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Good morning everyone!

As I predicted, our move Friday was fraught with delays and complications not forseen. Instead of the “flip a switch, move the servers, plug them in and we’re good” it was more like wait hours for the preparations to flip the switch to get done, then wait hours for the servers (and even then they didn’t bring them all!!) to get physically moved, installed into their slots, powered up, the network tested, etc, etc before we were finally “back in business”. So, instead of being up and running by 11:00 am, it was more like 3:00 pm before we were running. Although most of my day was spent helping others get their computers set up, their phones programmed and other mundane tasks, I was exhausted by the end of the day.

And then it was the weekend finally. I was glad I had nothing much on tap as it turned out.

I went to Inman to take Kathy the photo of the puppies and see how she was doing. I found her not feeling well and the kennel dogs still shut up inside the kennel although it was 11:00 am when I got there. I helped her get them out into thier runs and then cleaned the kennel room for her — I won’t go into the condition it was in. It could have been worse, but still was pretty bad. Brooke (her daughter who lives with her) was nowhere to be found. Right before I left, Kathy asked me to call her other daughter to ask her to pick up her medicine at the pharmacy. Daughter #2 said she would pick up the meds Sunday or Monday IF she could afford them. I asked her how much they were and she replied they usually ran $3-$5 each. Then I asked if I could pick them up and she said yes, I could but that she would do it once she determined if she was going to be able to afford it. Kathy is diabetic and on insulin. She also must take an anti-siezure drug as well as some other drugs for blood pressure, etc. So, I went to Walmart and got the prescriptions for her. Call me a sucker…….you won’t be the first to do so. All I could think of was this could be my mother (but thank goodness it’s not!!!!).

Well, all is not beautiful in our new paradise. Over the weekend, I got a call from my co-computer geek that the system had gone down due to the server room getting too hot. He called to ask me about some errors he saw in the log and I had to fix what was wrong. He also had to call building maintenance about keeping the airconditioning running higher for that room — guess they had set it down for the night/weekend and got it too low for our servers. I hope that’s a one-time deal and that we don’t have to contend with that issue all the time. It will make life miserable otherwise.

Anyway, here is a photo of my view that I took with my cellphone camera. It’s not all that exciting unless you’ve been looking at cardboard colored walls for the last 7 years 😆 We had lunch at the deli Friday and it was VERY good food at a VERY reasonable price! I had a sandwich, chips and drink for $6 and they also have breakfast!

That will be super!

Well, I’ve got to run and get ready for work. I just wanted to get this up this morning so you could see my view.

Love to all,

Margaret