Email Change

We changed interest service provider from Rogers to Distributel.  So I was going to lose my Rogers email address.  I didn’t use my Rogers account very much any more because I found it too slow and buggy.  I had converted over to gmail.

However, I had saved a lot of old emails that I didn’t want to lose.  So I spent a number of evenings cleaning up my email folders on my Rogers account and sending emails that I wanted to keep to my gmail address.

I didn’t get finished before Rogers cut off my account.  I was upset.

Then when I tried to log on to my Rogers account, I found I could convert my old Rogers account to a new Yahoo account and have all my email folders transferred over to the new account.  So I didn’t lose anything and I didn’t have to clean up the old account.

Cutting the Cord

Barb was tired of paying high fees to Rogers for cable television.  We didn’t have cable television in Florida.  Now that she had Kodi, she could watch all of her favourite shows over the internet.

So she started looking into over service providers.  After much study and talking to a number of sales people on the phone, she chose Distributel.  She bought just their internet and home phone service.

There were some kids selling Bell services in the neighbourhood.  Barb talked to them but they couldn’t beat the price and service of Distributel.

The Distributel service also had a great plan where we could put our service on vacation while we were in Florida for the winter.  We also have a great plan in Florida that puts our service their on vacation while we are in Canada.

The Bell man came and set up the DSL line through the telephone.  Then we received the Distributel modem and router in the mail. 

We had some problems with the original modem with the call waiting and call display features.  Barb was out when I phoned Distributel for help.  They wouldn’t help me because I didn’t know the password Barb setup, even though I could answer a lot of other questions to verify who I was.  I was fit to be tied.

I waited a little while and then phoned back.  This time I got a different person on the help line.  He was more reasonable and helped me even though I didn’t know the password because I convinced him I was the right person for the account.

We figured everything out.  When Barb got home, she told me the password.  I never would have guessed it myself.  But I will remember it now.

A Quandary Solved

Laura was in a quandary.  She planned to go to Halifax after her television show was finished. She had an apartment waiting for her and she was planning to take a course or two at NSCAD.  She was going to Halifax to participate in the Eastern Canada Pole Competition.

Then her crew was asked to work on a great new movie called Deadpool.  They really wanted her to stay.  Laura also thought that this job could lead to bigger things. 

So she didn’t know whether to continue with her plans to go to Halifax or stay in Vancouver to work on Deadpool.

Laura is constantly missing her flights.  This year she was planning to come to Ottawa for her birthday on her way from Vancouver to Halifax but she missed her flight to Ottawa. She could get a flight out the next day but would have to pay extra.

In the end, she decided to stay in Vancouver and lost all the money she spent on her flights.  I sent her some money for her birthday to use to pay for the flights.  She decided that that would be the last time she booked her flights ahead of time because she was always missing her flights.  From now on, she was going to buy her ticket at the airport.  That way she would never miss a flight again.

Mouse

We have often had mice in the house during the winter.  When we got back from Florida, Barb didn’t find any signs of a mouse in the house while we were away.

However, when she was cleaning out the Green Recycle Bin, she found a little mouse hiding under the paper.  I guess the mouse must have fallen in the Green Bin and lived on the old scraps of food in it.

Barb cleaned out the Green Bin but didn’t touch the mouse.  In a couple days when she went to look again, the little mouse was curled up and dead.

Damsel in Distress

Barb was not happy when she got back to Ottawa.  She spent two days cleaning the house and she had to do a lot of groceries.

She bought a big pork loin at Costco but the butcher wouldn’t chop it for her.  Then when she went to cut the loin into pork chops she found she had forgotten her good craving knife in Florida.

She went at the pork loin in a fierce state with an old dull knife she found around the house.  I sat at the kitchen table and stayed out of her way.

Later when she calmed down, she asked me why I didn’t step in and help her.  I said I didn’t think it was safe to go near her when she was holding a large butcher’s knife.

I could have been Barb’s Knight in Shining Amour coming to the aid of a Damsel in Distress.  I will do better next time.

eReader Change

When we were leaving Florida, Barb had just finished one the books in her series and I was in the middle of the book I was reading.

I looked up my book in the library and found it as an ebook.  So I downloaded the book for me to read during our trip back.  I thought it was great to be able to continue my book even though I was on the road.

When I got back to Ottawa, I looked up the next book in the Barb’s series up in the Ottawa library.  There was only one copy.  It wasn’t available and there were a number of holds on it.  However, I found that it was available as an ebook.  So I downloaded it and installed it on my eReader.

However, when I checked it on the eReader, it said File Can Not Open.  I checked my eBook and it also said File Can Not Open.  This was a change since I was reading it on my eReader the night before.

I figured they had changed the format of the ebooks at the library and my eReader was no longer compatible because it didn’t have a clock to tell the eReader to delete the ebook when it was due back.

I searched the internet for a way to change the format.  I found a 14 step process to unencrypt the ebook using Linux.  I stayed up late trying to figure out how it worked.  I couldn’t get the process to work because I missed one little sub-step. 

The next day I went back through the process and found what I missed.  I was able to unencrypt the ebook and put in on my eReader.  Barb never read the book that I converted but I was happy I could do it.

Book Arrives

When we left Ottawa in the fall, I suspended my holds at the Ottawa library.  Barb decided to keep her place in the waiting list.  The day we got back to Ottawa, one of the books that Barb had on hold for the whole winter came in.