Half Price Books and got a few dollars.  I know that is not a lot of money and actually they do not pay very much for your books.   I was glad to get them out of the house.  The main problem with those books is the fact that they were old and the lady said she would recycle most of them.

Also a stop at the thrift store for a drop off and then again home.

I still have more to do, and then there is the pseudo attic and it has boxes too.   I think a person should move every five years or so because there is nothing like a move to get a person to clean out their “special stuff.”

BASEMENT PURGING

 

This week I have started on moving things to their new final destination.   I took two printers and some random cords (where are the items to which they were attached?) 

Other things were clothing, and sort of odds and ends, plastic ware, cups and glasses.   A few books of uncertain source, a lot  of these things were in boxes that Emily brought home from college c. 2004.

I have reconsolidated things and eliminated about eight to ten boxes, and that was the first pass through.  

If the snow continues I should start on some remaining boxes this weekend.   I still have about twenty to thirty books and their destination will be Half Price Books.  

That is really the sum of my activities this week.   Other than cooking and eating out. 

I am starting a new blog. MY PHOTOS...FILM TO DIGITAL   this will require me to go through another few boxes and scan the best.   I have forty years worth so I suppose I could post a few pics per week, if not daily.