Muffy…yes, in fact the tech DID tell us something we’d neglected. But houses are so far apart here that he/we doubt that it would be feasible for anyone to ‘borrow’ our Internet account. But now we’re zipped up. …’Course I had a different problem today. But it’s resolved.
Loving Life…I was giggling the whole time I read your post. Yeah…great DYI Art! At least your excess energy was used for good…not just ranting. You’ll sleep better for it! I hope you DO get satisfaction from DC tho!!!!!!! RE Internet…do you have Hughesnet in your area? They use satellites and a dish off the side of the house. They were even able to hit signal in our narrow deep valley. But you have cell service which we don’t. Rural challenges but we love it ‘out here’, don’t we?
Praying for Hieronyma’s whole family, esp daughter! Sounds like you’re doing what you reasonably can, friend. Your current preps are for your family’s right-now-personal-crisis of health. Every thing you’re doing for that certainly counts!!! hugs!
MollyM ….YAY! You opened that offending closet and got a start! Not only that, you have a plan. A good plan! Sure you’re a long ways from seeing completion but the vision of order when done should motivate. lol That…. AND the fact that the contents are now cluttering up other rooms. Yeah…I know THAT part of the story too well with my migrating boxes! We’ll cheer you on!!!
AmyDixon….casting supplies. We have extensive medical stuff. Just got more medical gloves and surgical masks cuz we use those – I use masks for dust and smoke during fire season. Either N95 if it’s bad or surgical masks if it’s less. But I’ve never even thot of casting supplies. Have a bendable splint for arm and solid brace for leg. Hmmm….
OK…..well today was interesting. I was responding to a friend’s inquiry in a long email. Just seconds from hitting ‘SEND’ …..and MY LAPTOP WENT BLACK! 😮 Aaaugh! We’ve been talking about me needing a new one – it’s been acting odd. Besides that dangling email, my next thot was:…..see that red can at the foot of the bed that’s to remind me of an overdue project? That’s a “mini-Faraday” where I keep the thumb drives. The last backup of this laptop was…..????? October. Awwww! I tried all sorts of coaxing and prompting…taking battery out and back in…etc. Still BLACK screen.
So I dressed for snow underfoot but sunny 50* outside. WOW! This weather is a January treat! One benefit with living in steep-sided mountain terrain is having great, safe backstops. Not talking baseball. DH and I spent some quality time hunting for hot metal in the snow. We made some DIY Art too! 🙂 Came in and I made beef stew while he cleaned everything.
I’d been praying….just need to update the thumb drives so I don’t lose 3 months worth of collected prep/other data. Additions to the Shopping List. Additions to my BO Graduated-Levels list….cuz that would be hard to reconstruct!!! Other stuff.
I pushed the button yet again and the orange light came on….holding breath and light turned white and the screen began to fill normally. YES, THANK YOU! I grabbed the red can…which has a smaller red can inside that – bubble wrap between them. Inside the inner can is bubble wrapped thumb drives. Spent some time carefully updating all my downloads, documents in word processing, pics, and all stuff in files on my ‘desktop’. In this current era in life, I can’t trust anything to memory so a LOT gets recorded there. I was thinking I’d just lost all those recipes OldGoat’s been putting up from WWI rationing, and the recipes from the new January Challenge….and a ton of other stuff. Some can be recovered again but… Whew! Now it’s all backed up and current.
And that long email to my friend? It was there as soon as I opened my email. Well I finished that right quick and hit SEND! …and I’ve been on the computer ever since….except to watch that stew. It was tasty.
OldMtWoman….so thankful ..and I mean to be more faithfully backing up now!
PS..just read AmyDixon’s scary winter/no heat story. We have one of the regular version of the Buddy heaters now. That day with the chicks is one of the reason we bought it….and have not had power outage since. So we’ve never used it. Turned it on to test it…might be too small. I think you used the two of them wisely…the last thing anyone needs is to compound trouble in a crisis…by being careless. Yes they did save your lives. So many don’t know that it’s deadly to burn charcoal briquets indoors. Any burn will use oxygen that you might need so cracking the window is our plan too. I wonder if the smaller unit would be enough? The ceiling in living room is not a full soaring 2 story but it’s just high to the peak of the roof. Well, there is always the vehicles as long as we keep the snow from blocking the exhaust pipe. Thanks for sharing that story.
OldMtWoman …sleep soon…
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