Welcome to this week's Sunday/Monday Post. I am way behind where I wanted to be today (Saturday), so let's get to it. I'll be linking up to:
Sunday Post
Sunday Salon
Stacking the Shelves
Mailbox Monday
Technology is not being my friend right now. My TV is not connecting to my wifi. Everything else is connecting to the internet. I can wire it in, but last time this happened, my TV broke and I had to get it fixed. I'm worried that's about to happen again. The fix wasn't cheap, but was covered by my warrantee, which has now expired.
Meanwhile, I got a new laptop a couple of weeks ago. I'm just now trying to move stuff into it. Yesterday, it was music and pictures. Today, I woke up to a notification from Microsoft that I was over my limits. Turned out, my photos were automatically put into OneDrive for me. Deleted them from my new laptop, and I'm now no longer over my limit. So, now, I need to figure out how to store stuff on my hard drive. You know, what I actually want to do. It looks like my documents will all be put to the cloud as well. Keep in mind that I had to get a new laptop because I was out of storage on my hard drive there, so if all that stuff were in the cloud, I wouldn't have room for it without paying a monthly fee. But if I were willing to do that, then I wouldn't need a new laptop. (Yes, there were some other reasons for it, but that was the big one.)
I always hate getting a new laptop, and stuff like this is why.
What else have I been up to this week? I went over to some friends' to watch Wednesday's USA World Cup game. I'm not a big sports person, but it was nice to get to spend some time with them, and I did enjoy the game
Other than that, it's been work. I had Friday off, so I went over to paddle about noon. It was later than I had planned, but the wind wasn't too bad yet, and I enjoyed it.
Joke of the Week:
This Past Week on the Blog:
This Coming Week on the Blog:
Book Haul:
I've got five new books to talk about this week.
Let's start with Serving up the Truth by Debra Klein. I won it from a blog giveaway. I'm planning to get to it in August. Sounds like it's something I will enjoy.
My Kindle buying spree last week was because I had a bunch of Kindle points expiring at the end of June. I've let some expire this year, but I was close enough to a reward and this was a huge chunk, so I didn't want to let that happen again. But that also meant I had to use them this week. Oh darn, right? I used them to get Homicide on the Range, the newest Hometown Mystery from Rosalie Spielman. This is book six. I still need to get book five read, but I'm hoping to do that soon.
Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn went on sale for Kindle this week. (And it still is as of my typing this Saturday at noon.) I wasn't the biggest fan of the first in the series, but I've been curious about the sequel, so I decided to snag it.
The last two books are eARCs. I signed up for a blog tour for A Murderer's Guide to Mardi Gras by Ellen Byron. The book comes out in August, so I won't be reading it for another couple of weeks, but I've got the ARC for when I'm ready.
Strong Medicine by Steve Hockensmith comes out much sooner. Like July 14th. This is the latest in his Holmes on the Range series, which features cowboy brothers solving mysteries in the old west using skills they gleaned from the Sherlock Holmes stories.
What I'm Currently Reading:
I'm sure it's no surprise that I'm currently reading Strong Medicine by Steve Hockensmith. I'm enjoying it so far, but I need to get more read. With the morning I had, I haven't gotten as much read as I had hoped Saturday. I'm still hoping to finish it off on Sunday.
Which means Monday, I'll be working on All Aboard for Murder by Ellen Byron. Yep, she has books coming out pretty close together again. I'm part of a blog tour for it on July 20th, so I need to get it read and the review written. I always enjoy her books, so I'm looking forward to diving in.
Have a great week!
Lucky you could paddle in this heat. I spend time watching soccer and doing indoor chores. I stay away from the weather outside, tho it's cooler this week with some welcome rain.
ReplyDeleteHappy Sunday!
ReplyDeleteGetting a new computer, phone, etc. can feel like moving into a new house. I hope you get everything squared away soon. Have a great week! :)
ReplyDeleteOur internet kept disconnecting from our tv last night. We blamed it on our internet. Hope it's not the tv!
ReplyDeleteI hate having to pay for additional cloud storage but because I work on my iPad I don’t have much of an alternative. I do put all my photos on an external hard drive though so I can delete them off the cloud regularly and can stick with the cheapest cloud packages.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your week, happy reading!
yes, be sure to turn off automatic sync to the cloud drive. And just save there what you really really want to be saved in case your computer dies unexpectedly.
ReplyDeleteHere is my Sunday post, a bit special: https://wordsandpeace.com/2026/07/05/parisinjuly2026-and-sunday-post-162-my-current-french-books/
I'm sorry you're having so much trouble with technology right now. Personally, I hate the whole push to store everything in the cloud, too. I hope you are able to figure out how to store your photos and other data on your laptop. We have so much music and so many photos that we set up a home NAS with lots of storage. That way, either of us can access it from our laptops. Maybe you could do something like that? Or on a smaller scale, you could just set up an external hard drive that you hook up to your laptop. Anyway, good luck with all of it!
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