Monday, January 21, 2019 - Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - Getting some work done at Bentley; Cookout with Friends

Monday, January 21, 2019 - Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - Trying to get some work done at Bentley

It was cold this morning so we didn't walk, so after breakfast I was ready to take care of some business.

My goal today was to make some phone calls and take care of some paperwork for items that came in the mail on Friday.  After making three calls I realized it was Martin Luther King Day.   Keeping track of what day it is has been harder than I imagined since I retired.  

I managed to make a couple of phone calls.  We needed to go to Walmart - mostly to get a new color cartridge for the printer.  When I bought this printer I asked if the printer would work without a color cartridge.  The salesman told me it would work as long as the cartridge was in it - but I have discovered that was wrong information.  The printer has been giving me a message for several weeks that the color printer cartridge needs to be changed.  The printer finally quit working.  I'm not happy about it, but at this point what am I going to do?  We've had the printer for over a year now.  I have to think the ink either dried up or a portion of the color is used when printing in black ink, because I don't print in color.  Hopefully the next cartridge will last that long.    

Back at Bentley, I went back to work on printing the items I needed but another gremlin has taken over my printer.  I, ct would just not print.  Dean finally had to remove the printer name from the printer selections and set it to print to the cloud and now it works fine.  I'm so thankful he can figure these things out.  I get very frustrated and just want things to work!  Lol!

(Note, January 24, 2019 - Last night, Wed, Jan 23, I completed the blog through Jan 23, but when I published it, it did not print and when I went back to where I type in the blog - about half of Jan 21 and all of Jan 22-23 was gone.  So here I am recreating what I wrote about.  I've never had this happen before.)


Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - Cookout with Friends

We walked 15 miles this morning because we started a little late and I wanted to have time to get ready so I could go to the Bible Study here in the park this morning.  I got back to Bentley about 11.  

Jack and Lynette invited us over for brauts and the fixings this evening, so I got busy making phone calls:  ordered new prescriptions, called Verizon to discuss a jetpack; called Freeman Health about paying an ebill (when making payment it did not indicate who the bill was from); called my friend Drena to discuss our spring southern trip; called Escapees to discuss their mail service options; and submitted a health insurance questionnaire to FMCA Health Insurance; and double checked to be sure we had all of our reservations for our Colorado trip in June. 

It was a productive day and my desk looks so much better.

About 4:30 or so we walked over to Jack and Lynette's, and everyone else showed up shortly before 5.  We had a great meal of brauts on buns, salad, chips/dip and veggies, baked beans and beverage of choice.  Jack had to cook then in the electric frying pan because the wind was so strong his grill would not stay lit.  He cut them half way through to cook them.  I'm not sure I'll ever have brauts the regular way again.  They cooked much faster this way.  He found some buns that were a little wider and the brauts fit perfectly in them for a great sandwich.  The rest of the meal was delicious.  Nancy made homemade tapioca pudding.  It's been years since I've tried it, but I really liked it - much to my surprise!  We had a nice visit with everyone and we left for home (across the street) around 7-7:30.