Catch-up post
Mar. 8th, 2026 12:02 amI deliberately left my computer at ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mashfanficchick's yesterday because I was coming back today and I didn't want to carry it around, so this is to catch up yesterday as well as today.
Yesterday we woke up in time to do the call back with HP. She did not reset the computer, but a lot of things were deleted, and the bios was updated. Then she said that the best thing to do would be to delete Discord. I can't do that, I need it for gaming night. And it doesn't seem right that an object sold as a laptop computer shouldn't be able to handle some very minimal apps. So she gave us the number for the warranty dept. And something really weird happened when we called. WE got a person or maybe a robot that pretty much just said "wrong number" when we called. So we are having another call back Monday so we'll see.
We called in breakfast, and I had a bagel with cream cheese and lox and that was good.
Anyway, at 4:00 I went and showered and at 5:00 I headed into the Bronx for my Al-anon meeting. I got there in time to have my pizza for dinner first. Then the meeting, which was very good. M drove me to the bus stop afterward. The bus was about 10 minutes late this time.
Got home, my Thriftbooks order of Cat Haiku had been delivered. But there was still no sign of the missing Pop.
I Teamed the FWiB on my phone and went to bed.
This morning I got up at 7:30 and had breakfast and coffee. Then I went to the church where my Saturday Al-anon meeting is, because the AA group that also uses the church was having their 50th anniversary, and they invited us. (For those who don't know, Al-anon and Alcoholics Anonymous are two separate organizations. Al-anon is for friends and families of alcoholics. AA is of course for the alcoholics.) They had bagels and cream cheese and butter and jelly and blueberry muffins. It was a very interesting meeting but the sound quality of the PA system was awful.
After their meeting we had ours, and afterward I went to the diner, driven by S as usual. I had the French onion soup.
Then I took the 13 bus to Flushing, and the subway from there tomashfanficchick's. Stopped on the way to buy two cans of iced coffee and a birthday card for Middle Brother.
Ze was sleeping when I got here, after taking melatonin last night trying to find a small enough does that it makes zer sleep without putting zer to sleep all day after.
So I used my computer to go to the Starsky and Hutch chat, and then after that Teamed the FWiB/ The Zoom for the chat worked wonderfully. The Teams for the FWiB, not so much.
After we got done, I woke upmashfanficchick and we ordered dinner, Thai food. Then ze downloaded a scanning program on my computer that a techie friend of zers recomended. Tomorrow the friend will give us more help.
And now we leave my computer to wait for the techie friend and I'm updating here on zer laptop.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. My meetings and the people there.
3. All was well at my apartment.
4. Free computer help.
5. Thai food for dinner.
6.mashfanficchick
mashfanficchick's yesterday because I was coming back today and I didn't want to carry it around, so this is to catch up yesterday as well as today.Yesterday we woke up in time to do the call back with HP. She did not reset the computer, but a lot of things were deleted, and the bios was updated. Then she said that the best thing to do would be to delete Discord. I can't do that, I need it for gaming night. And it doesn't seem right that an object sold as a laptop computer shouldn't be able to handle some very minimal apps. So she gave us the number for the warranty dept. And something really weird happened when we called. WE got a person or maybe a robot that pretty much just said "wrong number" when we called. So we are having another call back Monday so we'll see.
We called in breakfast, and I had a bagel with cream cheese and lox and that was good.
Anyway, at 4:00 I went and showered and at 5:00 I headed into the Bronx for my Al-anon meeting. I got there in time to have my pizza for dinner first. Then the meeting, which was very good. M drove me to the bus stop afterward. The bus was about 10 minutes late this time.
Got home, my Thriftbooks order of Cat Haiku had been delivered. But there was still no sign of the missing Pop.
I Teamed the FWiB on my phone and went to bed.
This morning I got up at 7:30 and had breakfast and coffee. Then I went to the church where my Saturday Al-anon meeting is, because the AA group that also uses the church was having their 50th anniversary, and they invited us. (For those who don't know, Al-anon and Alcoholics Anonymous are two separate organizations. Al-anon is for friends and families of alcoholics. AA is of course for the alcoholics.) They had bagels and cream cheese and butter and jelly and blueberry muffins. It was a very interesting meeting but the sound quality of the PA system was awful.
After their meeting we had ours, and afterward I went to the diner, driven by S as usual. I had the French onion soup.
Then I took the 13 bus to Flushing, and the subway from there to
mashfanficchick's. Stopped on the way to buy two cans of iced coffee and a birthday card for Middle Brother.Ze was sleeping when I got here, after taking melatonin last night trying to find a small enough does that it makes zer sleep without putting zer to sleep all day after.
So I used my computer to go to the Starsky and Hutch chat, and then after that Teamed the FWiB/ The Zoom for the chat worked wonderfully. The Teams for the FWiB, not so much.
After we got done, I woke up
mashfanficchick and we ordered dinner, Thai food. Then ze downloaded a scanning program on my computer that a techie friend of zers recomended. Tomorrow the friend will give us more help.And now we leave my computer to wait for the techie friend and I'm updating here on zer laptop.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. My meetings and the people there.
3. All was well at my apartment.
4. Free computer help.
5. Thai food for dinner.
6.
mashfanficchick
