Well, I have spent a good part of the last week trying to finish installing software onto the new hard drive and to get it set up as the software was set up on my former hard drive.
I installed my organizer program and the software for my old cell phone, which I use as a PDA. I then installed the program which allows the two to synch. I then had to copy the data file for the organizer from laptop to the desktop after syncing them. The reason I needed to sync them is one file has to overwrite the other at the first sync. This way when I overwrote the old cell phone with the organizer I did not lose any information. So I then had those working. Until yesterday, however, I did not get the software installed so that my current cell phone could also sync with the organizer. (I sync one device, than the other when I sit down at the computer to work and when I leave so that all 3 have the same information - the current cell phone only for the parts that sync with the program. Between this and the software all ready installed so far, I feel like Sweeney Todd in the play/movie about him when he gets his razor back - “At last, my arm is complete again!”.
I had to redo for my records the two sales I mentioned we had as the information for my records was incomplete - that took the better part of an afternoon.
I played with the settings for the monitor and finally found a setup I can live with - how can certain parts look so different and others look right? I know it is not the setup I had before as a program I have which used to have a window too large for the monitor (and I had to change the setting to use same) and it no longer is too big, on the other hand, if I switch to a lower resolution, one of the other programs is too big to use. But I can deal with how it is now.
I am now dealing with changing preferences - the location of files, etc. I still have two programs and two printers to install. But I can use the computer again.
Now I have to catch up on what I did not do the last 2 weeks. I spent part of the afternoon doing follow up from the embroidery board meeting I went to last week - normally it would have been done the next day. I checked a few things online which I needed to do. I wrote a few emails. It seems every time I get the stuff to do NOW stack down, something happens and it stacks back up.
On top of all this we have had a problem with our little RV - the one I was writing about before this computer mess started. We had to take it to a shop authorized by the generator manufacturer to have something small fixed. We had a 9 am appointment. We planned to drive out with both the RV and the car - if we had to leave it we could, if it would be all day we could go out for lunch, etc.
Our RV has to be backed out of the driveway - not something easy to do normally and worse during rush hour, plus the construction going on. We decided to back it out the night before and turn it around and back it back up the driveway. We live on a VERY busy street. We figured we would do this around 1 am when the traffic is much lighter. There was suppose to be VERY heavy rain that night late, so we went out to do this at around 11 pm. Still too much traffic, but we needed to get it done. I stood in the road with a walkie talkie and when there was no cars, etc I told husband and he backed it out. It was not lined up properly and cars started coming on our side of the street. He pulled over up the block a bit. He then turned around and came back - wrong direction to try to back in. He drove up the street the other way and turned around. We then waited for an empty time on the street and he got it up the driveway.
Next morning we drove to the generator shop. I drove the RV as I was less nervous about it all. We cannot take the RV on the road we would normally take to get there - a limited access road, 50 mph road - as it cannot go on same, so we had to go on a main surface road. We got there just before our 9 am appointment. Husband went into the shop to let them know we were there and find out what to do. They told him to wait. We did. At 10 am a large RV (Class A - one of the ones which looks like a bus) pulled in. Husband had seem it leaving when he drove in, a few minutes ahead of me. They had an 8:30 appointment. We both sat there until 10:30 when they told the Class A to pull in and us behind them.
We explained to the mechanic all that was going on. Our generator is under the RV so he decided to check one thing first, since if that needed to be fixed, it would have to be taken off and the rest of the work would be easier. We waited. It did need to be fixed. He took the generator off and sent us on our way with the RV. He told us that he left what he needed to take apart inside, apart as he was sure we would not be using it. We said fine.
Now, before we brought the RV in we took our bedding and a lot of other things out as we are a bit upset about anyone being in the RV (or our house or our car...) due to our craziness about bed bugs. We covered the mattress pieces in plastic covers and put both on the side of the car which does not involve accessing the electrical system - or so we thought. When I got into the RV to drive it home, he had needed to access the side we put everything on. The table top (stored under the mattress on that side) was lying on the floor as was the top of the cabinet which goes under the table top (we did not even know this piece came out) and our mattress - no longer wrapped in the plastic covers were across the back. I was extremely upset. We could not drive the RV that way as a quick stop would bring the table and cabinet tops flying forward, so we put them in the car (and later stored them in our van temporarily) and drove home. We then sprayed the mattress pieces with alcohol and put them into zippered mattress bags and the smaller pieces in a plastic bag tied closed. We heard from the shop that pieces are in and tomorrow we will bring the RV back there to have the generator put back on. We have no idea how much all this will cost us - more than we can afford we are sure.
In the interim husband has been trying to figure out some problems we are having charging the RV batteries by driving (the car engine charges them). He has decided in the past week that we need new batteries ($500 each) and an assortment of other things. Now he found out that the a device which lets the car battery and the RV batteries take turns charging as needed when driving was recalled about 2 months after we got the RV - no one told us. He thinks this is the problem. So now he is trying to find someplace local which will either sell one of the device (and we will have our service station put it in) or install one for us.
Never a dull moment or a quiet relaxing one.
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