TV and hard drive

We received the tv wall mount that I ordered, on Friday. DH got the tv up above the fireplace. Not the easiest thing to install, but he got it. Ok, then on to me to figure out if there was any possible way to get the live tv he watches (namely FoxNews) streaming, without having to purchase a $40 a month subscription service. I watched a video on how to download Xfinity Stream (using my mom's account log in) and I got it loaded on (back door method) but on that it would not let me watch live tv (like we can on our computers by logging into same thing). Shoot. Then as I was scrolling back I saw there is a standalone app for FoxNews, that you access by entering your subscription log in to Xfinity. That worked! Wooo! We'll give this a try for awhile and see if it's workable with how DH likes to watch tv. About the only other thing he watches is Discovery Channel and it appears there is an app for that, too, so we should be able to watch that the same way.

DH's external hard drive stopped working. Because of his "weirdness" (he always has to do things so backwards) of not wanting to save anything on his actual computer's harddrive,  he puts it all on his external drive....well, then he has no back up! Of course it finally died. I took it into a computer repair place in the city today. He took the hard drive out of the casing and tried to plug in directly but no luck. He recommended a company out of California that specializes in data recovery, but said they are like $700 on up. He also said there is a guy, (about another 45 minutes farther than the city) who does data recovery and would probably be half that cost. He said he didn't know anything about him, other  than he stopped in and left his info for data recovery. It seems there might be a chance a company that specializes in data recovery could get the files off of it. I guess they take it apart and repair and recover. The "local-ish" guy said his pricing starts at $399 - if you don't need an emergency rush job. I said no, no rush. Just hoping to save what we can off of it. Expensive lesson will be learned. Or maybe not, maybe nothing will be recoverable and it won't cost that.

It was a nice visit with DD. I found a summer dress to wear to her wedding. At Target, on sale for $25. A summery, flowery dress. While in the city I picked up my Walmart food order. That was pretty nifty. Check in with an app, they bring out the groceries and load in the car. We even got a free donut, each. I guess they had leftovers from the prior day, National Donut Day. But they tasted fresh, almost like a Krispy Kreme glazed donut. I will be using this service again. What a time saver. I did opt for "substitutions" and one was ok, one not so great. They didn't have the smaller size of OJ, so substituted the big jug at same price. They didn't have the bread, so substituted another brand of "honey wheat" bread, which isn't very similar, but I guess will do.

DH and I aren't getting along very well right now. He's become extremely critical and rude. Hopefully, it passes soon. I'm tired enough as it is, without dealing with that on my plate, too.