Beneath the Wraps

           I’ve written at least two posts regarding Alexa echo.   One mentions how we’ve separated the two by referring to them as Emily and Stacy ( here ) and the  first post about the two colored rings that appear when voice activated. But there is a also a third color which appears by itself on occasion.   That circle is yellow in color and will provide notifications at random.   The last six were in reference to the weather as a storm is in the midst and has been for the last couple of weeks – though we haven’t seen the storm.        Currently it is pouring – HARD - hard like the first rain we had encountered at Newport April 2015 ( here ).  I tried taking Bonnie for a walk.  I was okay with the rain falling down, but she was not.  Needless to say our walk was the shortest walk yet – perhaps the length of ten houses and back. I like the sound of rain.  I like the green grass.  I don’t s...

  Jenna's rough drawing of what Echo and "Attitude" might appear as icons I think I have created a couple of posts in which I refer to “ Alexa ” .   We have two, an echo and one built into the sound system for the TV.   Jenna had won the echo two and a half years ago when we had gone to Salem for an open house for the online school that Roland works for.   We kept it over the fireplace for over a year before Roland purchased a new sound system for the television.   He had a choice of making it “ Okay Google ” or “ Alexa ”.   I told him to go with “ Okay Google ” so the two wouldn’t both activate at the same time but he chose not to listen to me and go with Alexa and moved the Echo into Jenna’s room.   But her room is too close and both would activate – at least simultaneously. We now have the Echo in our room and have an alarm set to go off at 5:15 each weekday morning. Our room is located right next door to Jenna’s and so often both will act...

Is it possible that the elements could be so cold that the signal for internet is lost?   The outside has gotten below freezing between 1:00 and 5:00.   Jenna, who has gotten up as early as three (strange child) was trying to sign up on the internet yesterday and was frustrated with it not coming up. If she couldn’t get on her devise (which she would seriously give up for non-electronic entertainment) I wasn’t even going to bother trying mine.   Mine has been having problems ever since Roland received a new updated computer from his work.   It must be sucking up more signal or something.   That isn’t fair. As Roland was toying with Jenna’s device, I got up and checked the status on the box.   One light was solid green, one light was blinking green.   One light was blinking orange.   The other two were out.   I mentioned that it was probably the internet – and the last time we had encountered that problem it was not so much a household t...