Day 3: I am sleepy. The cat is out of the bag. Even though I'm getting gracious doses of comfy sleep, I remain sleepy. Either the three-hour difference is having its way with my behind, or I'm fighting off something. As my sinuses are being very testy with me, I suspect the latter.
Day 2 was a bit of a continuation of Day 1 inasmuch as I was doing "Mr. Computer" duties. My aunt was not to blame as she was off on a trip to Athens GA with a friend to see said friend's granddaughter graduate from the University of Georgia.
No, it was a little bit me and a little bit the computer and a little bit my mom. I decided to add PC Speedy Recovery to my mom's computer. While she was out and about in the morning. I started the download. It didn't end for many hours. Some 13,416 problems were identified and corrected.
After that, my mother got a long-awaited confirmation e-mail about her end-of-January 2012 trip to Jerusalem. It was created in MS Works, had a .wps document tag, and her computer (MS XP software) wouldn't open it. Thus began my search of the internet for "fixes". I found one (MS-approved) that took its time downloading and discovered it would not work because it had nothing to "fix"....in other words, my mother's computer didn't have all its operating system's software downloaded. Then, my mother remembered that her "regular" computer guy had cleaned her computer and then reinstalled software but that he didn't reinstall stuff she never used (or didn't think she'd ever use). Until this e-mail arrived with a .wps document attached, she'd never needed to use the "Works Suite 2002" that was part of her core system. Happily, she had all the discs.
Sigh. I had thought my work was done after the PC Speedy Recovery finalized, but now I was into prime time (TV, that is) and missing a program I wanted to watch. I finished in one hour and had time to watch "Grimm" after all. My mom's .wps document opened, was printed and I thought all was fine.
"Grimm" started and more questions came about how to save photos (something we've been over "many" times before).
I have arrived at the conclusion that my being here is detrimental to my aunt's and my mom's willingness to experiment or think through these problems for themselves.
Double sigh.
Also during the course of yesterday, we drove to Edgefield to look at Christmas decorations and then visited lifelong friends for an hour and a half.
Overall, I got the gist of "Grimm", and I can use "On Demand" when I get home to catch up on what I did miss.
