While eating lunch, I heard a song. I could not identify the artist. My iPhone informed me it was Castle on the Hill by Ed Sheeran. I was surprised. The chorus did not sound like him.
At home, I tried to find the song on YouTube. Had to google songs by Ed Sheeran where he talks about friends. Here is the chorus:
We had stored the mattress in our carport. Today I took out the trash cans by myself to prop up the mattress on the curb. Oops. There was still snow piled there from the street plowing. Luckily, it was somewhat warm. And it had rained. So, I just had to shovel a lot of ice/snow.
I called up Little Kat and my brother. We dragged the mattress to the curb. Made sure the plastic cover had the whole mattress protected. I later put some tape to keep the cover on. I also put 2 signs on the mattress with TRASH labels. I had to adjust a light trash can on one side, so the mattress did not topple the can.
Finally I bent the large new Casper mattress box and stuffed it half way into the recyclables container. Let's hope the collection people come and take everything away tomorrow. Sure beats hauling everything to the dump, which is in our county, but very far away.
I went home. Called my credit card company. The first person I talked to said somebody else would know what to do. I spoke with another guy. He could not figure out why the charge did not go through. He said everything was okay with my account.
That night, I picked up dinner for the family at Popeye's. Again, my card declined. I paid with cash. This time, I called up my credit card company and said the card keeps declining. I gave them the info from my card. They said another card was sent and activated. My card was now defunct.
There were no fraudulent transactions on my card. I have been using this card for around a month since I got it. I think something was screwed up at the credit card company. Their only idea was to send me another card. I scrambled to change my recurring payments to use another credit card I have.
The delivery was scheduled for today. The window for delivery was partially when Little Kat was at work. So, I left work early and manned the door until Little Kat came home. Then I turned it over to him and went to pick up dinner for the family.
When I got home, I saw an empty Casper box in our library. Guess the delivery happened on time. I eventually went to bed early. I needed to know the name of the next Mindy Kaling e-book I wanted to read. My list was down in the library on the family computer.
I came downstairs and found a strange light on. There was also a phone on the counter playing a video. I called out for Little Kat. Eventually I heard him downstairs. He was struggling, trying to bring up his old mattress. I tried helping him. We just could not move the large, heavy, bendy item up. I asked my brother for help.
We three struggled but brought the bed upstairs. There we put the county required plastic cover over the mattress. This was so bulky trash would come pick it up for disposal. Finally, we three dragged the mattress out onto our carport. I told the boys I would need help dragging it to the curb for trash day.
I needed to remove the old PC from our library desk. There was a lot of junk and dust under the desk. We had Little Kat bring up a card table from his room. I laid out all the on the desk in front of the old family PC monitor. Plus everything I found under the desk. Momoko and Little Kat sorted through it.
Setup of the mini PC took a while. Windows downloaded updates as part of the first boot up. The new monitor I got had the thing tilting way too far forward. I had to stick a piece of lumber under the base to keep it straight. I realized the family PC has a great sound system. I want it.
I eventually installed TurboTax, now that we have a Windows 11 desktop computer. I am almost ready to file. But one of my brokers does not have my tax documents ready. Step up your game bro.
I attempted to install it on our family computer. Failed. TurboTax now requires Windows 11. Our family computer is stuck on Windows 10. It struggles with Windows 10. Probably no chance we could upgrade to Windows 11 and have it work.
I got a laptop with Windows 11. Momoko uses Mac. But I want this thing installed on our family computer. Time for a new computer. Prices seem to have jumped. I found a tiny form factor computer (4 inches by 4 inches) for under $250. The catch is that it does not have a VGA monitor output. Only HDMI.
My only other option was a standard desktop computer for around $350. It was going to take a lot longer to get it delivered. I decided to go with the tiny one that comes tomorrow. I also purchased a 27 inch HDMI monitor to go with it.
I was surprised when a pickup truck with a snow plow came to our cul de sac. The guy did a mid job. But there was a single lane down the street. To get to it, I had to shovel from our driveway to the place where the plow made it. This let our car get out. We tried a lunch run. It was good until some GMC came from the opposite direction, almost getting us stuck.
The trash guys came a couple days late. I put out my trash on time. Kept adding more bags and cans. I saw the mail truck in the neighborhood. It took me two days to dig out our mailbox. I saw the mailman on our street. But half way down, he pulled into a driveway, turned around, and left. Slacked.
