What's New: New Brain Loaded for my Computer

I told you last week about backing up my computer, right? Well, this saga has more chapters, but I'll try to give only a very condensed report here now.

I did buy a new 1TB SSD hard drive, but the man only showed me how to install it so I had to do that myself at home. Then I ran into the problem of how to partition the new SSD drive. Though only 25% of the size of the old one, it holds 1000GB or 1 TB of space. I was thinking about installing 3 different systems so that I could compare, and switch back and forth.

(Sigh!) That proved to be easier said than done. After fussin' over it all afternoon and evening, I gave up and went to bed. The next day I decided to just install the system I know best, LEAP 15.5. I was thankful when I persuaded it to only claim about 300GB of space, and installation went smoothly.

Then came the matter of copying all the files from my backup drive onto the new internal hard drive. To make sure I was careful to load only one folder full of files at a time and to double-check afterword.

By closer to midnight I was able to go online and check a few emails in the cpanel of the sites where they were located.

I meant to set up my 20+ emails in an email client on Sat. Yardwork and housework got in the way. But I did check the STATS for 7 sites that evening.

I thought I might set up the emails on Sunday, but there was a surprise lunch at church, a visit to Leah, newly widowed, who asked me to pick up some plants from her, and then a few more errands, until my back was urgently complaining. I was home about 4 pm and had a snack at fridge, and a long nap. The email setups didn't happen until yesterday.

I thought today I would be ready for a regular business day... but... well, that's another story altogether.

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Are You New to Online Shopping?

Some are very familiar with online shopping - it's easy as a breeze to them. But some are quite new and puzzled by it all. This caused me to realize that some simple tips might be in order - just in case you need to know these things.

If you are shopping online - paying by cash is almost 100% out of the picture. Sending cash in the mail is not wise; it can be stolen so easily, The police and Canada Post do not recommend it, and I believe it would be the same in the USA or any other country.

If you are the kind of person who does not have or use credit cards, you could perhaps write to the online store's support dept and ask if you could mail them a check.

Or, better still, go to your financial institution and ask if they would arrange to send an E-Transfer for you. But then you will need to provide an email address for the person who is to receive it. Your bank or credit union, whatever your financial institution is called, will send an email for you (or they may urge YOU to do that.)

Then the person you are buying from receives the email they will be asked to click a link and go to the financial institution where you want to deposit the money. The buyer need never know what your account number is. It is better if they don't. It could fall into the wrong hands.

You might also buy a gift card (make sure first that it will be acceptable to the online merchant) and use that as a one-time use credit card for your purchase.

There may be other options too. I have not researched this in any depth, but I had an experience with a customer who wanted to pay me cash for an item on my website. I had to think quickly to decide what other options to recommend to her.

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