As I think I mentioned, I really couldn't get motivated last week, so I'm working on catching up now.
Working my way through Vik's iCloud, that was the hardest part of the estate, on the good side, Apple is very, very serious about your security, on the bad part, they really don't offer easy instructions on how to deal with a deceased person's account. That and once you get the court order, the only way you can gain access to the account, legal has to review the court order, then there are people that have to work on setting up the account access, however once they did that, they failed to give me instructions on how to access it, just letting me know that it was mine now and giving me a verification link. Oh, and that's just to the account, they don't provide links or information on how to access the individual services. There also doesn't seem to be a way to download the entire cloud (that really wouldn't work well), or whole folders, you just have to work with each file, which since there's around 5G of files, will take a while.
I emailed the cremation company I used about prepaying for my own services as well as the balance I have over there. Prolly October I'll find a lawyer to prepare a will, the delay there, is I want to talk to my eldest cousin about being plan B on my will, as there's only a 9 month age difference between me and my sister, so if'n everything goes right, I'll simply talk to them while I'm down in Huntsville for my Grandmother's birthday (105, I swear that woman will outlive us all, she'll prolly be here to witness the heat death of the universe). Will need to find a lawyer for the will, recommendations in the STL area welcome.
Need to contact the heating company as an inspection for the system they put in was never scheduled, that should be easy enough.
Caught up with mom and sister, though I still need to RSVP for the party.
Yesterday I took care of grocery shopping and finances, the former in St Chas as I hopped over there for breakfast at Waffle House. I'd grabbed take out there earlier in the week and forgot how good it is, so that might become a regular thing, dunno yet. Also replaced the blade on the mower, fueled up the skid steer ($40 for a 5 gallon can and 5 gallons of gas, ouch). Dug up some of the pavers, trimmed the front lawn (couldn't do that last week as I'd run out of string, fixed that Monday, but didn't get to doing it).
Today was laundry as well as the stuff I've mentioned that I've done or will do shortly. Still gotta knock out a little cooking, I need a batch of rice, and gotta set up a cold brew.
Sorting through a bit of mail right now, and will take a bit of a break before returning to the iCloud.
Also in October might be a yard sale/estate sale, one big three day blow out sale, although I'll be selling larger items on Marketplace and Craigslist before then. Here too if'n anyone wants to see what I have, three Ikea bookcases, an HON desk, some drills just to start. Oh, if'n you're in the STL area with a tiny library, we'll happily supply books for it, just give us a shout, free delivery in some areas even.
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