Barb's Computer Virus

Barb got an email from Paypal saying she had two suspicious transactions for $200 each. When she phoned the number for Paypal she asked how were they able to access her account. The Paypal lady said that the fraudsters must have her account number and password.  She said that she would start an investigation about the fraud and reverse the charges to Barb's account.

I checked Barb's computer. Her computer had a virus. I looked up the details about the virus. It said that this virus was able to access your financial information. When I used the virus scanner to remove the virus, it came right back when I rebooted the computer. Fortunately, Microsoft provides a one-time only scanner that could get the virus off permanently.

When I was telling my friend at the bar after fastball about Barb's problem, I said that Barb watches television through the internet. Sometimes she uses some sketchy websites. My friend said that was funny because it usually the husband that uses some sketchy websites.

Bank of America Fraud

Barb got a notification that someone had illegally used her Bank of America card number to purchase a $1 item in Burlington Ontario. She phoned the Bank of America to find out what it was all about. She was surprised that the purchase was in Burlington Ontario because that is where I grew up. The Bank of America said they would reverse the charge but Barb was supposed to destroy her debit card and they would send her a new one in the mail.

A couple of days later Barb received her new Bank of America card in the mail. When she looked at the bank account online she saw that the $1 purchase was reversed but the bank charged her $20 for an Express Post mailing of the card. So it cost $20 to reverse a $1 transaction.

Dreaming in my Blue Chair

I have been having trouble sleeping some nights. I wake up early in the morning.  I get out of bed quietly so that I don't wake up Barb. Then I go down to the living room where I read in my blue chair. Sometimes when Barb gets up for the day, I will go back to bed and try to sleep. Other times, I  try to sleep in the blue chair. One day I was up early.  Eventually, I went to sleep in the blue chair. While I was sleeping, I dreamt about going up to bed and sleeping.

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.