Thursday, February 16, 2012

It’s Such a Small World

Zephyrhills, Florida   (hi 81, low 60)

Every so often, I am reminded at what a small world we live in.

When I worked at USAA Insurance here in Tampa, I had a co-worker, also named Karen.   We became good friends, but lost touch the past few years.

Here is a picture of Karen and her husband Ken  (that I stole from her Facebook page).  Devil

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Karen and I recently reconnected via Facebook and are making plans to get together soon. 

She told me she has an old friend named David that is also an rv’er and travels around just like we do.  She thought we might run into him and his wife since they like to to kayak and hike just like we do.   Given the number of rv’ers in this state right now, I figured it was unlikely we would run into this unknown couple. 

Anyway, Karen called me yesterday.  Evidently, while reading my blog and some of the comments, she noted that her friend David reads this blog and we read theirs as well!

Her friend David,  is the same David of  “David and Sherry”  from the blog  In the Direction of Our Dreams.   Now how about that for a coincidence? 

In fact, Karen told me that the picture on their blog of David and Sherry together, was taken by Karen’s husband Ken when they visited with them last winter.

Karen and David went to high school together and have kept in touch all these years!  We have wanted to get together with David and Sherry ever since they arrived in Florida. 

Every so often something like this happens to make me realize what a small world we are living in.

 

Al worked yesterday,  and I worked around the house resolving some billing issues with our health insurance.  We have very good insurance, but when you use an out of network provider, it gets to be a real hassle.   I think I got it resolved and I felt very good about it.  I’d rather clean someone else’s toilet than deal with medical insurance billing!  I tend to procrastinate until I can’t procrastinate any longer!

 

We have a large flock of small birds around here that I’m hoping to photograph and identify today.  They all fly together in the same direction, but they don’t ever seem to land.  They just flit around from one place to the other.  They remind me of schooling fish.  They seem to have a yellow underbelly.  Anybody have any idea what they might be?  I feel sure they have migrated here for the winter.  Normally, I would have gotten out and photographed those birds….I’m falling down on the job, but today’s going to be the day!

Someone sent me this picture of a beautiful black fawn.  Isn’t he adorable?

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anyone out there who uses the word identification on their blogs….if you’re not getting as many comments, it may be because the people can’t read the words.

I went to two blogs this morning and had a heck of a time deciphering the words I had to type in to be able to leave a comment.  After the third time on one, I said the heck with it and closed out.  I think they have changed these because the words seem to be harder to read. 

When I read blogs on my Droid, I rarely leave comments if I have to use the word verification because it’s harder on a small keyboard.

If I try once or twice and don’t get the right word….a comment isn’t left.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Dumb Move

Zephyrhills, Florida  (hi 82, low 58)

The cold front only lasted two nights and not it looks like it will be time to turn back on the a/c.

Yesterday started out with Al heading off early to do some of his few remaining pest control accounts. 

After my normal coffee/computer time, I had plans to tackle a few paperwork tasks around here.

Unfortunately, that all changed when I realized I must have left my purse at the doctors office the day before.  I very rarely take my purse anymore, since Al drives and he carries the cash and a debit card.    No reason to lug around the heavy purse.  I stick a lipstick in my pocket and carry my Droid phone…what else do I need?

I called the doctors office….they said the cleaning crew hadn’t found it.

I was skeptical.  I knew it wasn’t in the motor home or car and we hadn’t been anywhere else after leaving the doctors office.  I knew it was either there, or someone had picked it up.

I decided to drive down and check for myself.  I know how cleaning crews are.  If they don’t see any dirt, it doesn’t get cleaned.  Smile

I got down there and one of the women techs came out and said they cleaned the office real good last night and there was no purse left there.  Absolutely, no way was it there.  Still, I was skeptical.

So…..I asked if they minded if I checked the rooms myself.  I was in 4 different rooms, but I wasn’t sure exactly which four.…and they have a bunch of rooms.   I found my purse in the second room I checked.  It had fallen down by the wall and the color blended in with the color of the carpet.  Yeah…they clean real well.  Boy was that woman embarrassed after assuring me how well they cleaned! 

At least I found it and I could breathe a sigh of relief!

So after that little 18 mile jaunt, I decided to go to the optometrist and get my new reading glasses and change my contacts.  The trial pair he gave me weren’t working so I need to try a different brand.

I got home, messed around on the computer, trying to put some music on my iPod shuffle and on Al’s Fuze mp3 player. 

While watching the Grammy’s the other night, we discovered that we really like Adele.  What an amazing singer she is.

Unfortunately, I downloaded her hit Rolling in the Deep and I got a confirmation, but no song.  It shows that I have down loaded the song…but I can’t find it.  They have a cloud program and I thought I might have messed up when I downloaded it.  I tried another song…no problem..it came right through.

Unfortunately, there is no where (that I could find) to get a live person to help you and their online help system was of no help.  I finally decided to download the song again..another $1.29.  It told  me I had already downloaded the song and asked if I was sure I wanted it again.  Yes…and the same problem. The song was nowhere to be found.  I did get a message saying there was a problem and they were working on it…but no song and still nothing this morning.   grrrrrrr..  

It seems I am not up on this stuff anymore and everything has changed since I last downloaded any music.   I don’t want to have to do a lot of learning or thinking…I just want what I want when I want it.  It might have been cheaper to download the whole album.  The problem with that is getting it onto my iPod and Fuze!

As hard as I try, I can’t seem to keep up with all the technology.

I guess I’ll have to work on it more today because we found we enjoy working out at the gym much more with some peppy tunes to listen to!

Happy Wednesday.