Password Problems

We bought Julia a laptop computer for her birthday when we were in Florida.

She has been using the Barrhaven Tennis Club treasurer's computer for the past few years.

Barb wants to hand over the treasurer's job at the end of the season. So Barb will be returning the computer.

The new computer is Windows 8. I set it up for Julia when I was in Florida. As far as I could figure out, Windows 8 wanted me to snyc the laptop to a hotmail account. So I set up a hotmail account for myself. However, I never use the hotmail account.

We were back in Ottawa a few months before Julia's birthday. I hadn't touched her computer since i was in Florida.

After her birthday, I tried to set up a user account for Julia on her computer. I couldn't log in because it didn't recognize my password.

So I went to my computer and looked up on the hotmail website how to change a password. I asked for a new password to be sent to Julia's hotmail account.

Julia didn't look at it right away. So the reset expired.

When Julia was ready, I resent a request for a new password. Julia reset the password for my hotmail account.

I tried to log on to Julia's computer with the new password. However, Julia's computer was not hooked up to the internet. To set it up on our network, I had to be logged in. I had to use the password from last time I was on the her computer. I was panicking.

I tried my password again a couple of times. Finally, I got in. I do not know what the password was that worked.

I was able to set up the internet after a while. Then it synced with my hotmail account. Now Julia is all set.  

When will I learn how to keep my passwords straight.

Card Eater

Daphne and I set up a Visa credit card on my Dad's old bank account to pay for some of the expenses on the house until the sale closes.

Daphne brought me the credit card this weekend along with a letter with my starting PIN.

I went to the bank to change the PIN. Unfortunately, I didn't open the label that held the starting PIN before I left. I put the card in the Green machine. Then I tried to get the label off. I couldn't figure out how to get it off. 

I asked the lady at the information desk to help me. She couldn't get the label off either. There were people waiting to use the machine. The TD bank in Barrhaven is a busy place.

The lady said I could come to her desk to use her machine to set up my PIN. By this time, the Green machine had eaten my card. The lady had to go around and open the back of the Green machine to get my card out. That took even more time.

Finally, she got my card.  I went to her desk to set my PIN. All that and I will probably never need to use the card.  

Splash

Barb loves her iPod. She carries it with her all the time. Even more often than the portable telephone.

So the other day, Barb decided to go downstairs to sew. She was carrying a cup of coffee and a glass of her favourite cold drink (soda water and grape juice).

She decided to carry her iPod on top of the glass. As she was going down the stairs, the iPod fell into the glass of soda water and grape juice.

Barb freaked out. She was so worried she had ruined her iPod. She had all of her addresses in it, as well as, a lot of other important information. She was afraid she would lose everything.

She rushed upstairs to dry out her iPod with paper towels. She was afraid to turn it on in case it would short out.

She waited a few hours before turning it on. It seemed to work except for some of the sounds. Later, all of the sounds worked.

She was afraid to charge it because the charging plug had gotten wet. Finally, she charged it last night.  It worked perfectly.

Barb learned a lesson about taking care of her most valuable possession.

New Neighbours

My sister and her husband were visiting for the weekend. They arrived when Barb was out playing pickleball. So they parked in the driveway.

When Barb got home, she parked in the neighbour's driveway. The old neighbours had just moved out. There was no one living there.

Julia, Daphne and Truman were heading out for a bike ride. Julia came in.  She told Barb that the new neighbours were trying to park in their driveway. Barb said what is the chance. She never parks in the neighbour's driveway. So she rushed over to move her car.

When she got there, our new neighbour was just coming out of the house into the garage. He turned out to be Barb's old tennis partner J.C. Barb screamed at the top of her lungs. She was so happy. She yelled so loud and so often that the neighbour across the street came over to see what all the yelling was about.

Daphne told me that it looked like Barb knew our new neighbours. Julia thought it was funny that our neighbour across the street came over to see what Barb was yelling about while Barb's own family didn't pay any atttention to her yelling.

Jane and J.C. knew that they were moving into the house next to ours. Jane was going to write to tell us. Then she thought she would just surprise us. She definitely surprised Barb.

Problem with Pay As You Go

Barb and I share a Rogers pay-as-you-go cellphone. Barb puts $100 on it once a year. Then if she renews it before the end of the year, she can carry over any unused value. She last renewed the cellphone when we got back from Florida.

I use the cellphone quite a bit for my ball teams. I also brought the cellphone to Pike Lake when I was there for my Dad's funeral. The real estate agent who was selling my Dad's house would call me on the cellphone even when I got back to Ottawa.  This frustrated Barb but I didn't complain.

While I was in Pike Lake, I tried to check how much money was available. I didn't know the PIN number that Barb had put on the account. So I changed the PIN number to one I knew.

Later Barb tried to access the account. However, she didn't know that I had changed the PIN number. So she wasted a lot of time without getting through.

