I took one of my remaining
vacation days to, among other tasks, write our somewhat traditional Christmas
letter. Before starting to write, I
needed to make one telephone call to a customer to see if I could defer his
software question until I get back to the office on Tuesday. He said that would be okay, but could I send
some documentation for him to look at in the meantime. I can access my work email from home and
found a prior email to a different customer about the same process which I
thought I would forward to the first customer.
The attachment I needed to forward had been deleted because it was found
to contain a virus. I recalled that I
had sent a similar email from my personal Yahoo email account, so I tried to
open Yahoo and couldn’t recall my password.
After clicking the link to reset the password, a code was sent to my cell phone. My cell phone, recharging in another room,
and I are not on the best of terms. I
briefly saw a six-digit number flash on the cell phone screen, walked back to
the computer and entered the six-digit number as I remembered it. That wasn’t the code the computer was looking
for. I returned to the phone and dragged
my finger across the screen and viewed several windows from Facebook “friends”
that I really don’t have the time to keep up with. There’s a little icon at the bottom with a
number 1 which I thought meant that have a new text message and I could get to
it if I touched that, icon. It opened a
window with my daughter’s phone number.
I hit another button and saw my feet through the cell camera lens. I don’t want to take a picture of my
feet. Yahoo had also given me the option
of emailing a link to our AOL account to enable us to change our Yahoo
password, but I can’t remember our AOL password to get to that account either. Maybe I need to make a quick trip to the office…
Back to the Christmas
letter… As the year comes to a close, we
look back to a few highlights: Deanna is
quite busy running her medical practice.
She’s had a couple of medical surprises.
Earlier in the year a mammogram revealed small growth that was removed
and the remaining void zapped (to use one of my medical terms) during the same
procedure. This fall she’s been
experiencing a hearing loss in one ear.
I wonder if there’s a relationship to all the books on tape she’s been
listening to. We still sing with the
Colorado Mormon Chorale and have a Wednesday dinner date prior to rehearsals.
We’re still serving in our church’s young single adult congregation.
We were able to have all of our
children and grandchildren (less 1 at scout camp) together at one time in July
in Liberty, Missouri for granddaughter Samantha Tolman’s baptism. Rachel, Ben and family came from Lincoln,
Nebraska. Allison, Adam and their family
came up from Austin, Texas. Jon and Becky have purchased Becky’s parents’ home
and had moved from Independence to Liberty, patriotic kids that they are. Emily, cell phone in hand, joined us from
Provo.
I am pleased to report that my
spouse, children and grandchildren all seem to be on good terms with their
cellular phones and other modern technological devices. May this season and the coming year be full
of joy, kindness, happiness and smooth sailing and devoid of high-tech
backtalk.
I was going to email this to
Deanna to look over, but can’t email it because the password is expired…doh!
Love
& Merry Christmas
