It's Complicated

We got our new landline installed this past week, and so Bruce had to make a trip out into the unpleasant heat wave for an actual phone.  We haven't looked at those things in years, and had no idea what was what.  He got a new fangled thing with so many complex features that I can't even begin to wrap my head around it.  It had a base unit and 4 wireless handsets.  It has an answering machine feature built in, blue tooth technology, and the capability to be hooked up to 2 cell numbers.  Whoa...ok.  I have given up on the funky stuff.  I asked that my cell NOT be connected to it because it just confuses me.  Bruce had his cell hooked up with the system for a while. but ended up disconnecting it because voice mails were appearing and we haven't figured out how to retrieve them.  Voice mails are different from answering machine messages....???  I don't know, and have decided that I don't want to learn.  I can answer, hang up and retrieve answering machine messages and that is more than enough for me.  Nobody has even called us on that number yet anyway.  We have had a couple of telemarketers (wasn't that why we got rid of the landline the first time around?), but I guess that since its free with our new cable package, we might as well have it.  It might come in handy one day.

It continues to be hotter than a thousand hells outside.  We have managed to hibernate for most of the weekend.  There were errands yesterday, oil changes for cars, and a trip to the grocery store that was becoming mandatory.  Seriously, the cupboards were getting bare.  Beyond that, we have been successful with the hibernation plan.  I have enough books waiting on my iPad/Kindle to keep me busy in the air conditioning for quite a while anyway.  I won't get bored.  I am, however, a bit sad to see this lazy weekend draw to a close.  At least the weather looks like it cools off a bit next week though, so maybe hope is on the horizon. 

I am continuing with my ban on posting anything political on Facebook.  Conservatives are posting nasty things about liberals.  Liberals are posting equally unpleasant things about conservatives.  Obamacare is bad.....Jesus is a socialist who would approve of Obamacare....everybody is screaming emphatically that, "This is how it is!  I am right and you are wrong!"  I have my views, and I stand by them firmly....but this bashing and wailing and gnashing of teeth just makes my head hurt.  I admit I enjoy a bit of liberal humor, but I am refusing to spread it.  I don't see the point of it, not on there, anyway.  I think I am going with the idea of living it, not talking it.  If that makes any sense to anybody else.....

I hope everybody has a great week.  I hope that with the cooler weather, maybe I will feel more like myself again.  The heat makes me crabby, and tired.