Password Impared

For the third time in 2 days, I have had to change my husband's email password. He usually never signs out so there is no problem. If I need to sign into mine, I close his and then reopen it. He tried to get into it from his job and that is where things went bad. I do not know what he does that makes it hard to get in. Maybe he doesn't use capital letters. Maybe he uses spaces. I have been contacted by phone three times to get the password key. One time was while I was driving. I just redid the password for the third time. This is getting annoying.

Rearranged

One of my doctors just bought a new house with her boyfriend. I asked her how they met and she told me the funny story. I will use fictitious names for it. My doctor, Katie, was living with her boyfriend David. They were friends with a couple Eric and Stephanie who have a daughter. Eric and Stephanie got a divorce but still are in contact due to their child. Two years later Katie and David parted ways. A few months later, Katie met Eric and they started to date. They fell in love. Stephanie was also dating, but Eric never pried into her dating life. Katie and Eric bought a house and are moving in together in February. Last month he decided to ask Stephanie about her new boyfriend. Much to his surprise, it is David. Basically two couples have been rearranged. Now everyone is happy.

Crepes

For some reason I am in the mood for crepes. Not the store bought kind but the homemade ones. Years ago my mother made the best blintzes. We called the crepes "bletels". I have never had blintzes taste as good as hers did, so today I will try to recreate them. I will make cheese ones, mushroom ones and maybe even seafood ones. I remembered a restaurant in the 1980's called Magic Pan. That is all they served. Lines were out the door waiting to have them. Any type that they made were delicious. They went out of business years ago but I am not sure why. I think that a chef was badly burned by the oil and sued them, but I could be remembering a rumor. All I know is that a well made crepe is absolutely wonderful.

Images

There are many ways to do research on the internet. The other day my husband was looking for some information on an army patch that he bought. He was scrolling the internet for hours and said that there was no information on it. I said I would try to look it up. He said that if he could not find it, I could not either. After he left the computer I sat down and did some work. I took the picture of the patch and dropped it into the Google image search box. In one second the information appeared. It was a 1950's air force patch. Anything can be found on the internet if you know how to look.

Mail

The new standard of sending mail has become email. Most people now pay bills that way. You are notified of the balance due via email and you pay electronically. I am still a paper mail person. Yesterday in work that theory was validated. Every year our malpractice insurance company mails me a bill via USPS and I pay it. For some reason my boss changed the best method of contact to email. That is where things went wrong. The company emailed her late October that the 2017 premium was due. Only she opens her personal mail, so I did not know they sent it. Since she gets many emails every day she probably overlooked it. Yesterday I received an "overdue" notice via USPS. I immediately opened it to find that our insurance had lapsed. I called the company and paid by credit card. My boss is away on a seminar but I used her credit card. I made the executive decision that insurance coverage was more important than permission.

Wrong Waze

I went to a party yesterday afternoon. A friend did the driving. We were going 10 miles north of my house. I knew the general way, up until the last few streets. If I was the driver, I would have looked at a map and known which streets to turn down. My friend used her Waze app. We got there fine. When we left, my instinct was to reverse direction and backtrack. She said that Waze would do the thinking. I knew it was wrong at the first turn. I would have gone right, but Waze went left. Instead of heading south we were heading east along the back roads. I politely mentioned that this looked wrong as we were now too far east and the connecting south roads were leading us to other towns. My friend then said that it should be right as she entered her address into the system. That was her mistake. She was not going home. She was going to my house. Waze is not a mind reader. We were now miles away from the correct route and my friend didn't know how to reenter my address. I told her to shut off the Waze and I would be her "Suze" and direct her home. With a few lefts and rights we were back on track and home in 15 minutes. It is nice to have an app, but it is better to have a brain.

Sunshine

Yesterday was the first snow of the year. While it looked menacing yesterday, it looks beautiful this morning. The deciding factor was sunshine. If you add sunshine to anything it becomes beautiful. Sunshine on a wall brings out the rich colors. Sunshine on gemstones make the facets glow. Sunshine on grass makes each strand on a blade vibrant. To quote John Denver, "Sunshine on my shoulders makes me smile".