1/20/2014

weekly update 1/20/2014

I will be having taxes to get started on, and I've got some other thing that I wish I had a copier for (repairs to the VW, payments to Verizon and Comcast while my VISA is in flux, etc) so it's becoming apparent that I need a scanner / copier as well as just a printer. Dave & Lisa Winkler came over last week to see if they could do anything with the old HP that I've had since I moved here, but it was pronounced dead. So, I guess it's time. I went to the Walmart on Monday to see what I could find. I bought another HP that is a printer / scanner / copier all-in-one, and the cost was $49. And that included $35 worth of ink cartridges! How can this be? In our throw-away society, it's cheaper to buy new and just junk the old, and the landfills get more and more full. Anyway, I was proud of myself that I could install the new printer myself and it seems to work fine. 

 

I did look online for recycle places, and Staples will take old devices, so I stopped there first on my errand run on Tuesday. Staples, then the Midtown Deli for the only good bagels that I can find in all of Savannah, and then Barnes & Nobles at the (gasp) Mall for a new crossword puzzle book. Except for going to The Rail on Thursday, that was all the venturing out I did.

There was no DH this week. Many of the places in Savannah close for a week, or two, or a month (I'm talking to you Mrs Wilkes) when the tourist trade is slow. I know that DH uses the week to clean and repair the museum, and I'm sure others do as well. But it was rather nice to have a week off.

It's been chilly again, and by Saturday I decided I'd had enough. I turned the furnace on. I'll still have the windows in my bedroom open so that I can keep it cool in there, the way I like it for sleeping, but I've got the heat on to a toasty 68 degrees.

The Oxford Dictionary added words this year that have become a part of our language: twerk, selfie, defriend. I would suggest a few words or phrases be deleted as they are no longer relevant: early retirement, honest politician, competent lawyer (ask Ishy about this one!).

I was going to add customer service to my list, but Verizon has redeemed companies everywhere (well, maybe not Comcast). I had written to the company headquarters in to about the preloaded apps using all the memory on the phone, and how December I w complain as stuck with a 2-year contract when the memory is exhausted in 4 months. To their credit, they left text messages, and tried to contact me by phone (I didn't realize it was them since the area code on the display screen was 910, and I don't know anyone there; I don't pick up my phone if I don't know who is calling). Finally, I received an email from a representative who offered to send me a free memory card to make up for the issue I was having with lack of storage. Imagine! They made an effort to be sure I was satisfied! whoda thought?

While the games were on, I “watched” while occupying myself with other things: