Answer

 

Today I was talking to my Nigerian friend with my phone in my pocket and I asked him "How are you?" and my phone answered me.

Moistly

 

We all got a great kick out of the music video of Trudeau Talking Moistly. Today I was sitting in my chair in the sun room at just the right angle for Barb to see me yawn moistly.

Laura's Birthday Party

 

Barb went to Laura's birthday party on Zoom and it was the first time we had used Zoom. So she couldn't get the sound at first. She was screaming at me to come and fix it for her. What she didn't know was that everyone on the Zoom gathering could hear her yelling even though she couldn't hear them. The instructor was trying to give instructions to the group but Barb's yelling kept drowning her out. It was like a classic scene from the movie Mother and after the meeting the Zoom instructor told Laura it was okay because it was just like when her mother tries to use Zoom.

Episode 3

 

Barb was trying to watch episode 4 of Better Call Saul's current season but she couldn't see that the episodes were listed in the wrong order on Kodi and kept getting episode 3 over and over again.

First Date

 

Barb was messaging her friend Ellen who was telling her about having a special dinner to celebrate their first date and Barb was amazed when I remembered that our first date was on June 16th, 1980. Of course, she couldn't remember when our first date was. So she had no way to verify it.

Audio Book

 

Tonight I was listening to my audio book in bed before I fell asleep. When I turned off my book and put the phone away, I accidently started my radio station. It used 60% of the battery playing all night. I found out my radio station was on all night when I woke up in the morning and unplugged my headphones and the radio was playing.

Recharge

 

The battery pack only works for one recharge of my phone. So when I got home from my walk, I searched around in my electronics box for the cable to recharge the battery pack. Of course, like all cables, it is different from all the others. Anyway while I was searching for the cable to recharge the battery pack, I found the telephone cable that I thought I had left in Florida.

Charger

 

I listen to audio books on my phone when I got for my afternoon walk. However, often my phone battery is dead and Barb gets so mad at me because I don't just charge it every night like her. So today I was complaining about my phone being dead and Barb reminded me of the battery pack that Laura had given me for my birthday last year. So I got it out and tried it. At first, it just drained the phone even more. Then it started charging the phone and I could go for my walk a happy man.

Socks

 

Barb didn't believe me when I told her that she had mixed up my socks after washing them and putting them in by sock drawer. I had to get them out of the sock drawer and show her that they didn't match.

Milk Bag

 

Barb buys me these really good potato chips from Costco that come in super sized bags. I usually have a bowl of chips and a glass of water after Barb goes to bed and I am finished washing the dishes. Tonight I ripped open a new bag and accidently ripped the bag all the way down the side. There were chips all over the counter. We save milk bags for garbage because you don't get plastic bags from stores anymore. So I picked up all the chips and then tried to fix the chip bag problem by putting the chip bag inside a milk bag. In the morning, Barb found chips under the toaster and thought I was crazy to have put the bag of chips in a milk bag.

Humidity

 

Barb set my humidity on my CPAP higher because I was having a dry mouth during the night. Then the next day she got a message on her phone from the CPAP sales office about the high humidity setting because they monitor my CPAP over wifi.

Dinner

 

We usually have a late dinner and I have to rush from the dinner table to my office to video chat with my friend Stan on Tuesday nights at 8:30. Barb likes to make these packaged salads to eat with dinner. Tonight after my video chat with Stan, Barb came into my study to talk to me but before she could say anything she told me that I had lettuce stuck in my front teeth.

Wash

 

Barb started watching this television show called Ozark. She told me that lead character in the show was a good guy but he had to wash money for a drug dealer. I told her it was launder.

Sleep

 Barb is very competitive with her Fitbit. She no longer competes with Laura in steps because Laura gets so many steps for work that it is unfair. So she competes with Haliegh and she sometimes wins, if she plays enough pickleball. But now with COVID the only thing she can compete in is sleep with me. Barb's sleep is terrible but today she was so happy she got a score of 83 last night and I got only 81

Sledge

 

Sarah told us today that she didn't graduate with a degree in environmental engineering to be out in the field making fences with a sledge.

Bingo

 

There wasn't much to do when we got back to Canada because all the recreation was closed because of COVID. So Barb and I would take afternoon walks. One day we met one of Barb's friends from darts driving by and he stopped to welcome us back. Barb started talking about COVID with him and he said that he stopped watching the numbers on the television because it was just like Bingo.

