MONDAY

Wow, what a day. Mike got here about 10:30 and off we went to Office Depot. We spent time looking at laptops and I got this one, which I like a lot and which was one on sale remarkably low-priced. Went from there to Barnes & Nobel, where Mike and I browsed; he bought four books, I none; since I mentioned before, I'm working on four of them already. We were pleased to run into Greg at B & N; he was looking for a particular Chinese cookbook. It's good to know he'll join us on Thanksgiving, 

I suggested the Stone Fire Grille for lunch and that's where we went. Had a good lunch, then took off for my place. There, Mike started working on transferring data and setting up my new laptop...

...let us draw a curtain over the drama that ensued--suffice it to say that Mike declared me an nincompoop (the apple doesn't fall far from the tree) and I cut him out of my will. Okay, okay, it wasn't quite that bad, but it's true I'm  not exactly the Internet Genius of the Year.  The worse thing was this blog. I won't even go into the problems, but they entailed my old email address which I haven't used for years and the good one  Happily however , thanks to Mike, it was resolved and the thing is set up.

We had called Yandoo Communication to  come out tomorrow in case the issues couldn't be solved, but were able to cancel after Mike did his thing.

El asked me over again today and I'll take the Access Van again. I asked to get to Ojai at 10:30 and they're picking me up between 8:30 and 9:15 or something, so much earlier than needed, but that's okay, I guess.