Ice chopping and App loading...

Today it was chopping Ice!!  Remember yesterday I didn't get all the drive cleaned but the sun melted a great deal of it.....?  And then it froze into a sloppy slushy frozen ice cube all over everything..

So when the sun came out today, for a couple of hours in the morning to begin to melt the mess, I was out there with my chopper scraper on the long handle..  One of the better things I have purchased from Harbor Freight....

It digs up most anything stuck down... Last summer it was the drywall mud on the floor in the basement....  Today it was sliding under the frozen ice and popping it away from the concrete drive...  A lot of it I then shoveled to the yard, but some I just spread out for the sun to do its work...  The sun stayed all day....

As I was doing this, I couldn't help but remember how last year on this day I was having the second surgery in three months... where they were fixing the first surgery....  I came to the conclusion that they knew the first surgery wasn't right... but I had been under so long, they needed to get me buttoned up and hope for the best...

That is because it seemed to be no surprise that I was right back and sick from the first operation....  Do they only work half the time....?  Well anyway I seem to be much better a year later after the second go at it...

I'm out here shoveling the drive!  Slowly, but still working along fairly steadily..  Once the drive was fairly clean, it was off to the Lowes again where all those snow machines were still lined up outside the front door...  We only had about 2 inches, that's not enough to sell blowers....

But I was purchasing toilet parts....  I had replaced the flapper valve before we left back in October, and the thing quit running on and on then... But the water float valve screamed and squealed when it was finishing up the last bit of water...  Annoying at 4 AM......

So it was back home to remove all the rest of the innards of the tank...  Water goes everywhere when you pull out the fill valve.....  But I had a bucket and a rag......  Didn't seem to leak when I was finished, but the night isn't over....

I purchased everything new from the shutoff valve up... That way it seems to seal up better.......

Then we had the grand kids back over while their mother runs the santa trips... I think we came home in the nick of time.....

I continue to set up and download apps for the new Google Andriod Phone... Looking at the old one to help me remember which ones I used...  It of course says no service on it, but you can still look at the icons on the screens...

So far I have been pleased with the Samsung Galaxy S III... It seems kind of too big when you carry it in your pocket, but using it the typing screens are a lot better because of their size....  And I have done a lot with the voice dictate feature...

Bringing up the Play Store, all I had to do was say FaceBook, and it loaded the app into the install screen without doing anything else...  Just touch install and accept and that's that...

I used Biscuit and her Ducky for a desktop background, because it is dark and she looks so pleading...  Its really neat, because it is a Google phone, all the photos that I have ever used on the blogs show up in my galleries....  That would be several thousand pics.....You can sit and scroll and scroll....  I didn't have to load a thing, they are just there....

And all of my contact list was down loaded the instant I synced my gmail account into the phone...  Never loaded a person... in fact I have been busy deleting the old stuff....  And when I delete it off of my phone, it is gone from my computer screen and the tablet as well....  Cloud computing...

Loyce came from a non smart phone, to the Iphone, so we had to enter her contacts by hand...  She also was putting some games on it so the grandkids were messing with it too...   They have apple products at home, and probably know more about it than we do.....

And the short day is now over, and we didn't explode.....  but I have to print out the comment that Jessica left about the Mayan Calendar thing...

I work in a credit union (well, for three more days!) and yesterday we had a member come in to take out some cash. So she says to the teller, "well you know the world is supposed to end tomorrow..." I'm thinking she is kidding. Then she continues..."so I'm going to go buy some batteries and extra water. Won't do me any good if the world ends, but maybe the power will just go out." LOL 


Thanks Jessica...... I'm still rolling in the aisle.....

Retired Rod