The Little Support Tasks Kind of Day --- Day 44

Day 44

Our day first began with a call to Big Z's Great Grandfather for birthday celebration--- he's 88 today ;-).

We tuned into the AM radio broadcast and found all systems to be working fine without the Live Toolbar. Later in the day, we reinstalled the MPM Toolbar and we'll test it tomorrow to ensure all is functioning fine.

Called my Grandmother, on my Dad's side. We've only ever spent time together once, on a road trip when I was a little older than Big Z. My brother has lived near her now for a lot of years. We've recently shared a few emails and yesterday was a time to visit. We got to talk for about an hour, and it was good to connect to her, my Dad's Mom. She's 83 and her mom is still alive at 98. WOW.

While installing the IE MPM Toolbar, I also installed the FireFox version. A new MPM Toolbar is in the works for IE 8, for those of you who have the current version ;-).

I rounded up a friend who has a digital camera so she could take a photo of me for Live Chat. We finally connected and we now have on our want list a camera !!! How much easier to be able to take the pix yourself, and download it direct to your machine?

MPM Video with Lost Marble was able to get the videos to me today and they came through without a hitch. Big Z hasn't seen them yet with his info at the end, but when he does, he's going to have his chest puffed out . . . He's really happy to have his own business.

I printed off 3 Certificates for a fundraiser at Big Z's school. A Valentine's Basket raffle is happening. We chose the $300 grocery rebates, the $300 gas rebates and the 3 Days 2 Nights Hotel.

Happily, I redeemed my Grocery Rebate Certificate and have my vouchers to begin to collect $25/month for a year ;-). Makes this Mama very happy, indeed.

While looking in the phone book for a number on another project, I came across the name of an old neighbor who has an investment services business. His name was so bold and big that I've put him on our list to call about Big Z's endeavors . . .

I made a f/u call to a contact that I've been leaving messages for and missing. A return call came in at the same time I was leaving a VM, and it wound up being her boyfriend. He's a trucker, so we got to talk about the route he takes up in my town, and catch up on the reason he called my number back: They have a friend with my name. So, left a message with him as well and will call again on the weekend.

I spent time creating a bio and getting that pix to Nita at customer service.

I also wrote up the notes for Gary regarding the blogtalk issues that Aletha and I have been having at the request of Nita. In this way, he can help others who may have the same issues.

I went back to blogtalk radio to download today's show, and was able to listen to the show from the website with no troubles from MPM Toolbar. Since I was there, I took some notes on the conversation that Ginny and Tom had about the NPO's that Tom is working with and the process he's creating to reach them and add them to his pipeline.

The day felt more like a laundry list of necessary tasks, but it didn't really feel like we moved forward at all. I kept thinking of how many times over the years little projects with the computer have seemed to take hours and hours (I'm no techie with these devices, but am willing to self-service if I can). Updates, patches, firewalls, anti-virus, messengers, email, and now . . .

blogs, YouTube, Live Chat, Facebook, blogtalk radio . . . Whew! How many are like me and wish we had a technician could keep our computer systems running with ease, and, train us on all these new programs!!! My friend who took my photo asked, "Do you have a Photo Bucket account?" Photo Bucket? Sounds familiar. I created the account and found I really didn't understand how to navigate in it ;-). Ah, well. We'll just take it a step at a time. Bite-by-bite.