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This is not my day. If called upon to list everything that could go wrong, I would just give a list of what did go wrong today. First, my computer erased all of my bookmarks and favorites…and along with them, the only way I know to access my blog to write a new blog, view stats, correct an old blog, to read the blogs of others. Not to mention how to access Wordle! It may be obvious to you how to do so, but I am, first of all, directionally challenged. Always have been. I have to figure out one way to do things or to go places and then always do it that way…and the way I know how to get to everything I do on my computer is via my bookmarks and favorites bar. So, after hours and hours of trying to accomplish tasks, none of which worked out, I went out to swim, only to discover that Pasiano had not told the new gardener to empty the pool and fill it with warm water. Nor did he tell him not to leave the gates open and so Zoey got trapped between the fence and the wall and was crying pitifully which made a trip out in the driving rain necessary. Why do I have a new gardener, you ask? the horrible answer is that the same day I narrowly missed being the witness to a shooting in Peoria, Arizona, Pasiano was walking on the sidewalk in Ajijic and a sharp piece of metal flew off the back of a passing truck carrying welding supplies and hit him on the side of the head–of course slicing his head open and knocking him out. Surgery was completed at a local hospital and he is now recovering at home but can’t work for a month. What was my near miss? My sister and I came out of the Safeway store in Peoria, Arizona, after a short 20 minute shopping expedition to find our car as well as a number of cars in our area of the parking lot fenced in by a long yellow crime tape, and in the lanes in front of our car was a fire truck, ambulance, four police cars and too many policemen to count. It seems that a man had been shot in truck a few cars away from us and the woman who shot him had escaped. Later we found she had driven to a nearby lot and committed suicide. The man, on the other hand, did not die, but it occurred to us that the shooting must have occurred very close to the time we left our car and went into the store as only 20 minutes had passed between our going into the store and returning to our car and already the lot was full of emergency vehicles when we came out. All-in-all, quite a momentous week.
Now, I seek escape. No pool. No computer. Three attempts to order a set of sheets on Mercado Libre did not pan out in the end…always some glitch. Perhaps I’ll try to watch the movies I couldn’t get to work in my video player before I left to go to Arizona…Crossed fingers. The jinx can’t go on forever. I am so glad Pasiano will recover… that should cancel out all my petty complaints. Shut up, Judy. Just. Shut. Up!!!!!
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
That all sounds rather trying, Judy! I hope things settle down and get sorted out and back to normal.
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Thanks, Eileen. Now it has spread to WordPress, which won’t let me change my password. I think I have somehow offended the Gods. Of else I need to give up and admit I’m too old for this whole confusion the Internet has turned into.
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I wouldn’t blame you for throwing up your hands at it all!
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This is indeed a lot of trouble coming all at once. Hugs
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Thanks, Sadie…It just keeps coming. More today. Would you rather I called you Sadie? I am rather attached to Sadje…ha.
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You can call me Sadie, I’d like that. Take care and I hope things start getting better now. Hugs
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Good to know your gardener will be okay. And you saved little Zoey from being trapped. For the bookmarks, awhile back mine disappeared.Finally found them. They were always on the left side of my screen, and now they were on the right side, under ‘other bookmarks, and also there is some little arrow deals in front of that, and there are lots more. Hope that is of some help. 🙂
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Yes, I’ve always had those “other bookmarks” but the favorite ones were on the top. Now none of them are there. Some are in another browser, presented in a completely different manner, on a different screen in boxes placed over the entire screen, but I miss my easy ones there in a strip across the top of my Chrome browser screen. Thanks for responding…
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Some days are like that! I have recently had a string of such days and every time I think I have put one issue to bed another arises to keep me on my toes!
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Wish I was still driving to States. I’d drive up to see my friends in Washington and Oregon, then down to see you, then to friends in Santa Cruz and Boulder Creek, relatives in California and Arizona plus another blogging friend in Texas…
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That’s a lot of driving. I would hope that you would have stopped in the Santa Cruz aea before coming to see me in Orange County! Or maybe I could drive north to Santa Cruz and Boulder Creek! Those were good days!
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so sad for you. I also h ave a horrendous time w computers abd I confess to loving “same ol, same ol’ “…
I often have meltdowns and son has to rescue me by groaning lloudly but geading toward computer room.
Id go back to typewriter days in a second. . Back then. ..Writing a book was too hard for so many who wanted to write. Now it’s easy for them w computers …but not for me.
my deepest sympathies…I know it.
Ann from cheyenne
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Thanks, Ann, for your sympathetic words. This morning I went out and discovered a few dead and wilted plants and realized the substitute gardener must not have watered the plants! Amazing that in yesterday’s rain, they didn’t get water enough, but those under cover had new growth all dried and dead. in addition, he didn’t put water in pool and I was looking forward to pool exercise. Now no new water until Monday as it fills when new water comes in MWF. I called to talk to Pasiano’s wife but unfortunately she told him and they came to water… I made him sit in a comfy chair on the terrace under cover and served them coffee. Said I’d call another gardener I know but they insisted Patti, his wife, would water yard and plants. I caught him walking down to help so made him sit where I could see him. Decided I needed to get my mind off troubles so spent the rest of the day until now sorting through drawers and finding things to give away. I have a nice big sack of stuff for the gals to sort through when they come for lessons Monday… and I gave Pasiano’s wife two new blouses that I hadn’t worn yet but that looked better on her than me. And so the world spins…xo Judy
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Yikes! When it rains it pours! I do hope you get your computer whipped back in to shape! 🙂
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I do, too. So far, no go. Just keep finding more gone awry.
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