You'll Shoot Your Eye Out and Other Bits and Pieces

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I think I'm back in blogland in full force.   But the reason for that will come later in the post.
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Some of my bloggy fans have asked "where exactly are you in Wisconsin?"  Well, if you tried to put your finger down right in the middle of the state,  you would probably hit me right on top of the head.

No, I am NOT worried that you are a serial killer and that you are going to come across the world to find me and do away with me.  I'm far more worried about the crazies down the street, so to speak, than I am of crazies on the other side of the globe just waitin' for me to post my location so that out of all the wold population they can rush to Wisconsin and do away with me.
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On Thursday evening these two, Natasha and Adrian, spent HOURS with Fisherhubby and me helping us get a bunch of new technology.

They were WONDERFUL and we thank them.
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Here is my new lappy.  True, he is not the gorgeous Badger Red of my old lappy, but he works and works well which is a definite advantage over a dead lappy.

Besides, perhaps one day I will get him a shiny Badger Red skin, if he is a very good boy and deserves it.
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He has moved onto my computer desk and I am already busy learning all about his inner workings.  

I'm already able to put pictures on him, edit them, and post them to my blog.

He's already MILES AHEAD of Mr. Mac in that regard.

But he is NOT the only new technology I acquired on our weekend jaunt to parts north of here.

No siree bob, he is not.
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I decided it was time to surrender the old dinosaur who couldn't even take a picture and who was YEARS past being due for an upgrade and move up in the world - - -
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To a tablet smart phone.

Meet Mr. Galaxy Note II.   

The learning curve of the switch has been made a lot easier due to the fact that I've been using a Galaxy Tablet (not a phone, just a tablet) for a year and a half now.

HOWEVER - - - there was still a major glitch.

When Adrian synced my phone numbers from the dinosaur onto the Note II, A LOT more than just phone numbers transferred over.

I opened my phone contacts back at the hotel only to discover that EVERY STINKIN' ONE OF MY Yahoo e-mail contacts were in the phone contact list along with the desired phone contacts.

I betook myself back to B _ _ _  B _ _ and asked a savvy little gal what to do.  She kindly showed me how to HIDE the e-mail contacts from the phone list.

I spent more than an hour, reclined on the hotel bed, hiding e-mail contacts from my phone.

Then I tried to send an e-mail to someone - - - possibly one of YOU my dear bloggy friends, one of you who may have left me a comment on my blog, I don't rightly remember - - - only to discover that ALL BUT 3 of my email contacts were GONE out of my Yahoo account.

No, don't bother to TELL me that this cannot happen because Yahoo email STORES the contacts on the web and not on my phone.

They were gone.   Gone I tell you, GONE.

I tried, to no avail, everything I could think of to get them back - - - including googling "how to unhide phone contacts."

To absolutely NO AVAIL.

I went back to B _ _ _  B _ _ and the same little savvy gal couldn't find them either.

She scratched her head and said, "This shouldn't have happened."

Well, I KNEW that much and I can just tell you I felt pretty "sunk" to hear her say it.  If SHE didn't know how to get them back, I was afraid all was lost.

Well, it took her about an hour - - - but she got them back.  Should this ever happen to you, look for a folder in the settings of your yahoo e-mail account that says  "Deleted Contacts" open it and click the option to restore them.

My only issue now is I have unsynced my yahoo from my phone in an effort to NOT have this happen again so now I have no e-mail addresses on my phone when I open my yahoo email, and that isn't optimal either.

Sigh.

Why does technology have to be so much smarter than me?
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This is one of the first pictures I took using my new phone.  Our son, Kyle, upon receiving this as a text message from me, said his dad looks like a northerner who embraces winter.

Truer words were hardly ever spoken.
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On Sunday afternoon as we returned to the hotel from FH's cross country ski and my snowshoe romp across frozen Hayward Lake, I noticed this icicle hanging over our heads.

"You'll shoot your eye out!"  I said, thinking that was a ginormous icicle.
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 Until I noticed THIS icicle on the other side of the door which is capable of shooting out MANY MORE eyes than was the first.

And that's all there is to this report of our weekend activities in the northwoods.  There will be a bit more news to come later.

TTFN
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