Thursday July 24th... already?

Another busy day today (I am still on Thursday time, haha). I did some more work cleaning up in the carport, then went to town. I bought some bulk Georgia Peach Rooibos tea (love the stuff), then went to a computer shop I deal with. You see, last July I bought a laptop and this June the wireless card quit working. It was about a month before warranty ran out, but to get it fixed under warranty would mean the store where I bought it would have to send it back to HP and it would be gone for at least 3 weeks. Totally not acceptable!! So I decided to get it fixed in town. I took it to Simon who runs the computer shop and he said it would be better to get a wireless adapter rather than a new card, and cheaper too, so fine. He ordered it in and when it got here it turned out to be the wrong one for my laptop... it takes a special one that costs a lot more. Well, too late for the warranty, so had to go for it. Cost me $100.80 to have that done today. When he went to install the software for it, he discovered that the CD/DVD rom/burner is not working either... and this will be a very large bill to pay. Had I sent it to HP, they likely would have found that too and it would be fixed. I only used it a couple times and had no idea it had quit working.

I am having a technical difficulty and have to reboot before I can finish this post. It is almost 2:30am, so I am going to just shut it down and finish this in the morning. Night night all.

Okay.... It's taken me all day to get back to this, but here I am. I went to a liquidation store and bought some odds and sodds stuff, then went and bought myself a metal water bottle. Rather pricey, but I think it's a good idea for carrying water with me. I just don't trust any of the plastic water bottles I can refill since I had a bad experience. One day I went to have a drink and it smelled like paint thinner or some other chemical like that.

After all that, I went to my Spiritual Centre and made up the programs for Sunday. I won't be there this Sunday, but still must do my work. I ran out of time so was not able to assemble them, but at least they are printed out and cut to size, ready to assemble into the covers.

From there I drove to the lake where our Dragon Boat practice was to be. We had a later than planned start as we had to wait for another Dragon Boat to be unloaded as the women's team (Dragon Riders) was to use the one boat already on the water. It worked out that they were still on the water when we were for some time, so we had the great opportunity to race them... twice. They had 20 paddlers on board while we only had 14 show up for the practice. Well, some of the paddlers belong to both teams, so for the practice were with the ladies team, not ours, and some had other commitments. I believe we will have 22 for this weekend. Anyway, so we raced them and both times we won by a large amount. We were all pretty proud and happy about that. Both of these races were approximately 250 meters. Later I sure felt it in my arms. I haven't been that sore in awhile, haha.

On Saturday we will have 2 races of 200m and one of 500m... Sunday for sure 1 of 500m and if after we win that one we will be given another 500m race. If anyone would like to come and give me back and arm rubs this weekend, I would be most grateful. Also please bring oxygen!!