Monthly Archives: January 2012
They had better be worth it !
Today I headed out about 11:30 for some errands and a few client visits.
My first stop was at a client’s to pick up a check, and now I finally got the Chase Online Deposit thru your cellphone thingie working.
I had tried it twice before, and no matter what I did, the check pictures came out blurry, even trying 3 or 4 times. They would look fine on the screen, but as soon as I took the picture, the result was blurred. However when I took a picture of the check the regular way with the camera in the phone, it looked fine.
So today I decided to try it again to save me making a special trip to the bank that was in the opposite direction from where I needed to go next.
And it worked fine. No problems. The only difference was that the first couple of times I tried it on the kitchen counter in the rig, and today the check was on the center console in the truck.
Of course the ad on TV shows the guy holding the check up in the air as he takes the photo, so who knows. We’ll see how it goes next time.
My next stop was Auto Zone to get new windshield wipers for the rig and the truck. After a little research I decided to try the Rain-X Latitude Wiper Blades. According to Consumer Reports and other sources, they will last the longest.
I ended up getting them local because Amazon didn’t stock the 26 inch ones for the rig, and the place that did have them said 11 to 14 days delivery. Heck, we may be gone by then.
But, boy, were they expensive! They’re sold in singles so I had to buy 4 packages, two of each size. And the total came to just over $93.00.
They really better work good.
Then I headed over to Pasadena to check out a laptop problem with a new client. His 5 year laptop seemed to be pretty well infected, so after fooling with it for a while, and finding he had the Recovery CD’s, I decided it would be faster, and cheaper for him, for me to pull his documents and photos off, and just reinstall Windows from scratch.
Leaving with his laptop, I headed over to another client’s for a quick look at a problem she was having with her email Contacts.
She could select a contact to email to, but she couldn’t open or edit a contact. It took a few minutes to track down the problem, and after getting it fixed up, I headed home about 4:30pm.
Brandi sent over this hilarious video of Landon eating dinner while trying to stay awake. Brandi’s laughing so hard she can’t hold the camera still. A couple of times her laughing wakes him back up.
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About 5:30 Jan and I headed over to the Monterey’s Little Mexico in Dickinson to meet our friend Maria to first eat supper, and then Jan and Maria were going to play Bingo at the Knights of Columbus Hall in La Marque.
Our granddaughter Piper didn’t go because she starts back to school tomorrow and wanted to get a good night’s sleep.
Maria won a small pot, but Jan busted out for the night. Maybe next week.
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Thought for the Day:
Fishing is relaxing. It’s like yoga, but I still get to kill something.
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When The Moon Hits Your Eye . . .
I’ve been reading recently about Verizon upgrading their 4G network in the Houston area and all I can say is . . . WOW!
First off, we now have 4G here at the RV park. It was only 3G when we got here, but was on Verizon’s website as “Coming Soon”. Guess they were right.
But the speeds are something else. Look at that first line of SpeedTest.net results.
Yes, that says 27 Mbps download speed. That’s about 20 times what I usually get with my Verizon Air card. Later in the afternoon it ranged between 7 and 8 Mbps, still very, very good.
After a nice slow morning I went in my client’s office to work on configuring one of the new computers I bought for him the other day. It took about 3 hours but I got all the software installed and updates.
Later this week I’ll move the data from the old computer to the new one and put it online.
. . . Like A Big Pizza Pie –
Tonight we decide to check out a new pizza place that I read about in the newspaper called Russo’s New York Pizzeria.
The pizza was good and so was the bowl of Tomato Basil Bisque I had. But the real standout was their large pizza. Most pizza place have a large pizza that’s 16 or even 18 inches, but this one is 28 inches in diameter!
The box it comes in looks like a freakin’ coffee table. It almost takes two people to carry it.
We got the medium which is 16 inches, and could only eat half of it. But that just makes for great leftovers.
Tomorrow I’m going to see a new client, a referral from one of my other clients. Over the years that’s where most of my business has come from, so I’m always glad to hear from someone new.
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Thought for the Day:
“You can’t predict the future, but you can invent it.” – Dandridge Cole
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