....the sun has broken free of the heavy clouds and is reflecting off the copper roof on the other side of the river. All day it was overcast, threatening to storm, but so far nothing on this side of town, anyway. The temperatures were substantially lower, and I used my seat warmer on the ride over to church this a.m. Well, it was ONLY 72 when I headed out. Excuse me, but that is chilly for us after being 20 degrees hotter last week! It got up to 82 today, which is fine with me!!
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Justin was here earlier to check out my new laptop, giving it his seal of approval. Whew, that was close! He did have a bit of trouble fitting his man-fingers on the keyboard but mine fit perfectly. Justin set up a few things for me like Google Chrome as my browser and when I close the cover, the laptop goes to sleep rather than shutting down all the way, the type of things boys like to do to their machinery. "Factory settings" are so "ordinary" it seems. I know that I will be glad to have the features he put in place and it makes him feel wise to do it for me.
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As long as he was here, I had him do some other things for me, like plug in my external DVD player for the computer, having to climb around behind and underneath and around.....good thing he knows what he is doing! My computer looks like Mission Control with the all wires and USBs and connectors running from it. He also switched the lamps between the river room and my bedroom, because my bedroom lamp, formerly a three-way light only had one, dim. I do not need much light in the river room so now I will be able to read when in bed at night. Justin also carried his "old" Medusa floor lamp down to the garbage, freeing up floor space in the river room. I never used it in there and one of the arms was no longer usable, which rather scared me, since it had an open space where a bulb would be screwed in. Just trash it and be on the safe side.
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Justin also oversaw my back-up of files from my C drive onto the external hard-drive. I will assume the files are all saved but will check later as it was going to take about 30 minutes for the entire "transfer" of data. I hate to erase anything but he assured me it was okay to let go of some of the files. Like travel arrangements from 2004---yes, I guess he is correct.....
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This morning was spent at church finishing off the service folder and making the copies for Sunday. Rachel from Victory stopped by with the Advent service music, as our church and theirs will be taking turns hosting special worship on the Sundays in Advent. We went into the church so she could play the Reformation anthem for me which is kicking my butt, and then played through each Advent piece, one of which we already know. "Awake, O Sleeper", a familiar hymn. The rest seemed simple enough but one may be a challenge. One out of six won't be too bad, especially since "Awake..." is a standard. It will be lovely, I am sure!
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Justin makes me laugh---he said, after he took his shower, that the bathroom smells like the bar on a cruise ship. I am sure it does! Actually, the scent of the body wash is a tropical one, which reminds him of the special drinks on a cruise. I get that! I wanna go on a cruise!!!!!
