The topic of today is all the rain we've been getting here in the Charlotte, NC area these past few days. I don't know what the total rainfall has been, but it has been falling on and off all day and night. Since we just left the desert, the humidity and rain are really getting to us and it looks like it will be getting worse with the tropical storm heading this way. Thank God the motorhome doesn't leak.
Our Tom Tom car charger quit working on the unit a year or so ago and I've been using the phone charger on it. One problem has been that the car chargers have quit working after 6 months of use. When the first one went out I figured it was just old. Then when it happened again I read the instructions and found out the new ones were not as powerful and most likely burnt out trying to supply the GPS.
Gerry has an Amazon.com gift card and we decided to order a Universal USB Car Charger from them. It was compatible with our Tom Tom and the price was right. We tried to use the card to pay for it using Barb & Henry's Amazon account, but it wouldn't accept the gift card numbers. Finally after finagling with it for a while it went on it's merry way and the unit was charged to their credit card account. Hummm, I liked that. They have express shipping for free this month so we took advantage of that also and the charger came in Tuesday.
I plugged the charger into the car cigarette lighter (why do they call it that when we don't smoke cigarettes?) and off it went. It was working and charging up the GPS just like it was supposed to. Ah, the wonders of electronic devices today. Now I feel able to take the next step and maybe order a new phone. Maybe!
We've been on the go since we left Red Bay, AL and decided to take a day off. Just our luck that it's been raining all day and we can't do much anyway, so it worked out fine.
That was our day, how was yours?
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I have been getting more and more spam from bloggers since I let anyone respond to the blog. One way to stop the spam is to cut off anonymous comments. It is very easy and painless to get a Gmail email account and use it to post on blogs. You don't have to actually use the account, but it gives you a portal into my blog.
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I have been getting more and more spam from bloggers since I let anyone respond to the blog. One way to stop the spam is to cut off anonymous comments. It is very easy and painless to get a Gmail email account and use it to post on blogs. You don't have to actually use the account, but it gives you a portal into my blog.
NOTE: Double click photos to enlarge them and links will also be shown in red.
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