Good News
The 12 x 12 website is back up and running and now everyone can see the wonderful variety of “Illumination” quiilts we’ve all made.
My personal technical difficulties got worse before they got better. Just as I found a free wifi spot and prepared to email some photos to family, the laptop died. So, this will continue to be a photo-free blog for a little while longer. We also had some delayed-in-the-mail issues with our one credit card that left me without backup on the very days I needed to extent the rental car and pay for 10 days in the hotel, plus quite a few meals. Normally, having only one credit card keeps us reined in on spending (not that we’re big spenders anyway), but last week I could see the benefit of having a second card. Lastly, we won’t get phone/internet hook-up in the new house until the 19th unless the company can squeeze us in earlier. Bummer — I was looking forward to internet from the house next week.
The good news: I got my Palm Pilot up and running again after remembering the reset button on the back. I can also get power to the laptop (and therefore charge the Palm) when I plug it in, even though the screen is now completely black. This lets me know though, that when my in-house technical support is back in the house, and our desktop computers are unpacked, that we’ll be able to retrieve data from the dead laptop. It did have a verrrrrrry long and happy life, so I’m not complaining. And, my MIL is letting me borrow a cell phone. I was thinking I didn’t need it after all since we’ve got a rental house now and free local calls from the hotel, but that week between when we move out of the hotel and into the house and when the phone tech comes to hook up our service, it will nice to have the cell phone.
Let the adventures in moving across continents continue!!
Creative endeavors will have to wait until I can upload photos…
August 5th, 2008 at 12:11 am
This move has certainly been a demonstration of Murphy’s law! It is full of “creative endeavors,” they seem to be more focused on survival than fiber arts.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:06 am
Egads! Hopefully all of this angst of getting settled and the glitches will soon be behind you and you will have peace and calm in paradise. I can’t wait to see photos with palm trees and Hawaiian shirts. When is Mr Incredible showing up?
August 5th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Gosh Kristin, I wish I were on the same island as you! I’d totally help you out! Call me when you get a chance, if you e-mail me privately I’ll send you my phone# which is a local call for you! I’d love to catch up! Robin
August 5th, 2008 at 10:01 am
good to see you’ve arrived – I’ve read back and am happy to see the bag arrived before you left and that you can use it
hope to see more soon (and the illumination quilt is great!).
August 5th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Gerrie, that is open to some debate. I am suppose to be in school until early October, but my new unit in Hawaii has asked that I graduate early in order to go there to prepare to deploy back to Iraq.