A money spending day

No matter how hard I try to keep my mom's emails from those pesky spam emails, some slip through. Though every time I log in (especially in the morning, when I know she hasn't been on her computer since the day before) there is very few. I'm sure she gets a few during the day. But, I'm also pretty sure she actually opens her Spam folder! She has kind of said that a couple of times and I keep saying do not even open the folder! But, of course, she can't remember, so............

Apparently she got an email Friday that said we have confirmed your registration into Adult Dating site. Click here to deactivate. So, of course she did. Yesterday morning there were 30 "mailer-daemon deliverable emails". Just from that one email she replied to......Sigh.........

The favor DH was asked to do was to take some video with his drone and make into a little video. Nothing too hard....except now he doesn't have a computer to put the videos together on. This morning he decided to go over and do the video with the drone. I went with him and then he says do you want to go buy the computer now? ok. LOL.

We got one at Staples. An HP. Just a basic computer tower. He doesn't do gaming and advanced stuff. It was on sale for $369. It has 8mb RAM and the one I was looking at Best Buy was only 4mb RAM for the same price. Plus, Best Buy has always annoyed me, with all their extra sales pitches. Well, Staples is the same way. No, I do not want this protection or that. No, I do not want your extended warranty. Just sell me the dang computer.

Then we stopped at the Verizon store. Quite a long time ago DH dropped his phone and the screen cracked. Well, someone said it's probably just the screen protector that got cracked, not the screen itself. Sure enough, it was just the protector. And since neither of us can install one of those without messing it up, I just had the guy at the store put a new one on it. It's like he's got a new phone now, LOL.

Then we went to a farm/feed supply store and bought some weed killer. Two different kinds DH likes and we went for the bigger jugs, so that was $125 for both, but should last at least couple of years.

I spent at least a couple hours yesterday after we got home setting up his computer. Setting up his favorites in Firefox and entering all his logins and passwords. To do his drove videos he had used Windows Movie Maker that was on his old computer. Well, of course, now Windows doesn't offer that anymore. He doesn't want (nor do I need to deal with) to try to learn a whole new program. It was amazing that he figured that one out! I found where I could download it online. They had 2 versions offered, 2016 and a new 2019 version. I figured  the one he had before was 2016, but the download failed. So, I did the 2019 version, but it looked nothing like what he had used. I tried to download the older version on my pc and it worked and was the same as he had used. So, I deleted the downloaded version on his new pc and tried to download the older version again. It worked. WHEW! But then when he went and tried to use it, it said there would be a watermark on the videos, unless he paid for the program (this version was supposedly free per the website). So, I paid the $29 for the program. That's worth it to not have to deal with him having to learn something new, to me. He owns the program now, it's a one time purchase.

And he just got up this morning. Nice that he can sit down at a computer again, like he usually does with his breakfast. I'm on my computer, doing my normal daily checks. Look at my bank account and credit card. WTH?! The Staples purchase is showing 3 TIMES! I know they were having trouble with their card machines. We had to to a different one. So, now I have to call them and figure this out.