There are a couple of pics this week.
Snow in Visitor Parking
We started the week with a whopping 8″ snow Saturday evening and Sunday morning. (Yea Dani, but it’s a lot for us). Danita did her grocery store run very early Saturday morning to avoid the big rush later in the day. We stayed home Sunday — no Church, no breakfast out. Danita made the best omelette I’ve had in many years. The grounds crew had bobcats moving the snow. All the visitor’s spots were piled high with the stuff. That’s one of the disadvantages of high density living. There’s lots of streets, sidewalks and driveways. Tiny yards. It’s all got to go somewhere. Danita was disappointed because everything was cleared out by the end of Sunday. She didn’t get even one day off of work. It would be nice if that were the end of winter, but temperatures got cold again. It got down to 12 last night. Things should be warming up later on this week.
HP Stream PC
Other than winter, we’re making progress on stuff. Taxes are done for the year. These days one can E-file taxes, tell the government to take the money owed from the checking account, and not to take it until April 15 — no matter how much snow is outside. Pretty cool. I got a great deal on Turbo Tax this year. They sell several different levels of Turbo Tax. They took stocks (Schedule D) out of the package I normally buy, and they’ve been getting very bad publicity. Amazon put the more advanced package on super sale. After I bought that, Turbo Tax offered a $25 rebate for people who need Schedule D. With taxes done, I sent lappy off to HP to get the keyboard repaired. It’s fixed and should come back next week. HP came out with a new, small, inexpensive computer they call the Stream 200-010. It’s kind of like a desktop, but it’s not much bigger than my fist. We decided that’s cheap enough and small enough that we can buy it and leave it hooked up to the TV for streaming movies from the Internet. In the mean time, I’ve been using it as my computer while lappy’s being repaired. It’s amazingly competent. But only because I was forewarned by the reviews and added another stick of memory. Still, the total cost with the extra memory is still under $200.
5 of the 6 parts we need to fix the furnace came in early last week. The last part came in Friday. The furnace fixers will be over Monday afternoon. In the mean time, the fireplace has been doing a credible job of keeping the house reasonably warm.
With all the bad weather we’ve been having, I haven’t ridden my bike in since Feb 11. I went over to the gym in our clubhouse several times, but going to the gym isn’t my cup of tea. I was able to take the bike out to the bank yesterday, to deposit that $25 Turbo Tax check. But it was too cold to ride very long, and the roads weren’t good enough to go on the narrow back roads I enjoy riding so much. Hopefully I’ll be able to start riding soon.
My Chinese Culture class has settled in. When working over the internet, it’s easy to forget how young most of these students are.
We don’t have any parties this week, but we should have clear roads Sunday for the first time in many weeks. (Not the whole day. That would be too much to ask for, apparently. But they should be clear until Noon.) We plan to meet Mark for breakfast.
Well, Danita’s back from the grocery store. It’s time to unload the groceries.