Sarah left for school this morning. With any luck, this will be her final year before graduation. I'm not sure exactly what she will do yet. If she decides to stay with PA school, she'll have to take a couple of extra classes, which means no graduation in May. If she goes with just getting the human biology BS and intends to go get an advanced nursing degree, she could graduate in May, but she'll have to take 17 credits this semester and 16 in the spring. Or, she could split it up so she doesn't have as many credits, and graduate next December. We'll have to see how this semester goes.
In any event she packed up her car last night (for the most part), finished putting a few things in today, and she was gone by noon. Unfortunately, she couldn't get everything loaded up in her car, so I told her we'd drive up the few things she left tomorrow. I figured that if we left early, we could be back home by 3:00. Plenty of time to finish prepping the driveway to get resealed on Monday.
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Thursday, August 29, 2019
A New Computer
After the hassle of the last couple of days with backing up phones, and syncing to iTunes we have FINALLY decided to get a new desktop computer for Kris. THe whole problem had been the fact that we were still using the Dell we bought as the extra computer for Sarah to do her homework on when she was in either 5th of 6th grade. I think it was 5th, but I could be wrong. It was originally a Windows XP operating system, and I upgraded it one to Vista. It had been slow, but was good enough for what Kris used it for. Until of course Microsoft stopped supporting the OS. Since then its performance has been getting progressively worse.
The last straw was when I found out that I could not update iTunes to handle Kris's new phone. After discussing it, we decided to bite the bullet and get a new one. The good thing is that we only needed a new tower. No need to get a new monitor, or keyboard, etc. In addition, it was on sale so I also saved almost $100 on it. Now, we should be completely updated in both phones and computers for the foreseeable future.
The last straw was when I found out that I could not update iTunes to handle Kris's new phone. After discussing it, we decided to bite the bullet and get a new one. The good thing is that we only needed a new tower. No need to get a new monitor, or keyboard, etc. In addition, it was on sale so I also saved almost $100 on it. Now, we should be completely updated in both phones and computers for the foreseeable future.
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
New Phones
It was finally time. Everyone on the family needed a new phone, and I finally went ahead and replaced them. We have been an AT&T family for somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 years. It is probably more like 16 or 17. I think we switched when I started my job at Krueger Bearings. We have been with them since before they were AT&T, they were still known as Cingular Wireless. So that tells you how long it has been. But at first it was just me and Kris. Then we added a phone for Sarah when she started middle school, and the same for Ali, though I think we may have gotten her phone when she was in 5th grade. But they were always add-ons. It was never a whole sale replacement of phones, mainly because of the timing and cost.
Since I contacted AT&T to see if we could get a deal on phones since we have been customers for so long, but they couldn't do anything for me. Amazing that if I were a new customer, I could have gotten four new phones for the price of two, but because I have been a loyal customer for 15 plus years, they said, sorry. Well I said sorry too and decided to change carriers. Verizon had a BOGO deal going so I took it. And we pretty much end up paying the same amount, except for the monthly charge for two of the four phones. I guess I'll have to start playing "the game" of switching services every few years now to get the newest phones for the best price.
There was a small problem though when I picked them up last night. The girl at the Verizon store asked if I had ported the old number. I thought that meant transfer, so I said yes. And then when I got home Kris informs me that all of a sudden, no one had any service on the old, existing phones. My plan had been to set them up one at a time, making sure to transfer everything and ensure the new phone was working properly before deactivating the old one. That plan went out the window and I spent the rest of last night setting up Kris's phone as well as the girls. And what a mess, because first they wouldn't transfer, then I found out that the sim cards in the phones were mixed up, Sarah had Kris's number, Kris had Ali's, and Ali had Sarah's. I also found out that the version of iTunes on Kris's desktop was not compatible with the newest iOS. Which meant before transferring data, I had to set up profiles on my laptop for everyone, sync their phones (which took about 60-90 minutes each) before I could get everything transferred to the new phones. I spent a total of 9.5 hours doing it so everyone had their phone set up for when they woke up in the morning. The only one who didn't have a phone was me. Luckily it still worked over the wifi, so I could text if I needed to, plus I actually just got a new phone for work, so I could use that one until I got my phone set up. So now we should be good for the next 2-3 years.
Since I contacted AT&T to see if we could get a deal on phones since we have been customers for so long, but they couldn't do anything for me. Amazing that if I were a new customer, I could have gotten four new phones for the price of two, but because I have been a loyal customer for 15 plus years, they said, sorry. Well I said sorry too and decided to change carriers. Verizon had a BOGO deal going so I took it. And we pretty much end up paying the same amount, except for the monthly charge for two of the four phones. I guess I'll have to start playing "the game" of switching services every few years now to get the newest phones for the best price.
There was a small problem though when I picked them up last night. The girl at the Verizon store asked if I had ported the old number. I thought that meant transfer, so I said yes. And then when I got home Kris informs me that all of a sudden, no one had any service on the old, existing phones. My plan had been to set them up one at a time, making sure to transfer everything and ensure the new phone was working properly before deactivating the old one. That plan went out the window and I spent the rest of last night setting up Kris's phone as well as the girls. And what a mess, because first they wouldn't transfer, then I found out that the sim cards in the phones were mixed up, Sarah had Kris's number, Kris had Ali's, and Ali had Sarah's. I also found out that the version of iTunes on Kris's desktop was not compatible with the newest iOS. Which meant before transferring data, I had to set up profiles on my laptop for everyone, sync their phones (which took about 60-90 minutes each) before I could get everything transferred to the new phones. I spent a total of 9.5 hours doing it so everyone had their phone set up for when they woke up in the morning. The only one who didn't have a phone was me. Luckily it still worked over the wifi, so I could text if I needed to, plus I actually just got a new phone for work, so I could use that one until I got my phone set up. So now we should be good for the next 2-3 years.
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