Tech Friday

I finally bit the bullet and bought a new laptop.  My old trusty Dell has Windows XP, which is now exiled into oblivion by Microsoft and it is 8 years old and apparently not as fast as the new ones.  (Which isn't that true about all of us?)

So here it is.  All I have to do is figure out my security key (thank you Carole and Amy) and then transfer everything from the old to the new.  Please note the Scrabble game on the old one on the right - Carole and I have been playing on-line since 2008! And we play every day!  And, sad to say, my words are not getting any better.  And that I have not yet gotten the new one up and running.  I do sort of look high tech with two running on the table - or I like to think so.  (However, if you notice my OLD not smart phone, you will know that is not true.)

And then my vacuum cleaner decided to stop doing what vacuum cleaners do. Which is work. Now I am not too upset - as you can see I have very attractive duct tape keeping the hose attached to the cleaner.  That is because of a major design flaw with the model.  If you use the cleaner and the hose twists, it will release from the cleaner.  In case that is a surprise, that is a problem - from the get go.  It doesn't take an engineer to figure that out, hence the duct tape to fix it.  

I told mom that since I had the new one, I was going to take my deceased one and the ancient Electrolux that is behind her closet door as a shrine to the recycling place at the dump.

"Look at this!  Has anyone seen it move? It weighs a ton!"

She says "No".  I asked her when was the last time it had been used and she blatantly lied and said that she had used it last year!  Really?  Anyone - can you visualize mom and the vacuum cleaner?  She may use it to hang a coat or a bag off it. I can tell you there are no vacuum cleaner bags around for it, which means it is not being used.  Which means that I can't get it out now because she will look for it everyday since I put that thought in her head.  Lesson learned ~ don't ask, just remove and then cultivate plausible deniability.  

At last, but not least, the connector cord from my ipod to the computer has failed.  Why is that? How much work does it actually do? So I have to get a new one so I can add all my new tunes to my ipod.  I know everyone will be pleased that I have new Blake Shelton and Waylon Jennings to add to Poison and Motley Crue and Wilco.  I can hear Amy saying that the "music" I had downloaded caused the cord to fail.  Not hardly.

Oh, my new vacuum cleaner?  Fabulous.

Much love,
Leslie