04042020

looked at the inside weather boy and saw the date
so I tried the digital date

Kinda has a neat appearance.

In the Star, all sorts of stories of people who socialized about two weeks ago and
Now, they can tell their survival tale

Weather, clouded over and still
44 F going for 54
Winds WSW 1mph   Pressure up  w / sun for12 h 54m

Our CoViD 19 story / or not.
How to occupy yourself. Try to get Sype working.
This was a two day experiment < not all day, only some hours,  still whiled the day away > w/ aggro and beer for solace.
What I discovered. The third party service for long distance is having issues. The connections are intermittent at best.
Next, I turned to Skype or internet phoning. In all, I made 12 attempts to call out to the U.S. I uninstalled and re - installed or newly installed 3 versions of Skype.
In the end, it seems a) you ignore the +1 appellation that appears automatically. Start new w/ " 1 " and then the phone number. b) wait b/c it takes a while for the system to find a connection.
The beer < lager > was good, tho'

M came up w/ on line ordering for groceries. Conservatively, she spent 6 - 10 hrs ordering the groceries and 6 - 7 hrs doing an edit to add supplies during the 3 WEEK waiting period for the original order.
The system was under intense load. You kept ordering until there was a window in the queue and then your order was accepted
Thus, we creatively killed time