What a day!  I knew I wasn't going to understand what to do when the firewall alerts! And when the help window opened it went BEHIND the one I was in, the one I couldn't mimimize until I made a decision! 

Part of the problem occurs because my task bar is at the top. I read with one bifocal and it is distracting at the bottom and I hate not being able to read web pages with a lot of scrolling. I couldn't drag the task bar because I didn't know it was 'locked'. I couldn't ask XP help because the offending window was in the way. I did the next best thing, I shut the computer down.

Then when I came back to resolve moving the task bar some how I managed to click open Quick Launch. I did not want that on my desktop hanging down obscuring things. I managed to get rid of it... but, I got rid of my icons in the task bar I use to open browser and email.  Sigh... How nice of XP help window to freeze up then.

Finally I remembered people talking about System Restore in XP. With trepidation I proceeded with it. Oh gosh the last thing it showed was Spybot activity. Did proceeding mean I 'un did' SpyBot attempt to delete the DOS Exploit that it can't delete?  I don't know, I haven't opened the program since.

So while supper is cooking I decide to change the papers in Max's cage and the papers on the floor in front of Pookie's cage.  The dryer 'dinged', off I went. Shoot that was the first ding. Back in and pulled a little tangled bee chime off and took it to the kitchen table. Got the fishing line and oops... I'm changing Max's cage. Finished that.

Then I decided to Charlie hunt to be sure he wasn't caught somewhere. He has found more far away nooks than I ever knew existed in the garage! Then he gets under the hutch that holds collectiable stuff in the living room. The first time we went in there to help him out we had to move the recliner and the end table. He doesn't need help getting out. He goes in and out of there.

He meowed at me at 2 a.m. this morning so I lifted him up on the bed thinking he would lay down. Not so. He knows some how that up is not safe for him now. Daughter reminded me that he can feel being lifted, and if one doesn't think animals can reason they are wrong!

This morning I spent out in the progressively hot day, driving around a parking garage. I couldn't get a doctor's office listed in the TriCare Provider Directory on the phone so I figured since I had to run reports to MOW office I'd drive by. First I drove into the wrong towers, they have free parking. Then I get to the correct place and stand in the elevator and don't know whether to push A,B,SL to get to the ground floor. Wait I was on B level.

Making that worse was learning the doctor is not accepting new patients.

My other search for doctor was done at home on the phone. I have now learned these are the questions I must ask.

1. Are you accepting new patients?

2. Do you accept medicare patients?

3. Do you submit the forms to medicare?

4. How much are office visits?  (that's because some demand you pay and you wait for Medicare to re-imburse you.)

5. Do you have lab and Xray facilities at your clinic or in the same building? Or at least nearby.

Hub busted out laughing when I told him one clinic said they accept new patients but only on a referral from a primary provider. They have no records department so they can't be the provider I'm looking for.  sigh.

And one number I called the doctor had answered the phone. I didn't want to take up his time asking questions of this nature. Then I hung up thinking "do you want a provider that has to answer the incoming calls?"  Can't he afford enough staff?  I'll most likely go with a doctor that doesn't find it beneath himself to answer phones. Plus the parking there is free because that is the first place I stopped today.