Fun with technology

Monday was a day when it seemed everything was "off," literally.  I arrived for an 8:45 dental appointment only to find the office closed.  It seems they are now closed on Mondays, but they forgot to reschedule me when they changed hours.  They had a cancellation for next week, though, and I'm rescheduled for then.  

I returned home to find Paul on the phone with the cable company.  Last week he called them to reduce the number of channels we get.  We never watch about 95% of the channels anyway, but the cable is bundled with our internet and phone.  They sent a new modem and router which should allow us to use our Roku to access TV from now on.  OK...  We aren't fans of DIY technology upgrades, but Paul valiantly took a stab at it, almost immediately encountering problems with the online installation directions.  He had to call a service person and was told to disconnect and reconnect.  Nothing, including the phone, worked.  

Thank goodness we had a cell phone and, after a long session, managed to get everything up and running again.  Then we had to make our devices - laptop, Kindles, Alexa, iPad, cell phone - all recognize the new network.  It was worse than changing the clocks.  All this to reduce the number of TV channels we subscribe to!  Our phone worked for a while and then didn't work anymore.  At about 9 pm it rang once and then we had a dial tone.  Did some fairy godmother at Spectrum check on our connectivity?  We'll never know.   We're just glad that's over - at least until the next "upgrade."

Meanwhile, my cellphone was busy most of the afternoon as Friends of the Library called with one question or another about our Light Up the Library project.  Everyone is busy soliciting donations of holiday trees, wreaths, and other decorations which will be shown and then, after two weeks, raffle off.  In the middle of all of this busy-ness, I managed to applique three Dear Jane blocks.  What a soothing, relaxing activity hand applique is!