New day and we begin with a question about a keyboard. Well, Gary also has some questions about some free software updates for Lug’s new computer and we need to solve this keyboard problem so we’re off for Best Buy. And, we thought our errands were through yesterday. Nope, more fun.
But, if we took our old keyboard into Best Buy several weeks ago, maybe someone took their old keyboard into Best Buy recently and maybe we could ‘borrow’ it for a day or so. Well, at least it’s a possibility. At this point, we don’t have any keyboard. And there we were at Best Buy 2 days in a row. Gary is asking about the software and I’m trying to explain to the Service Desk what we need. And, what a guy. He goes to look, finds nothing but returns with a NEW keyboard, tells me that I can buy it for $20 and return it when we’re done, as long as it’s not damged and is within 30 days. Ah, I had thought of that but it seems a bit sleazy. (I guess that I’m admitting that I can think of ‘sleazy’ ways to do things. Hmmm.) Maybe we’ll ask at another Best Buy for any returned ones. However, he talks fast to try to alleviate the ‘sleaze’ factor and we finally buy the new keyboard.
And, here we are in the Library again, using the fast, unlimited download. They’ve got an ethernet connection and Gary has several downloads to go. Ethernet is much faster than our Verizon wifi and we’ll get done so much faster. And, we got an e-mail from Verizon last night that we were at 100% of our 5G months usage with one day to go. Now, it we wanted to spend $10.00, we could get another 1G but, again, the library is so much faster and we’ve got lots of downloads to get this computer ready for his father.
Not only that but the library has so few distractions. There are a million things I can do at home but here in the library, I tend to what I’ve got on my list to do. And, look at the library chair in the picture below - no comfort there - no lounging around here. Sit up straight and tend to your work.
Some people take their laptops into the library to study. This must be the first time someone brought their desk top computer in. But, look, this character also has a laptop. What in the world is this guy thinking? 2 computers?
Gary’s also trying to ‘clean’ up the software, removing those functions that Lug might have trouble with or won’t use. Actually, we wish we had gotten this computer ever so much earlier in the summer so we’d be around with Lug while he learns a new computer and new software. Gary is pretty good with talking his father through some thorny computer problems on the phone but can’t talk him through everything. Last January, Lug did something and all of his photos ‘disappeared.’ Well, they didn’t really disappear but he had pressed some key and they were nowhere to be found on his computer. Gary spent quite a while sitting at his laptop in our RV in Palm Springs talking to Lug sitting at his computer in Fort Dodge but to no avail. The pictures stayed ‘disappeared’ until we got back in May. Meanwhile I was on my laptop trying to find someone in Fort Dodge who dealt with Apples. I had as much luck as Gary did - which is to say, none.
Here’s a picture of Lug’s new computer screen - and look how big that cursor is. It is huge. Easy to see and difficult to lose.
Actually, I’ve got two friends in Fort Dodge who use Apples and, in a pinch, they might go over to Lug's to help him. His problems are really that his fingers are ‘fast’ and that he can’t see that well. He just ‘misplaces’ things on his screen. Of course, with a new computer, he can call the Apple help line also and talk with a ‘genius.’ Of course, both Lug and I think Gary is a genius but …(I had to say that, Gary reads the blog.) Hi, sweetie.
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