Windows Upgrade and First Harvest

Woke up this morning and already had over 3,000 steps on my Fitbit.  According to the recorded data, I was quite active between 8 AM and 9 AM.  As far as I can tell I was sleeping.  These little 'bits' that 'count' steps are not perfect.  If I sit in my chair and swing my right arm, it thinks I am walking.  From time to time I will find I have been doing things in my sleep.  I know I was sleeping... this morning I had wakened and turned the vibrating in my bed.  I was asleep and dreaming, some really strange dreams.  Unsettling dreams, as they were about people from my past and living in strange places and difficult interactions with those people.  I was happy to wake up and then wondering what I was actually doing besides being curled up in my 'amusement park' bed.

Today was a good day.  I did not get a great deal accomplished here at home.  I did, however, have more fun with computers.  I went to the church a little after noon.  It had been determined that we should take advantage of the free upgrade from Microsoft to Windows 10 on the media laptop in the sanctuary.  That offer is ending at the end of July.  So I went in, kicked off the upgrade and then spent some time talking to Pastor Randy about a couple of programs that I am involved in.  Headed back upstairs and the Upgrade was almost done.  I watched as things finished up, turned on the projectors to the screens and the first one started flickering and acting like a strobe light.  It would not turn off with the remote, it would not turn off with the emergency stick to the on/off button.  It just sat there and flickered.

I was beginning to sweat, my body's reaction to stress.  I was afraid that perhaps Windows 10 would not work with the projectors.  Or some professional tweaking might be needed.  But, bottom line, I had to get the projector shut down.  So I called Nelson, one of the Elders and the person who comes in and fixes everything.  He came and got up on a tall step ladder, unplugged the projector.  Then we rebooted the computer, turned the projectors back on and they booted up just fine and everything projected.  I will go back in tomorrow with the songs list for Sunday and try it all again, just to be sure.

Then I came home and did my first veggie harvest.  I picked half of the bean plants and got in the little grape (but they look more like cherry) tomatoes,  This is what I ended up with:

Not a bad first harvest.  It has been a long time since I had a vegetable garden.  I have not pinched off the suckers on the tomatoes, so I will have more tomatoes but they will be smaller.  While I thought I had spaced things OK, I will need to enlarge the garden next year to spread things out.  My poor peppers are lost in the tomatoes.  But the eggplant is managing to survive.  In fact, there is an eggplant that is close to being ready to be picked and at least three more growing.  And the regular tomatoes are showing signs of ripening.  Bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches are in my near future.

I cooked only half of the picked beans, just had the little tomatoes to eat along with some Hamburger Helper.  The fresh veggies were picked and on my plate in 90 minutes.  They were so, very tasty!!!  Look at the finished plate!!!

Yummy, yummy.