Post Thanksgiving

After Thanksgiving comes the SHOPPING.   Black Friday, Small Business Saturday (ie shop locally) and then it will be Cyber Monday.

 

I did go out yesterday to see if I could find a skirt.   Silly me.   I had forgotten that Oklahoman women  don't wear skirts, they are still dressed for the rugged frontier.  The local department store had rows and rows of blue jeans and trousers, but not a skirt in sight.  I'll have a little foray into M&S when I come over.

 

So the only 'bargain' I ended up with was 5 boxes of chocolate cake mix for $5.   That will be enough cakes for the kiddos for two or three Wednesdays.

 

This morning, Saturday, I was running round town doing my errands.  I called on my friend Jay to see if she would feed Bubbles while I am away, and to my ENORMOUS joy and relief said she would be pleased to, she wasn't going anywhere.

 

Then I had to go to the AT&T store, the local wireless provider because all of a sudden my C-Nook was demanding a Wi-Fi Password before I could read anything (WHAT!! no one has ever told me about that, where am I supposed to find that??  Life in the 21st century is becoming just too trying for me.    I went online for support and got one of those supercilious young men who have no patience with little old ladies who don't know what they are talking about.   He looked me up and got hold of my cell phone records, so that didn't get us anywhere.

So  I go into the AT&T store at the Mall and I am met at the door by a very gracious young woman who informed me my Wi-Fi password is on the back of my router.   And Lo and Behold it was.  Who Knew!!   Certainly not the supercilious young man who should have done.

I wrote the above paragraph this morning, and it is now evening and I went back to the issues with my C Nook (can I hear you saying "why doesn't she just pick up a printed book with paper pages") That's all very well but I have got 107 books on my CNook, and I haven't read them all, not to mention the sequel of the one I have just finished which I am waiting to read.   Anyway, I got hold of a very nice, helpful agent this evening, Heidi (I have come to the conclusion that all customer service agents should be women, young men should be barred from jobs dealing with confused old women) and Heidi managed to download the book to my older device.  The problem with the newer one is the Wi-Fi connection, so I will be back to AT&T in the morning,  and at least their staff are helpful even if I don't reckon their Wi-Fi connection.

So after all that stress I am ready to call it a day, and read said book, albeit on the heavier, older device that doesn't glow.

But just a word about the weather, which has been lovely.  Blue skies, sunny, in the 70s.  I finally feel I am enjoying some summer.