Then my sister visited for the weekend. She texted me to tell me when she would be arriving. I didn't get the text. My sister thought I was rude not to reply. I told her I didn't get the text. She resent the text, I didn't get it the second time either.  We thought she must have been sending it to the wrong phone number.  Daphne said she was sending it to the same number that she had in the past when it had worked.  It was very mysterious.

After Daphne went home, I phoned the cellphone account to change the PIN back to Barb's number. The administration site told me the cellphone had expired. Barb checked the amount of money available on the phone. She thought it said $8.20. She didn't have her glasses and the print was very small. I rechecked it. I found out that the amount was really $0.20.

Since it costs 40 cents to receive a text, Daphne's texts couldn't come through. So Barb went on line and put $100 on the account.

We were surprised that Rogers hadn't informed us that the cellphone account was running out of credit. However, we were happy to fix the problem. I might need the phone in the next couple of days for my ballgames.

Pickleball Trip with a Control Freak

Barb is really into Pickleball. She plays nearly every day.

She is even travelling all over Ontario to play in competitions. She recently travelled to Oshawa with three other ladies to play in a women's double and a mixed doubles competition.

The women who “organized” the trip is the so called Pickleball Ambassador for the area. A couple of days for the trip, Barb and the other ladies, who were travelling together, received an email for the ambassador. In the email, the ambassador explained every little detail about the trip: when they would leave, what they should bring, where they should eat, what they should bring to the gym. It was the work of a super control freak. One of the ladies told Barb confidentially that she might not be able to take it travelling with such a control freak.

Barb didn't let the control freak bother her. She won Gold in the women's doubles and Silver in the mixed doubles.

Sarah Badgers Through

I have a nickname for Sarah based on the Honey Badger. There is a video on Youtube about the Honey Badger. The Honey Badger is a bad-ass. He doesn't care about any kind of problem that he faces. He just goes ahead and gets whatever he wants. I call her Sarah Badger.

We were driving to Indiana to visit Barb's friend from Florida for the long weekend. It was a 12 hour drive. During the drive, Sarah was working on a poster for her summer job at the university. She had a moral quandary because she was supposed to show her experimental results. However, her experiment wasn't working and the methodology was not very well controlled.

I tried to help her while driving but I didn't know what to do. When we got to Indiana, Sarah was still working on her poster. She worked late into the night and then got up early in the morning and finished it up.  Then she emailed it to her supervisor at the university.

When she got back on Tuesday, she printed it out.  The competition was later in the week. The poster competition was for all of the undergraduate students who were working at the university. There were about 50 of them.

Sarah won third prize. I told her that it was great that she “badgered” through her problems and got what she wanted.

Adventures in Canadian Health Care

Laura's Ontario health insurance card expired on her birthday. Fortunately, she was able to renew it in Mount Forest before she left for England.

On the way back from South Africa, Laura began throwing up on the plane. When she got to Vancouver, she went to the hospital. They asked for her health card. She showed them her temporary card from Ontario. 

They also wanted to see identification. All she had was her Vancouver driver's licence. She had to explain the long story about working in Vancouver two years ago.  Then she went back to school in Halifax last year. However, her home address was still Ontario. Fortunately, they accepted her card.

She was diagnosed with urinary tract infection and given introvenous antibiotics. Then she was given a prescription for an oral antibiotic and released from the hospital. She had a bad reaction to the oral antibiotic. So she went back to the hospital the next day.  She got a prescription for a different oral antibiotic.

A couple of days later, she was feeling better. 

She was hoping to work on the new Tim Burton movie when she got to Vancouver. But by the time she was feeling well enough to work, the Tim Burton movie was wrapping up. We saw pictures of Laura at the wrap party on Facebook. She got to meet Tim Burton at the wrap party though which was a dream come true.

World Travelling Daughter

After Laura came to Mount Forest for my Dad's funeral, she left for London to volunteer at the World pole dancing competition. She spent the weekend in London with some competitors from Halifax. 

Then she started on an adventure around England and Ireland to visit my relatives.

First, she had to figure out the train system because she couldn't rent a car with her current credit card limit. She got to Preston first to visit with my cousin Ruth and her family. 

She was also able to visit with Ruth's brother Billy and his family. 

From there, she went to Whitby to visit my cousin Gail and her family. 

Then she was on to visit my cousin Stuart and his family in Hull. 

Then to Manchester to fly over to Ireland.

In Ireland, she visited Tipperary to meet my relatives on my mother's side of the family. 

Then she went to County Wicklow to visit with my aunt Carrie and her family and my aunt Violet and her family.

There were many pictures posted on Facebook by my relatives.  So we could see where she was.

Then she went back to England and met my cousin David and his family in Shepton Mallet. 

Then back to London where she had lunch with my cousin Paul. Paul dropped her off at Heathrow to fly to South Africa.

There she was planning to meet up with a school chum who was running an art school. She planned to volunteer there and see the sights of South Africa.

Then back to Vancouver through London. In Vancouver, she will be back working in film production and lighting.