New Year Begins

New Year BeginsWe had a very quiet family dinner with my Mom and Sister over the holidays.  While my mom was in Virginia with her sister she and her sis were making beaded bracelets and necklaces and my mom presented us with her hand made gifts for holiday gifts.  She did a wonderful job!  We all sat around after dinner having coffee and watching the "House" marathon.

I wore the new shirt I got from my secret Santa and the new shoes I got from a GON member who granted my wish.  I was thrilled to have a long sleeve shirt to wear and nice warm shoes.  There is no smoking permitted at my sisters house anymore as she quit.  So we have to go out on the porch for smoke breaks.  Those warm shoes came in really handy since her front porch is brick and really cold!

Our new year always begins with Amy's birthday.  Amy turned 32 years
old on Jan 1 this year.

Happy Birthday to my best friend and life partner!!!

We celebrated her birthday with a midnight dinner at Ihop in Aiken SC

My computer gave out on me around the 30th of December and my son hooked me up with his computer.  After we got it all hooked up and I installed the Ubuntu operating system the computer kept shutting off.  Come to find out my last large hard drive was short circuiting.  I moved quickly to transfer all files I could in between shutdowns so that I am now running off two smaller drives.  Hopefully I will get another hard drive sometime in Feb.

I'm glad to be back on the Linux operating system though.  I have always hated MS Windows but wound up going back on windows when my last hard drive blew because the drive I plugged in was too small to do much with.  Since then I had done some computer upgrades for folks and got a few more scrapped drives and was just waiting for the right time to switch OS's well the computer failure presented the perfect time for me.

That is about it for now....not much happening these days.