Barb went to a craft show and found a whole bunch of
coloured visors that she bought to go with her outfits. She now has colour coordinated blouses,
skirts, shoes, watch bands and visors for pickleball. After she bought the visors, she realized she
could have just gone out and bought the material and made the visors
herself. The next day she bought a whole
box of fabric really cheap at Joanne's Fabric to make visors of all kinds of
colours.
Friday, 17 May 2019
Lowquat
My other neighbour was telling us about the tree at the side
of our house. He said it produces really
sweet fruit. It is a strange type of
fruit I never seen before. He said he
had brought all the stuff needed to make jam from the fruit. I said he could have as much fruit as he
wanted. I plucked some of the fruit and
tried it and gave some to Barb. It was
sort of good but Barb didn't like it.
Later Barb was showing the tree to her pickleball friend and her friend
told her it was a Lowquat tree. She said
her Chinese roommates would love to have some of the fruit and they would cook
it up. I never even knew it was a fruit
tree and now two people have said they would like some of the fruit from our
tree.
Landscapers
When I phoned our neighbours to thank them for closing our
door when I was out, I got a kick out of the fact that she said the landscapers
had noticed the door was open and told them about it. She calls the people who cut the lawn
landscapers. We call them lawnmowers.
New Bat
I knew my bat had a crack in it but today the umpires were
checking the bats before the game and the umpire said I couldn't play with my
bat because it was cracked. The star
hitter on our team said he had a bat at home that he never used and would bring
it to the next game for me to use. So I
used his bat for a few games and hit really well. So I asked him if I could buy it for
$100. It seemed like a good deal for
both of us.
Bank Card
Barb's Bank of America debit card was cancelled and she was
checking the mail box every day for the new one but it never came. I said maybe she threw it out with the junk
mail sort of like the way she missed her Canadian bank card this past summer. She went to the bank and cancelled the bank
card that never came and and she got a temporary card that just says customer
on it and asked them to send a new card to her.
Jim
My friend on my softball team who is a pickleball player
asked me if Barb played mixed in the Villages Tournament. I said yes and he asked who she played
with. I thought about it and I really
didn't know because when Barb is talking about all of her pickleball friends
that I don't know, their names go in one ear and out the other. But I randomly said Jim. When I came home I told Barb about it and it
turns out I was right she did play with a guy called Jim.
The Villages Tournament
Barb and her male partner won their pool in the round
robin. There were three pools and six
teams made the playoffs. Two teams got a
bye in the first round and four teams played in a quarterfinal. Barb and her partner played and lost in the
first round to the eventual winners of the tournament. So they didn't get a
medal. If the draw had been different,
they might have got a silver medal. So
Barb felt cheated.
Woodstock
We have a radio in our house with speakers in the ceiling of
many of the rooms. Unfortunately the
reception is bad and we can only receive a few stations. The station we listen to seems to play the
same few songs over and over and even when the songs are different they seem
the same to me. I hate all the songs and
Barb hates a few of them. So I set up
Barb's computer to play the radio station in Woodstock which is the same radio station we
listen to in New Hamburg.
Play
My Ottawa
radio station was never able to play on my computer and I thought it had
something to do with accepting cookies.
Then I found out I just had to click the play button.
Last Place
My recreational league softball team had a chance to come
first in the regular season but my other team in the Restricted Bat League team
ended in last place out of ten teams.
Relax
My softball team had a chance to come in first place. On the last game of the season, we were
playing against a team and if we won we would come in first and if they won
they would come in first. The coach kept
yelling at us to relax when we were up to bat and obviously it didn't work
because we lost the game and ended in third place out of 24 teams which I
thought was still pretty good.
Toilets
We have newfangled toilets that are dual flush. Many times they don't flush properly and run
on and on. Barb and I have a
disagreement about what to do about it.
