Her Journey

Barb was talking about pickleball and her journey or someone else's journey and I said she had been watching too much Olympics.  That is how all of the personal interest stories start on television.

Brazil

Barb was upset with the Brazilian fans at the Olympics because they were treating every sport like a soccer game.  They would "boo" when the volleyball players they didn't like were serving to try to throw them off their game.  They did that not only in volleyball but every sport, even gymnastics.

Barb was also furious that the volleyball players continued to serve the ball into the net or out of bounds.  She said they almost never get aces anyway.  So why do they try to serve hard like that when even if they put the ball in play, they still don't get an ace and most of the time they just lose a point because of a serve in the net or out of bounds.

Internet Challenged

Barb is a little internet challenged.  In Firefox, she saves all of her favourite places under Weather because she says otherwise she can never find them.  So now she had the CBC Olympics website under the Weather tab.

Limit

I was watching the World Fastball Tournament on the internet while Barb was watching the Olympics.  After a while I thought, do we have a download limit per month.  Barb said she had never had any problems before and thought we might have unlimited download.  Soon after that Barb got an email from our internet service provider telling her that she had used up 78% of her limit.  We were heading to use 150% of our limit.  So Barb called them and got an upgrade to unlimited for a month so that we could continue to watch our sports uninterrupted.  Barb also was given a website to look up our usage each day and our accumulated usage.

Lost Files

I was having problems with the old XP desktop computer I had in my study.  So I decided to wipe the drive and reinstall the XP operating system.  It took quite a while to go through the set up routine and then when i went to activate XP I found out that Microsoft had taken down the servers they used for activation.  So I couldn't use XP any more.  I decided to install Linux on the old computer.  I found that the computer was so old you couldn't boot from a memory stick.  I had to make a boot CD.  I went out and bought two CDs.  Then when I looked for a Linux distribution and I found that it was slightly too big to fit on the 750 Mb CD.  I then found a minimal Linux distribution that was only 48 Mb.  So it definitely fit on a 750 Mb CD.  I installed Linux on the computer.

Later I was thinking about my old family diary files and remembered that I had saved them on 3 1/2 inch floppy disks and the only computer I had that read those disks was my old desktop computer.  I had copied all the disks on to the computer and then I had given a whole box of 3 1/2 inch floppies to Best Buy for recycling.  I panicked thinking that I had lost all of the files.

I searched all my files on my laptop hard drive and my external hard drives and couldn't find the diary files.  Then I looked at all my memory sticks and found the diary files on one of them.  I guess I had backed up the old XP hard drive on one of my memory sticks before I wiped the drive.  I was so happy.  Then I backed up the diary files all over the place after that.

Early Birthday Present

I guess I have been assigned the new car permanently and Barb has taken the old car for her use.  I was disappointed that there was no auxiliary plug in the new car for me to listen to my mp3 player on long drives.  I like to listen to audio books when I drive.  I was telling Sarah and Ali about it and Ali said you could buy a little gadget that you plug into your cigarette lighter and you can plug in your mp3 player and it will broadcast on a channel of your choosing so that you can pick it up on your car radio.  I said that I would look for it next time I was in Walmart but before I could do that Ali had bought me one and Sarah delivered to me as an early birthday present.

Sweat

Barb is playing pickleball in the KW Badminton Club.  The building is an old curling rink that has been converted for badminton and pickleball but it doesn't have any air-conditioning.  So Barb finds it very hot and she sweats a lot.  Today she decided to sit on a Costco bag on the drive home so that she wouldn't get the car seat wet from her sweaty skirt.