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I wish I could relax this weekend

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All I want to do this weekend is relax, but I don’t think there’s any hope of that – not at all. If the weather holds up I have to work in the garden, in particular near the fence that’s about to be replaced on Monday. You see, we have trellises and plants attached to the fence so we have to take things down so that when the old fence comes down on Monday we’ll be ready.

I also have to prepare for a birthday party for my husbands uncle. His family put me in charge of getting the personalized birthday banners so I have to look into that this weekend too.

On top of all that my Cable/Internet/Wireless company – Rogers – is really stressing me out. It’s a long story but they sent me a new phone at the beginning of May and I didn’t like it so I sent it back. They then charged me a cancellation fee of $400 twice, and gave my cellphone number away to someone else (I got it back!) .. but to keep it short, all these things have conspired to make it almost impossible for me for me to get another new phone because they kept telling me that 1. the other phone hasn’t been put back into stock so I can’t get another phone, and 2. now that the other phone has been put back into stock finally (as of May 30th two full weeks after it was returned!) some problem with them giving my cell phone number away two weeks ago is now causing a glitch in my account and not allowing hardware upgrades. DUH!!!!!!!!!! ROGERS SUCKS!

I’m so very stressed tonight and well .. for the last couple of weeks because basically I’ve been on the phone to Rogers for hours and hours in the month of May trying to fix these problems and get the phone that I want … I kind of felt earlier today that I might have a heart attack. Yes that’s how stress out they are making me.

So you can see why I really want to just relax this weekend? I’m going to try my best …

The Ron Sexsmith Documentary – amazing

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My husband and I are just watching the Ron Sexsmith documentary. He’s such and amazing musician – so talented and yet so undiscovered.

The documentary is kind of sad in a way because it seemed like he’s spent his whole career struggling pretty much in poverty, yet everyone seems to be so much in awe of his talent. I live in Toronto and I remember seeing him perform live in a bar in the early 90’s and just being blown away by his talent back then … it’s sad that he still has to struggle to make it in some ways.

I believe he actually had a new album coming out. I’m going to do a search when I finish this post and if I find it I’m going to buy it and play it so loud on my stereo that it blows the speakers right off the speaker stands lol.

Survivor is getting interesting

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I’m enjoying this season of Survivor (Redemption Island). We taped the show tonight and we’re just watching the final immunity challenge where the group of survivors are competing to put puzzle boards in stairs in 110 F temperatures. I’m hoping that no one has a heart attack!

Wow … Rob isn’t looking good at all is he!

It’s funny, Survivor is one of the few reality shows that I watch, but with every new season it takes me a few shows to get to know each survivor, I almost wish they’d wear name tags or something for the first few days. It would sure make it easier.

So .. do you watch Survivor? Are you excited about watching the last two shows to see who wins?

Anybody else have trouble upgrading their iPod to the new OS?

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I am sooooo tired today! I had a huge problem with our newish iPod Touch.

I was up late on Thursday night … I guess that would make it early Friday morning and I was sorting some music in iTunes and syncing it with the iPod when I got a message asking if I wanted to upgrade to the new O.S.. I said yes, but as it turned out … at that time of night (3 AM) I probably shouldn’t have!

Everything seemed to be going ok at first, but just as the upgrade seemed to be nearing completion an error message came up and the ipod screen seemed stuck with a picture of a USB cord and and the iTunes logo. When I unhooked the USB I couldn’t turn the iPod back on, nothing would happen at all and when I’d hook it back up to the computer via the USB I’d get that same usb itunes image again and nothing else. Also, the ipod wasn’t showing up as being attached in itunes.

I restarted itunes, I restarted my computer, I spent literally hours pouring over support and help pages at Apple and finally after hooking the iPod up to my other laptop at about 8:30 Friday morning did I finally get a message via the iTunes on my old Laptop that stated that my iPod needed to be restored.

Sigh … by the time I finally got my lump of an iPod working again it was about 9:30 in the morning and I’d been up for over 24 hours! Believe me I was more than ready to hit the mattress … trouble was I was so hyped up after not having my iPod work and also after watching all the stuff about the earthquake and Tsunami in Japan that I had some trouble getting to sleep.

Anyway … you’d think that Apple would make sure that an OS upgrade would go smoothly .. I mean my laptop is only a month old and all the software on it is up to date so that wasn’t the problem! Grrrrr! Hopefully the next time I have to upgrade it goes better … I certainly won’t do it in the middle of the night.

Still finding new things on my laptop whooohooo

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I’ve had my new laptop for about three weeks now and I’m still exploring everything that’s on it. It certainly came loaded with quite a bit of software … in fact, I think i”ll probably end up taking some of it off the computer after a while if I don’t find that I use it because my new laptop has two hard drives and the operating system seems to be installed on the smaller hard drive which means everything so far is getting installed on that hard drive so it’s filling up quickly!

The new laptop is an Asus and if you’re familiar with Asus they come with tons of software and as I said I’m still trying to figure out what it all is … like smart login manager, and asus multiframe, asus access, asus, ap bank .. Clicking on the programs has gotten me into trouble once or twice so I think i’ll do internet searches on them first to figure out what they are. LOL I just wish there was a better explaination somewhere on the computer as to what all this special Asus variety software was about.

Oh and there’s a built in webcam. I’ve never had that before on a laptop or desktop. Trouble is .. again, I can’t find anything about how to control it. There’s barely anything written about it in the manual. Odd. Anyway .. once I figure it out I can use it for Conference calling on Skype with my friends and family. I’m certainly looking forward to that! Actually maybe if I just download and set up the Skype software perhaps the webcam will work? Probably. I guess I should test it while I can still return the laptop huh? I mean, if it didn’t work …

Ok back to finding out what other fun stuff is on my laptop …

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