Chargers and Musials

Barb emailed me in Ottawa to tell me that my coach for the recreational softball league had phoned to tell me I was on his team that was called the Chargers.  The teams in the league are all named after National Football League teams  Barb gave him my email address and he said he would be emailing me a package in a couple of days.  Then I got an email from the coach of the Musials telling me I was on his team in the Restricted Bat League.  The teams in the Restricted Bat League are named after Major League Baseball Hall of Famers. Finally, I got an email from the commissioner of the Neighbourhood League saying that I hadn't been picked up by any team but I could come out and spare.  I didn't like sparing because I didn't want to disappoint a team if I didn't play well.  In early January, I got an email from the captain of the Liberty Park team telling me I got picked in the lottery to play on his team.  Liberty Park is one of the neighbourhoods in The Villages but I can play on their team because my neighbourhood doesn't have a team in the league.  So now I was on teams in all three of my leagues and would be playing four times a week in the winter season.

Kindle

I went to read my ebook on my Kindle tonight at Julia's house and found the screen looked funny.  Then I looked up on my iPad about the funny screen on my Kindle and found out that the screen was broken.  I guess it got broken in my suitcase during my flight.  I was pissed because I had wrapped it in a way that I thought was really protected in my shirts in the middle of my suitcase and it still got broken.

Switch User

I had to request a computer using my computer account even though I didn't have a computer yet.  I did that first thing in the morning and waited all day.  Then I was told I had to reply to an email they sent about my new computer.  After I requested the computer, I had to confirm that I would receive the new computer even though I hadn't received the new computer yet.  So I went to my supervisor's computer and I had to switch users from his account to my account.  So I clicked Switch User and typed in my username and new password and then hit the button that said Switch User.  That brought me back to the logon in page.  So I typed in my username and password again and hit Switch User and it brought me back to the logon page.  I did that a number of times and then asked what I was doing wrong.  I tried to switch users again and was about to hit the button that said Switch User and my supervisor looking over my shoulder screamed NOOOO! Hit Return.  So I hit Return and I got into my account.  I guess when I hit Switch User after typing in my username and password, I was switching user out of my own account.  So I filled in the form to confirm that I would accept the computer and emailed it back but it was 3:30 in the afternoon by that time and I was told that everyone in the IT group had probably gone home and they would not see it until tomorrow.

Change Password

So I flew to Ottawa and Julia picked me up at the airport.  I was going to be staying with Julia for the week and sleeping in Julia husband's bed and he was going to stay with his mother.  So I arrived late Wednesday night and went in to work on Thursday morning.  The first thing I had to do was activate my computer email account.  They had given me a user name and a initial password that would work the first time I tried to logon.  But the first thing I had to do was change my password.  So I borrowed Stan's computer and used my username and password to logon and pushed the button at the bottom of the screen which took me to a page to change my password and then confirm my changed password.  Then I hit the button at the bottom of the screen and it brought me back to the logon page.  I tried to logon with my new password and it didn't work.  I tried a few times and it didn't work.  So I tried the original password they gave me and I got in to the page to change my password again.  I changed my password to something more complicated because I thought maybe my new password wasn't complicated enough and confirmed it and pushed the button at the bottom of the screen.  I was sent back to the logon page and tried my new password and it didn't work again.  I tried a number of times and then tried the original password again and got the change password screen again.  I repeated this a number of times.  And I asked the people there what I was doing wrong.  So the next time I changed my password, I was going to hit the button at the bottom of the screen and the person looking over my shoulder screamed NOOOO!  Just hit Return!  Then I realized that the button at the bottom of the screen was "Cancel" even though it was the only button to push.  When I hit Return it finally worked.

Shuttle Bus

I started making plans for heading back to Ottawa to pick up my work computer.  Barb wasn't happy about it but she got used to the idea after a while.  I was going to book my flights to fly back on a Wednesday and fly home on a Saturday but when I told them at work about that plan they said maybe I should plan to stay longer.  So I booked my flights to fly back on Wednesday and stay until the following Wednesday.  I was planning to leave late in the day so that I wouldn't have to get up early.  I thought Barb could drive me to airport and then go to Costco after dropping me off.  But I was returning quite late at night.  So I thought I would take the Airport Shuttle home from the airport.  When I went to book the Shuttle seat, I found out that the shuttle only ran until 11:30 pm and I was arriving at 12:30 am.  So Barb would have to come and pick me up too.

Black Friday

Barb was at it again. Shopping online on Black Friday.  She was waiting for two packages and got one in a couple of days but the second package didn't come after a few days.  So Barb looked up the tracking system and found out that it had been delivered.  Then she realized that it had been delivered to our old place in Crystal Lake.  She was so embarrassed.  She messaged the new owner and told him to bring the package over to Daphne's house and she asked Daphne to bring it here with her when she comes for Christmas.

Imports

We thought that it might be best to bring our second car down from Canada instead of buying a second car here in Florida.  We were planning on buying an SUV and selling that car anyway.  So we thought it might be good to have it here instead of selling it at a loss in Canada.  We looked into shipping it down and we found out that we needed to fill in forms from the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency to say that the car met the US standards.  We needed to find out if it was already certified.  So we got our neighbour in New Hamburg to go into the garage and take a picture of the labels on the inside of the door to see if it was already certified.  The first picture was cut off on the side.  So we had to get him to go back and take another picture.  We needed to get a letter from the manufacturer saying it met the standards.  Barb phoned that they said that there was a recall on the car for the airbag in the passenger side of the front seat but it was no problem to send us a letter.  So we were getting ready to get it shipped down and then we called the shipping people and they said that they couldn't get it shipped if there were any recalls on it. So we might have to wait until next year to bring the car down.