A lot happening this week compared to most…………………………..

As always, first the chronology:

11/2/25 – Sunday – Up around 8:30AM. For some reason we were not motivated today so we blew off church and went back to bed. I did some chores around the house. Then lunch and cleaned up. Out to Gary for the afternoon get together. home, picked up Kathy and up to Bob Evan’s for dinner. A stop at homedepot for some led lights that they didn’t have then home.

11/3/25 – Monday – up around 8AM. Kathy was out to the post office then she went over to have the whole in her car looked at. I did some computer work and played HAM radio. Kathy came home and we had lunch. Kathy left mid-afternoon to take Shelby to the dentist and I went for a nap. Got up when Kathy came home and we had dinner.

11/4/25 – Tuesday – up around 8AM. Kathy was busy almost all day preparing chili for dinner. Kathy had to take her car back over to get the estimate as they didn’t have time yesterday. I played HAM radio and made some CW contacts to POTA locations. Kathy came home and we had lunch. Then Kathy took off to pickup Shelby and take her over to Julie’s work while I hung out waiting for the furnace guy to come to do the routine stuff on the furnace. He never showed so I took a nap till Kathy came home. My friend Dave came over to have dinner with us as his wife was out of town. Usual evening routine.

11/5/25 – Wednesday – I was up at 6AM and off to work the rear entrance to the main courthouse. Had lunch at Country Mart with a couple co-workers. Worked till around 4:30. Stopped at Country Mart on the way home for more lunch meat, bananas and mild. Home and dinner. To bed early.

11/6/25 – Thursday – Up at 6AM and into work at the Circuit Court Clerks office from 7:30AM to 4PM. Had an hour off for lunch and did my usual Dairy Queen. Home and dinner and early to bed.

11/7/25 – Friday – Got the new computer for Kathy and I started backups on her old one. Spent the day setting things up doing the backups. Took a break for lunch and dinner. Usual evening routine.

11/8/25 – Saturday – up around 8AM and continued setting up Kathy’s new computer. Finished up around 4:30. Had dinner and usual evening routine.

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Now the specifics:

I am extremely tired as I do the blog this week so if something doesn’t make sense just ignore it and continue.

Kathy got concerned this week that Microsoft was not doing anymore security updates on her computer since it was Windows 10. I had it do a scan and she didn’t have the necessary hardware devices built in to upgrade to Windows 11. I told her to call her brother who does computer support on the side and ask him what his recommendations were. He said it could be upgraded but we agreed that since it was almost 10 years old it should probably be replaced. He had seen a computer at Walmart that was a little under $500. Of course it had no peripherals and a limited number of ports. But it was hard to bet the price. So we ordered one. It came sometime Thursday and Friday I started working on porting things over to it. Have I told you lately I hate Windows? Spent most of the day Friday and all day Saturday before I got it all done. Other than ordering some things like wireless keyboard and mouse and a CD/DVD read/writer it’s about done. She likes it so I guess all is good.

Made a few (well 4 to be exact) CW contacts with guys doing Parks On The Air (POTA). First time in 2 months I’ve actually had time to sit down, fire things up and do some HF work. Felt good. Hopefully I’ll have more time in the future.

The furnace guy was suppose to be here Tuesday but being out in the middle of sticks they sometimes don’t get out here. It’s not uncommon and it doesn’t bother me and I let it slide as they respond to a trouble call in minutes. Anyway, they will call back and reschedule next week.

Work was light this week. Only did Wednesday and Thursday. Next week will be even better as I’m only scheduled Thursday.

Back and leg are causing me grief. If I sit too long and stand, my back and left leg don’t want to let me walk. I have to take a minute and straighten up and lean back a little and the pain goes away. I thought at first it was my knees but I got a shot in it last Friday and that didn’t help. I have an appointment with pain and spine management next week and I’ll see what they have to say.

Well, that’s about it for this week. I’m not even going to pro-read this as I’m just too tired. As always, hope this finds you save and healthy. Stay that way and I’ll blog at you again next week.