10:45pm FINAL UPDATE OF A GOOD DAY

Well, still feeling rather grand here, folks. Too tired for a long story, however, we been having some internet connection problems. Seems the wireless router we were given was a "piece of crap" to quote the repair guy sent over and he installed a new one for us. Reset my laptop and went on his merry way. Great guy, laughing, down to earth and in general, good people.

Problem was our main pc, the desktop was forgotten. Thing refused to go further than the router connection and find the internet.

Well it was a problem we had no energy for since we were in the middle of clearing out our upstairs, main kitchen in prep for painting. After a 1/2 day of that Emile said that we were going to call it a day and go to the beach! Whee! I am so there!

Both of us had a great time bobbing around in the ocean and sunning for a couple hours, dropping all cares for a bit.

*Note, this is one of Emile's pipes. Didn't feel like a whole bowl, so just took a few puffs from his after a long swim. Sorry, no picts of him, he'd kill me. LOL!

Then it was to one of our fav outdoor seafood restaurants for a BIG fried fisherman's platter combo of fish, scallops, shrimp, whole-bellied clams, french fries, coleslaw, birch beer soda, all the right dipping sauces--the works. Yum! So big the two of us shared one and we still have plenty leftovers to take home. Great place, as we sat outside eating, watched all the laughing little kids take rides on the small carousel they have there next to the picnic area

Home and it was with heaving sigh we started the long, winding and fruitless calls to tech support. Man, did they give us the dance. Guy we spoke to kept saying it was our computer, our wireless card, our anti-virus programs, and basically after we told him that no, we were not going to give them a ton of money for A: giving us a piece of crap, which, now replaced with better model, required us to buy rights to talk to someone who could actually help us, since he couldn't.

Told us a bunch of things to suggest, and ended with, "Of course it is your call what you do or not. Good luck. Bye."    

Uh-huh. Well, before I followed his 'ideas' and removed everything from our PC which made it secure I did a System Restore check point, and just for the hell of it, decided to restore the system to yesterday.

Poof! Everything worked just like that!

I beat tech support! Yeah, go me!   

So I am ending the day with a big grin on a rather smug note, touch of tan and hair curly from the ocean and shower and in general, feeling rather relaxed.

P.S. Just got the email that my tobacco & cigar order placed this morning has already been shipped! Woo-hoo!

Yup, just knew when I woke up that today was going to be one of the Good ones.

Nighters, folks!

Melissa