Daily Archives: April 6, 2022
Thirty Years Ago Today . . .
One thing I forgot to mention yesterday about our doctor visits is that we no longer had to wear a mask. Nor were the ladies in the Billing/Reception area. Only the doctors and nurses who were dealing directly with us patients were masked up.
A big difference from the last two years when we were let in the office one at a time, and had to keep our masks on the entire time.
Even more telling, Dr. Spuhler didn’t fuss at me when she saw I still hadn’t been vaccinated.
It’s all winding down.
After talking about our visit to the Buc-ee’s down in La Marque yesterday, I came across this article illustrating how much some places want a Buc-ee’s in their area.
So much so that they even build their own. And even stranger, no one seems to know where it came from. It just appeared one day out in Marathon, TX, out in the Big Bend area.
When I got up about 4:30 this morning for a potty break, I told Alexa to turn on the fan in our bedroom because it was kind of warm. And Alexa gave me the red ring light and said she couldn’t connect. So not thinking anything about it, I turned the fan on manually and went back to bed.
But when I got up about 8am, none of the Alexa’s were working, and Jan was complaining that she actually had to use the remote to turn the TV on.
Oh, the horror!
Our Alexa system uses our Verizon MiFi, and when I checked my phone, I found Verizon cell system was down, with no bars, nothing showing on my phone. And it stayed that way until around 9:30, when it suddenly popped back on.
And Jennifer, our office manager, said it was out at the Dollar General where she stopped on the way to work. Their credit card machines were only working occasionally, so the checkout line was long.
Thirty years ago today, on April 6, 1992, Microsoft moved on from the DOS environment, released Windows 3.1, and launched their domination of the computer world.
Though there was Windows 1.0, 1.01, 2.0, 2.01, 2.03, and 3.0, 3.1 was the version that really worked and began to come preinstalled on new machines.
A Tandy/Radio Shack ad from 1993
All this setting the stage for Windows 95, three years later.
And so it began.
Thought For The Day:
I think someone missed the point.
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