These last few days at home are always the worst. My place looks like a homeless settlement, with stuff all over. In fact, for the next 6-8 weeks, I will be homeless sort of, so it is good practice. The only consolation is that all this stuff will soon back be packed away in 20 or so containers, boxes, etc., and then loaded onto the Defender. Once I fire up the Defender to get on the road, my frame of mind in that once instant will switch from chaotic to peaceful, as I power up my iPad and start to play Pete Seger’s “This Land is Your Land” on my iPad. My whole demeanor changes as I get onto the first of the many endless highways and byways once again, although I for one know that they all really are not endless and they do end somewhere..
I took the Defender into Dean’s today to repair the inoperative headlights. As it tuns out, it was not the headlight switch, but the main lighting switch that was causing he trouble. The headlight switch he had ordered arrived, so I took that back as a spare. To save time, he repaired the headlight swath and installed separate relays on both to lessen and reduce the likelihood of a future failure. I had him order a new main lighting switch to take along with me just in case. I will pick them up on my way out of town next week to save precious time.
After finishing up at Dean’s at 2:30, I drove immediately back into DC and picked up a new cane to replace the one that broke this morning. I then walked a block to the Apple store and bought the iPad Pro that had been on my To-do list for more than six months. I stayed with the 10.5-inch device since it will fit into the iPad try I had custom made for my old iPad in front of the console, which give me less than 1/12th of an inch clearance from the manual shift.
When I got home, I spent over an hour setting up my iPad and then trying unsuccessfully to figure out how to sync my desktop photos with it, not an easy chore for reasons too long to explain here.
I then took Donner out and walked four blocks to the ATT store and had the rep transfer the cellular chip from my old iPad to my new, saving me time in having to cancel my old iPad’s account and set up a new one. The rep was very helpful also in showing me how to connect my new iPad to the Smart iPad cover with keyboard. Not intuitively obvious. After that, I walked a block to the Apple store and bought the accessory to transfer photos from my cameras to the iPad, and a second one in addition to a second cable and charger. The iPad falls into the category of something I do not want to lose aces to just because I misplace one of these accessories.
Not to be done in by the fickleness of this new technology, I spent the next two hours at home trying the learn the basics of the new iPad and sync my photos with my PC. After much trial and error, I did it. Now I can check off <Buy new iPad> from my To-do list, which completes all chores except the Desk chores and Packing, a three-day ritual.
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