Since I “spoke” to all of you last I have actually made progress catching up what fell behind the last couple of months.
I have all the bank recs done. I have posted all the checks I had written before. Papers are filed away. The leak under the kitchen sink has not returned - even when husband used it to wash his hair again.
Today we installed the new propane monitor. It involved screwing a piece of wood over the hold the old one left and then drilling a hole for the wires for the new monitor and installing it. It works correctly. The old one must be returned to the manufacturer - at our postage cost - but since we don’t trust it, we are just glad to return it. The carbon monoxide monitor is still not replaced, but we have replaced that one before and the new one is a duplicate of the old ones.
Today I just finished backing up my computers - a monthly backup and a quarterly backup since no monthly backup was made last month. This computer which I am working on was the last to be done. It is the least important and is very slow and needs a good deal of time to backup.
We managed to find a new insurance policy for our reenactment unit - almost all the board agreed and today the application and check were mailed out.
I did get pushed back a bit today and ended up putting some items into the folder that had held the unfinished items for lack of time today. I hope to be done with them by Monday.
My embroidery chapter has to send the dues collected from members to our region and our national by the end of the month - and I am sure that you can guess who does this - yes, me. I will have it done in time. I also have the June newsletter for the chapter due out next Wednesday. Thanks to a reminder in my computer calendar, an email went out today to the rest of the board to see what they want to include. Since we are having our annual end of program year meeting of a luncheon, I specifically asked the member in charge of the luncheon to let me know what people promised to bring so I could list same in the newsletter. One slight problem I might have is that we have been planning on and off to go away next week for a delayed Memorial Day trip (if we go on the actual holiday the areas which is heavily tourist based, is just too busy for us, if we go during the week before or after - it is much nicer) and I will need to send the newsletter out in the middle of the week. My plan is to write it before I leave and copy the membership’s addresses before I go away - or if I have all the info I need, it will go out early.
Tomorrow I am going to my client for my monthly trip there. I have paid the bills to be mailed out on Friday so if I get home late tomorrow it they are ready to go. It was good that I asked to come on tomorrow (Thursday) as today in the President is in this area - and a relatively short distance away our state Democratic party is having their convention - with the losing Presidental candidate from our last election as their speaker. All of the roads into and out of New York City in all directions were backed up this afternoon. Tomorrow should be (at least a little bit) a better drive. My client does not use the Internet or a computer. Last month her business telephone company installed a router for her. I read up on the default passwords during the month as I want to change them for her for general security purposes. I have an email address which I set up to use for her for assorted business matters. Since I could not use at her business I never set it up in my business laptop. I went to do so today. I have no problem signing in on my home computer - but the sign in screen on my laptop keeps coming up with new problems so I may not be able to use it to sign in on my computer at her place until next month. My attempts to get the email address set up on the laptop took about 45 minutes of wasted time.
But, I feel as if I am getting back to normal for me. Little step by little step - or sometimes big jump by big jump I am catching up.
If we do go away next week, there will be a good deal of preparation of the RV before we go away. The RV will need to have the bed made up - as I have mentioned before this is about an hour’s process as the bed goes wall to wall sideways and headboard to kitchen/toilet at the foot with only the head of the aisle at the foot of the bed (less than 2 feet wide) and one basically has to be in the bed to make it up. The usual fill the water tanks, pack snack foods, pack clothes and such - I will have to remember what packs where. It really is a lot more complicated than organizing a house - what is in your house does not have to be packed so as not to shift or bounce while moving - the “stuff” in the RV has to be. And remember, this is not a one of those huge RVs you see on TV (and the road) - it is a Chevy van converted to an RV - while the roof was lifted and part of the floor was dropped slightly, the square footage is the original van so there is rather limited storage.
THOUGHT OF THE WEEK -
Slow and steady wins the race. Working when one can on a back up of stuff to do will get it done. Maybe not as quickly as one would want, but eventually.
To those in the U.S .- a good Memorial Day.
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