Today I went to the new coffee shop, JSA Coffee Roasters, 406 N Main St, Seymour. There I met an old friend, Jane.
We sat and sipped on our drinks, catching up for about two hours.
My drink of choice was a hot chocolatey coffee. Jane had an extra-strong coffee on ice.
My yummy coffeeFreshly roasted coffee packaged for saleBesides coffee, there are plenty of teas to chose from.These coffee pods came home with me so I can do a personal tasting and see what I like best.
There are many flavors of coffee and teas to drink. I’ll try one of my pods soon and keep notes on which flavor I like best.
Meeting an old friend at a new coffee shop was a good thing to do on a gloomy/rainy day. Both made me smile.
I thought I had all my chocks updated to Daylight Savings Time, but then I remembered a couple in the upstairs bathroom.
I don’t know how we got so many clocks, but I use them all.
A few update to the time change on their own. They are atomic and get the true time every day and every night.
I just remembered a clock in Bob’s office that still needs changing. I don’t usually look to that clock for time, so I may not get to it right away.
Can you guess which of the clocks was the worst to change?
I had a couple that gave me trouble as I worked to rehook them back on the wall, but setting them was easy.
The most difficult to change was the one in the car. I didn’t want to get the how-to book out of the glove compartment, so I worked on it on my own.
For some reason, the minutes would change but not the hour. They would whizz ten minutes forward with just a little touch of the button. Because of this issue I had to keep resetting them.
Eventually, I got past the minute display and landed on the hour button. One little touch and the clock was on Day Light Savings Time. Yeah!
Of course, the hard part comes when we have to ‘fall back’ at the beginning of November, but I won’t think about that now.
Two weeks ago I arranged for a new router. The box came in two days and has been sitting on the counter ever since.
I thought I could hook it up. Plugging in all the wires wouldn’t be too bad. What worried me was all the things that need WIFI here. They would all need to be reconnected with the new router number.
The tangle of wires and the router
Halfway through setup I ran into a problem and called for help from my provider, CenturyLink–DSl is the cheapest option I can get in the country.
A woman, far away, helped me through all the things I had to do to get my new router working. All the wires were hooked in the right places. I just had to click the right things on the website to get everything working with the router.
I listened to her. She waited for me to do as directed–she was very nice. It took a little time but
I DID IT!
Still, I wasn’t finished. I had to get my TV to recognize the WIFI and my Echo and my cellphone.
The phone was easy. The TV took a little time, but I didn’t have to Google an answer.
The Echo/Alexa was different. I Googled my problem, found someone who had answers on youtube. It was easy after following his step-by-step directions.
Everything seems to be going well, or else I wouldn’t be able to post this blog.
Today I checked the oil level in my car. I’ve checked oil before, but I always had Bob as a backup. This time I was on my own.
First, was to remember the latch to open the hood.
That was easy to pull. Getting the hood to open was the challenge of the day. I remember Bob cursing at the car hood when he couldn’t get it to open last year. I didn’t curse, but I felt like it. I had the latch knob in my hand but couldn’t budge it…. until, suddenly it worked.
Finding and pulling out the dipstick wasn’t a problem. I even remembered to bring out a paper towel to wipe the oil off the stick.
All went well. There was even oil on the dipstick. It wasn’t necessary to add any.
I was so proud of myself.
I have an oil change appointment for Friday, but I didn’t want to have any kind of problem before that scheduled time.
Now I know I can drive back and forth to Seymour this week without worrying about low oil.
Bob and I watched Hidden Figures when it first came out in theaters in 2016 and were enthralled.
On the news on February 24th was the report of mathematician Katherine Johnson’s passing at the age of 101. So when I was working in the library on Tuesday, I checked out the DVD/Blu-ray and brought Hiden Figures home to watch again.
It was just as powerful as the first time I saw it. I recommend it to all my family and friends. If you saw it in the theater, it wouldn’t hurt to watch it again at home.
These women were hidden treasures that were finally found and celebrated.