Barb thinks you should hold the toilet handle down for a few extra
seconds to get the toilet to do a long flush and then she thinks it won't run
on. I think you should just push the
handle down quickly and let it go, so there will only be a short flush and it
won't run on. It turns out that really
neither of us are right and sometimes it runs on and sometimes it doesn't run
on with both techniques. It is an illusion that we think our method works and
the other method doesn't.
Note
Our neighbour left a note under the wiper of my car to tell
me that her and her husband had to come over and shut our door when Barb was at
pickleball and I was at softball. Our
door is a little difficult to close and I have to be careful when I leave the
house. Barb told me there is a technique
to closing the door. After you close the
door normally, you have to give it an extra little push. I had left the radio on in the house when I
left for softball and our neighbours heard it and thought there might be someone
in the house that had fallen and was in trouble. So they went in the house to make sure
everything was okay. Barb was very
embarrassed that our neighbours had gone in our house. Barb said she would teach me how to close the
door.
Team Photo
The coach of my team got a team photo taken and today he
gave them out to the team. I brought the
photo home and Barb was shocked. She
said I must learn to pull in my stomach because it looked like I had a big
belly. She couldn't believe it because I
was the thinnest I have been in years.
Breathing
While floating in the pool with my noodle, I found out if I
took a deep breath my neck and shoulders came up out of the water and when I
exhaled they went back down and only my head was out of the water.
My Beautiful Schedule
Barb came home from pickleball complaining about my schedule
that was used today in her games. I
couldn't believe my beautiful schedule wasn't working as planned. So we sat
down and analyzed the whole day and found the problem. Two players had switched positions in the
first round and screwed everything up.
Pickleball Instructor
One of the pickleball instructors at the Villages is always
criticizing Barb for the way she bends over to hit the pickleball at the
net. Today she wanted Barb to show her
students the Barbie Butt.
Barb's Computer Again
When I set the Linux computer up for Barb, I set up a user
named Barb with her usual password. Now
that I am using the Linux computer, I am still using the user name Barb and
Barb's password to logon. Sometimes I
even get confused and try to logon to my computer with Barb's user name and
password.
Mulligan
Even though Truman's birthday card went to the wrong
address, Daphne and Truman finally got it and Daphne told me they really liked
the golfer on the card and the mention of taking a Mulligan for his birthday. A mulligan is when you make a bad hit of the golf
ball and get to try again. It is also
the name of Daphne and Truman's dog.
Barb's Computer
I have been very disappointed that I don't have a Linux
computer any more. So every so often, I
turn on Barb's computer to see if it works.
I decided I should get her photos and data off her computer. So I made a Linux boot USB drive and went
into her BIOS to reset her boot order to look for the USB first when booting
up. I restarted the computer and was
surprised when Barb's Windows system worked again. So now Barb can have her computer back and I
can have my Linux computer.
Making Fun of Laura
I am always making fun of Laura when she tells me she has
dropped her phone in the toilet. Today she
would have had the last laugh when I dropped my phone in the toilet.
Fitbit
Barb is obsessed with her Fitbit. Every morning, she checks how long she has
slept and how much REM sleep and Deep sleep she got. Last night, her Fitbit said she only got 4
hours sleep. When she came home from
pickleball in the afternoon and after she took a shower, she got into bed and
had a good long nap. She was furious at
herself when she woke up and found out she hadn't put on her Fitbit after her
shower. So she hadn't captured the data
on how much sleep she got in her nap and how much REM and Deep sleep she got.
Tumble
I hit the ball in slow-pitch today in the outfield gap and
thought it was going to roll to the fence and I had a chance to get a
homerun. I was running around first base
and one of the players on our bench yelled "touch all the
bases". I was running hard to
second base and when I looked up the ball was coming in from the outfield. I guess the ball didn't get past the
outfielder and I was going to be thrown out at second base. Also the player who batted ahead of me was
standing on second base. So I tried to
stop running and go back to first base.
I couldn't stop my momentum and fell down and when I got up the second
baseman had the ball and tagged me out.
