21- Very Busy Weekend

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Wow!   This was a very full weekend.

Friday I spent the morning settling up the credit card bill and preparing the four rebates from the washer/dryer purchase.  At noon I got out and mowed the lawn.  That took some time as the back yard had gotten way outta control.   I've been spreading the lawn clippings from the tame lawn over the glacial till of a back yard and mowing over it all.  Now the tame grass has been seeding the glacial till and actually taking over the wild weeds.  But it's getting damn tall!

2:30 and I jumped into the car to run the mail to the P.O., make some banking transfers, and pay off the credit card.   Ouch!  The credit card had the washer/dryer on it and the Subaru repairs of the beginning of April.  Fortunately Bubba Bush's rebate showed up the same day and Juli got a huge bonus this year.  Needless to say, it's all gone.

I headed off to Seattle and Interconnections, where miertam works.  He had a computer set aside for my mother-in-law.   Her eMachine just died for no reason in particular.  I thought it might have been a power surge, but she has a decent surge protector.  I got to see miertam in his work element.  He works at a cool place!

I stayed at Interconnections until miertam was ready to leave and drove him home.  We waited a bit for typographer to get home and walked down to a great pizza and pasta restaurant that they knew of in Ballard.  I had a fantastic salmon pasta!  Yum!

Saturday I went to work first thing.  Took 21 calls and made great progress in picking up and completing [to use typographer's terminology] two of my 7  running chainsaw jobs.  After work I went straight to Edmonds to get Laurann's computer put together.  She wanted the setting to remain the same as the previous computer, complete with Norten Security Center installed.  Unfortunately she didn't remember if she ordered it online or through the mail.  After three hours of installing and uninstalling I finally found the original disk in the drawer next to the computer.  Yay!.  We next downloaded her camera images and discovered that one program miertam had loaded was a very efficient image viewer, much easier then Kodak EasyShare [which is far from easy by the way].  We got hung up with setting up her email, but I found everything I needed online.  She is very happy and not only thanks Juli and I but miertam as well. 

On the way home I stopped in Federal way to go to Barnes & Noble.  First I stopped at Petco and got Kaylee and River their first bag of Adult Kitty food.  While in the book store I first stopped at the coffee shop.   After ordering my coffee the fire alarm went off.  The Batista whipped out my coffee and then chased me out the door.  The entire strip mall had to be emptied.  No books for me!
I got home at 9:30 and watched the DVR of Dr. Who.

Sunday I spent  the day  in Rollingbay with my mom and dad.  I had a fuschia  for  mom  and  a  card.   I managed  to  make  some  changes  on her computer  so that its back to the setting she prefers.  She is suffering from the "Blue Screen of Death".  She's had Ken look at it and a computer friend of her's.  I suggested that she take it to a pro and pay for the service.  [not Geek Squad].  She has another friend who's career is computer repair. 

That was my weekend.