Don’t ever think that you can’t __________.
You can. I have. I am.
Ivan, and I had a list of things that needed doing that is the length of my arm. He’s not with me anymore, so the list is now mine. I’m taking my time doing the things on that list, but I’m going to do them. I will get them done.
So far, I’ve fixed the small window screen in our bathroom that I tried to fix 2 years ago. I wasn’t able to, so I started showering in the guest bathroom across the hall. The screen had been at an angle, looking as if it would fall out of the window. I couldn’t get it back in alignment, and closed. That bothered me so that I couldn’t shower in there.
Not long after Ivan passed, I got the step stool, (I really need to get a small ladder), and a flat head screw driver, put the tip in the edging of the screen, and within minutes, pulled the screen back in, and aligned it to the window. Job done. I have since returned to showering in our ensuite bathroom.
Ivan used to sit in his plush rocking chair just inside the spare bedroom across the hall from our bedroom, at a small plastic table we bought at Costco, (we both had the same set up), with his monitor, Mac mini, and his keyboard. He had a solid internet connection because the modem was just behind him, sitting on the top of the headboard of the spare bed.
I, on the other hand, sitting at the table in the living room, got sporadic reception. In fact, so little reception that I usually sat at my little Costco table with my iPad Pro, and a bottle of water, across the hall in our bedroom.
In our bedroom has been this large circle of internet cable, about 15ft in length, that I’ve successfully hidden behind my chair, trying to ignore it, hoping it would go away. However, when I disassembled Ivan’s set up, and brought the Mac mini out to the living room, and set it up there using the Vizio tv that has been gathering dust for 4 years, I wondered how I could get better reception than what I was getting.
Duh! I went back to the spare bedroom where the modem had been, looked at the cable coming in, and tried to figure out how to get more length so I could take the modem out to the living room. Then the light came on. Take the cable from our bedroom, down the hall to the living room, and connect the modem to that.
So, I did. Our good friend Jesús, (used to be the concierge here until recently), came over today, and tacked the cable up over the tops of the bedroom doors, and down the hallway for me, and now I have consistent internet in the living room.
I still have many things I want to do, but I’ll get them done poco a poco. Little by little. I’m not going anywhere soon.
Until next time, stay happy, and healthy in the Lord.