New Mahjong
Barb was disappointed she had lost all of her games when her
computer broke down. So while she was
away I installed a number of games that come with Linux on the computer she is
now using. I tried playing Mahjong on
the Linux computer but I don't know how to play Mahjong. It didn't quite look like the version of Mahjong
Barb used to play. So I just used the hints feature. I still lost.
When Barb came home from the tournament, I showed her the new
Mahjong. At first she didn't like it
because the only choice you have is tiles with Chinese characters. The first time she played it we played together
and we won. So Barb warmed up to
it. I think the Mahjong on the Linux
computer is the true way to play Mahjong and her game on her old computer is
some American adaptation.
Pop
I send the girls articles that I find in my email I think
they might find useful. Today I sent
them an article about how to pop a pimple.
Sarah said Gross I'm Not Opening THAT!
Snorer
Barb stayed with three other ladies in the Holiday Inn
during the out of town tournament and one of the ladies was a snorer even
though she wore a CPAP. Barb said she
was as loud as a Mac Truck . The next
morning she woke up and told the other ladies she had a great sleep. One of the ladies said she wanted to hug the
snorer during the night and then grabbed herself around the neck as if she
would have strangled the snorer.
Photo Op
Barb's friend from Ottawa
is a professional photographer and takes pictures at all the pickleball
tournaments he goes to. He was in Naples when Barb was
there and saw Barb on the court. He
decided to take a picture of Barb. He
took just one picture but that was enough because it was perfect action shot of
Barb. He said he always can count on
Barb for a perfect picture.
Porridge
Barb was staying at the Holiday Inn during one of her out of
town tournaments. They had free continental
breakfasts but they were really terrible.
Barb has porridge for breakfast at home sometimes. So she decided to have porridge at the Holiday
Inn. The problem was she couldn't seem
to figure out how to cook it properly.
So she ended up eating uncooked porridge and it later expanded in her
stomach and made her feel kind of sick.
Bank Card
Barb got an email today saying her Bank of America debit
card had been compromised and the bank had cancelled it. The email said they would email her a new
card and it should be delivered in 3-5 business days. Barb seems to have the worst luck with bank
cards.
Barb's Computer
I listen to my Ottawa
radio station on Barb's computer with the little speakers we have for her
computer. Today I was trying to turn on
Barb's computer and it wouldn't turn on.
I tried and Barb tried and it just didn't work. So I told Barb I would try to fix it but in
the meantime she could use my Linux computer.
I was upset that I was so quick to wipe the Windows system off the
computer because Barb had never used Linux and thought it was some difficult
system. She was happily surprised it was
so easy to use. The Ubuntu operating
system looks a lot like an older version of a Apple Macintosh computer.
Strike Out
Today I struck out in my slow-pitch game and I was very
embarrassed because no one ever strikes out in slow-pitch. The guys on the team laughed when I came back
to the bench and said at least I didn't hit into a double play.
Linux Computer
I wanted to bring Sarah's old laptop to Florida so I could have a Linux computer but
I decided it would be too many computers with Barb's computer, my Windows
computer and my Work computer. So I was
happy when Barb's friend asked if we would like her old laptop now that her
mother had bought her a new computer.
Barb told her friend that we would like it because Ivan collects old
computers. So Barb brought home the
laptop from pickleball and I was impressed that the old computer was better than
my computer. I wiped the drive of her
friend's stuff and installed Linux.
Every time I started up the computer, I got a message saying System
Error. The computer seemed to work okay
but I was worried about the System Error.
So I installed Linux again. Then
I tried a different distribution of Linux but that distribution didn't
recognize the wireless chip and I didn't want to fuss with installing the
driver for it. So I decided I could live
with the message about the System Error.
Now I have the Linux computer in my office and my Windows computer in
the living room where I can work on it while Barb watches television in the
evenings.
Headphones
I use my headphones all the time. Today I accidently tried to put the plug end
of my headphones in my ear.
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