We've slowly been getting certain upgrades at work, and my workstation was the most recent one to get upgraded--mine, and the office manager's; this happened over the weekend. I came in to find a shiny new operating system, I suppose you could say. It's so much faster. Del's workstation was already upgraded, so at least how it looked wasn't super ( Read more... )

Earlier in the week, my mom had an issue getting into her AOL account. I think it first happened on Monday, then it happened again on Tuesday. Around that time, we had internet and cable issues, and when I left for work that morning, I saw an Xfinity van nearby, confirming it wasn't just us. Since she couldn't get online anyway, mom didn't worry ( Read more... )

I got home yesterday and I'm starting to eat dinner when mom tells me that she'd tried to print something and it didn't work, so could I check on it and/or print something for her at work? My first reaction was, can I finish dinner first? But eventually I went upstairs and found something I could test print--tonight's concert itinerary--and kept ( Read more... )

Last week Tuesday--and recall that Monday was Memorial Day, so we were off--my boss comes in and declares he'll be taking Wednesdays off in the summer. Um, that's great, but did you have to start *this* week, with almost no warning; who is going to take the late shift? He went, oh, BBC. ...Without having mentioned this to BBC. I'm the one who ( Read more... )

One of my frustrations for the past few years has been that I haven't been able to print from my devices. For whatever reason, printing from the iPad is not possible that I've been able to figure out, and while I did try to set up printing on my laptop, something wasn't jiving and one refused to speak to the other. I've ended up printing a bunch of ( Read more... )

I spent today trying to get through some tasks that just needed to happen and be gotten out of the way. One of those was music-related. Once I have a concert, I notate my music that I've performed it, I update my spreadsheet with that info as well, and then I move the music elsewhere. For Regular Band, I have a place in my big binder where I keep ( Read more... )

We've been having ongoing computer issues at work for quite some time. Mainly, our equipment is old and should be replaced, but my boss prefers not to spend money, so he upgrades when necessary and that's about it. Recently, stuff started not working properly, and our IT guy was tasked with doing an upgrade; I think he needed to get more RAM for ( Read more... )

I am so excited to have figured this out. For the longest time, I held out on using my phone to take pictures, in part because my original smartphone wasn't that great with pictures, so I kept using my digital camera. It's been great for many years, but then a couple things happened. One, Big Sheila, the big iMac I used for many years, finally ( Read more... )

Earlier this year, I read an article about podcasts recorded by a mom in a closet in her house. That was intriguing in and of itself, but the content of those podcasts piqued my interest as well, and it wasn't long before I was listening to one of them. You see, they're meditation podcasts, and one of the ones she produces has water and nature ( Read more... )

When I got my laptop last fall, I immediately got the Microsoft Office suite. I really wanted a legitimate writing program like Word, I loves me some spreadsheets so Excel was a must, and bundled with them was Outlook. I figured I could get all three of my main email addresses in there and be able to check all three at once. And then I balked and I ( Read more... )