A break in the taxing for 3 days of showcases

 Mon- Wed I was running nonstop at showcases. Very rewarding but tiring! Here is a post from the Museum of Healthcare that we worked with for one project:

https://twitter.com/MuseumofHealth/status/1783497005370614047

Taxing part 2

 I biked to work because I was expecting an amazon delivery when noone would be home and thought I could bike back during my lunch hour. But it turned out to be delivered by Amazon and not intelcom and that meant for some reason I didn't get any email notifications. The package was on the porch when I biked home at the end of the day. I was pretty tired after biking so I took a short nap. But that means that it is now almost 3am and I am still up.

I got a good chunk of taxing things done and am making good progress but still probably have another evening to finish up.

James drove to Montreal for the last Canadiens game and drove back arriving at 2am.

Taxing

 Had a long day at work, then came home and had some leftovers, then spent hours working on taxes. I think I have all the papers and am just working on getting everything in before starting the calculations.

Totality

 The eclipse was pretty neat, a great experience.

I painted the basement this week.

I didn't get as much done on Saturday as I planned as I hadn't slept well the night before.

Today I worked on getting all the tax documents ready and working on Rustle finance documents needed for the audit.

Eclipse clouds

 

http://xkcd.com/2915

Mancave

 The other half of the couch arrived and James has created a mancave in the basement.

James and I went to Ottawa yesterday. James watched a Senators gave. I visited with Julie. We walked around a mall and had some food. James did not have food, he just enjoyed the game.

Julie and I dropped James off at the gas station outside of the arena and though we were so smart as we could pick him up there after the game. However, many people had the same idea and there were a lot of cars there but Julie did a fantastic job of picking him up and squeezing into traffic to get us back to our car.

The drive home was in the dark and James had to swerve around a racoon but we made it home safely.

Tomorrow is the big day for the eclipse. There are road closures planned because of the volume of people expected.

Half a couch

 Half of the couch arrived yesterday. How it made it over the border, I don't know. Where the other half is, I don't know. James wrestled the half that we have down the stairs, hurting his back in the process. It is feeling better today.

Monday the students submitted their final project so there was a lot of things to coordinate yesterday and trainings to run.

One of the bridges into Kingston also has closed due to an element failing so there is one less entry point to the city.

South side

 I noticed that there were some roof tiles on the ground on the south side of the house. It is a bit difficult to see the roof at the south side. They looked like they matched my tile colour but the roof on the north,west and east looked fine. I had to walk out to the sidewalk to see the south side and it did look rough. I asked Al and he said that the south side always goes first, this is not unusual. So will need to be getting a new roof soon. 

Rustle was good. Full house for Easter and Baptisms.

Belleville

We stayed in a refurbished Church, complete with a confessional and a bar!

What are these footprints?

 

Eating Twinkies With God

Meals

We haven't been getting Chef's plate boxes as much as the recipes haven't been of much interest but this week we had a success.

On Wednesday I woke up about 5am feeling fine, had breakfast but around 8am I didn't feel so good. My stomach was upset and it felt like a cold coming on. So for dinner I chose the meal that I thought would be least irritating- lemony turkey meatballs in a soup with pearl couscous. It was a good choice as my stomach was happy with this.

On Thursday I made English Cottage Pie, which was a lot like Shepherds Pie. It had beef and sometimes that doesn't agree with me so I made sure to dab as much of the grease as I could and this was a success as well.

Yesterday I made pasta with bacon and sauce recipe. We had a similar recipe previously that didn't sit well with me I think maybe because the veggies cooked in the bacon fat. So this time I used very little of the bacon fat. This time the recipe also had a garlic spread that was part of the sauce and normally if they send real garlic I don't use it but I thought garlic sauce might be tamer and it did work out, the meal was also a success with lots of spinach and peas.

Today I picked up a large garden salad at Loblaws. Since I discovered that for $12 I get about 5 meals out of it, I have started to pick up 1 per week, so that is a meal win as well.

many calls

 On Friday I made the decision to switch from Cogeco to Bell. I needed to cancel Cogeco. They were closed on the weekend so needed to call on Monday. The message said that the wait time was 45 minutes. I waited 48 minutes and then needed to go to training. Called again and again got a message that the wait was 45 minutes. This time I left a callback message as it was the end of the day. The callback came around 8pm, may hours later. She was very lovely and made a new offer but I stuck with Bell and arranged to send back the equipment.

During the week, Bell called and texted a number of times during the week to confirm.

Today the technician arrived and put in the modem but wouldn't set it up because that "wasn't included". So I ended up having to call them to sort it out, but it is now up and running. The Cogeco is still running until tomorrow. I did not know that they could both be active at the same time, but apparently they can. The things that you learn!

Darlene

Darlene passed away a few days ago. She lived about 400x longer than expected!

Today I went to Food Basics then Rustle. Watched Elevation and vacuumed and cleaned.

Lots of training tomorrow! 

Fraud

 I went to pay the credit card bill yesterday and saw that from James' credit card there was a charge for Spotify. He does have a spotify account but it is paid from a different credit card. Since we have previously had a fraudulent Spotify charge on the account I checked with him and he had not created a new spotify account. The charge was very recent (Feb 28) so I called the credit card company right away and cancelled his card. So he is without a card until the new one arrives. It is very odd that they try such small amounts as Spotify is only about $10 a month. I wonder if there is some weakness in spotify that allows bots to try different credit card combinations until one sticks and then when they find that one actually makes an account they would try for larger purchases later. Or is there someone out there who needs a lot of spotify accounts? It is very odd.

Last summer I followed all the instructions to activate James as a student on my insurance but apparently it didn't work as I tried to pick up some medicine for his toe and the system did not have him. So I had to call them and get that sorted out. Today, now that it is processed I need to contact them to get some retroactive things done.

And it has been a few years since we started with cogeco and their "deal" that I started with that they promised would never go up, has gone up quite a bit. So Bell came by and offered a better deal so I need to call cogeco to break up with them. This always causes some anxiety in the house as we have to change the passwords for everything and get new things set up but the overall savings should pay off in the end. In order to get the Bell deal we had to sign up for a home phone. Not sure what to do with that but apparently we'll have another phone soon!

The slow defrost

 On Tuesday I had a dentist appointment and they froze part of my face. I asked how long it would last and they said a few hours. It was actually 8 hours. I worked the whole day with a frozen face!

How can it be March already?