Knitting and struggling

 Yesterday's knitting group was small and full of talent. See Sandy modeling her latest, which I last saw on the needles.

And Meg's sweater, nearly done, pockets to be stitched in place.

I'd cast on, not enough to show you yet. Chat ranged over finishing projects before beginning new ones, disposing of items for loved people, weather, the transfer of a popular library maintenance man, the winter habits of pets, including Myrtle the turtle, installation of new smart meters, and quite a bit of technical discussion about the pocket placement of the almost completed sweater. 

Then I got a text from Handsome Son, help required with payment shifting. Bonnie asked if I had any tips to pass on about planning. The usual one, assume things will not be simple and will take much longer than anticipated. 

Handsome Son had hoped to polish off the three payment setups quickly once he got the info forwarded by me. I had to do the initial work because of being the owner.  The HOA one went quickly, but after that the other two not so much.

Anyway, we reckoned without his printer suddenly not working, so one form needed in hard copy, couldn't happen. And another, web based destination kept giving error messages saying that account # was already in use. Well, yeah, that was the point, to get in! 

In the end he came over after I got home from knitting, and my printer worked but needs ink. Then it would not work with his laptop. I ended up firing up my laptop I never use, finding the info in there, took a while, and ended up printing from there. and he got a very faint version to fill out. He did it anyway, both of us feeling the hell with them, let them struggle, too!

The last one, a website, was another issue, but finally let me in, not on my tablet, hinky, but on my phone. I was just at the point of getting in, new password, right screen to check, when my phone dropped the WiFi signal, a common problem with this phone.

Started all over again, with the tablet, this time got in, got to right screen, had Handsome Son do the rest. 

After all this, he went out to bring us pizza,sausage and pepperoni,  and ginger beer, which we richly deserved.  It evidently takes two to get through lousy website design. Also printers can be counted in not to work at will.

On the good household news side, both he and I got the new smart utility meters  installed yesterday with no, not a typo, trouble!  

And I received the township safety code certificate, which was supposed to be in the mail weeks ago, for the condo, attesting to safe practices, smoke alarm, co alarm, chimney, all that, signed it and sent it with the other items.

So some things do work.  But all this makes me wonder if a cabin in the woods would be desirable.

And today's poem is so good, in view of recent discussions on other blogs

Happy day, everyone! We got this, despite the times when we feel this has got us!