Buffoon

 

Barb hates Trump more than anything. She calls him a buffoon. One day she was talking about how he looks just like a buffoon, a big monkey. I said, "That's a baboon".

Cable

 

We found out our insurance was going to uphold our agreement even during COVID. So we were planning to stay in Florida as long as we had health insurance. But things started to get creepy and one night Barb, all of a sudden, decided we would just pack up and go back to Canada. So that night we packed everything and summer-ized the house. Then the next morning, we left at 3 am.

When we got home, it was my job to set up the landline phone. I found that I forgot the cable to connect the wifi to the phone. I was so upset because my only job was to pack the electronics. Barb packed everything else. We searched the house looking for another cable. Eventually, I found one attached to an old fax machine that I had inherited from an old consultant friend in the 1990s. So I was able to set up the phone and everything was cool.

COVID

 The COVID-19 pandemic was just starting to be a problem and we were in Florida. Barb wanted to write an email to her friends the next day to ask them what she should do about it. She woke up in the middle of the night and in the dark, she jotted her thoughts on a little piece of paper on her night table. Then in the morning, she couldn't read her writing.

Green

 

The big tree in the front yard goes to seed every Spring and sheds all of this green pollen that falls and covers our cars. We hate it because we don't like to have to get a carwash all the time. So often Barb and I drive to our sports with our cars covered in green pollen. Barb's friend Annie at pickleball told Barb today "your car is covered with green". As if Barb was blind or something.

GMT

 

So we are not confused about our meeting time, my Nigeria fellow and I meet at 1700 Greenwich Mean Time. However, today I found out the GMT does not change for Daylight Savings Time and I was up one hour too early for our mentoring meeting.

Tap

 Barb somehow discovered that she had never turned on the cold water tap for the washing machine and it only was using hot water. That was why she always had to take cold showers when she was doing laundry.

Dresses

 

Barb takes pride in wearing matching tops and skirts to pickleball. She even tries to match her shoes and her watch band. There was a guy sitting on the bench beside the court who mentioned how well Barb dressed to another man. The other man asked how was her third shot coming. The third shot is the most important shot in pickleball and the one Barb always had trouble and has been working so hard to perfect. The man replied, "Like I said, she dresses well."

Looking at the Flowers

 

I was walking down the path in front of the house holding my computer after working on the side yard patio for the afternoon. I was looking at the flowers in our garden and stepped on the brick sticking up on the path that I had tripped on a couple of weeks ago. Because I stepped on the brick, I didn't fall this time but I could have.

Everglades

 

They are building a whole new section of The Villages in the south of town. They are building a softball complex. It would be about an hour drive for me to get there. The league executive were doing a survey to see whether the current players were willing to play there part of next season. I was going to say that I would play there if I had to but Barb told me to lie and tell them I wouldn't play there because it was too far to drive. She was hoping that if enough players said they wouldn't play there, the executive might not move the league that far away.

Nigeria

 

I am mentoring a young man in Nigeria in System Dynamics once a week. We video chat at noon on Wednesdays which is 6 pm Nigerian time. We often chat for two or three hours. So by the time we are finished it is night in Nigeria. The power is not very reliable in Nigeria. So often I end up chatting with him while he is in his room in the dark working off the battery of his computer and the hotspot from his phone.

Lowquats

 

I was worried about all the lowquats on our side yard tree ripening and going to waste.  There were only so many lowquats I could eat without making myself sick. Then today when I was sitting out on the patio on the side yard, I saw lots of birds eating the lowquats right off the tree and was no longer worried.

My Shirt

 

At Rachel and Shannon's party, the first thing I did was spill dip on my shirt. Then a few days later after Cindy's memorial service, I spilled coffee on my shirt. Fortunately, it was a different shirt.

The Rebel

 

The line up at the car wash at the gas station at Costco was too long. So Barb tried to wash her car with the windshield washing water and brush. The man monitoring the gas station came up her and told her she couldn't do that.

Runners

Barb was learning how to make emojis of herself for Facebook messenger. She couldn't choose the shoes for her emoji without losing all her clothes. So her emoji looked like her in her runners and her underwear.

 

Go Canada

 

We often go over to parties at Rachel and Shannon's house. They are professional musicians and have sing-a-longs at their parties. Tonight they sang Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi and I wanted to yell "Go Canada" after they were finished but I was too shy.

You Say Composite

 

I went to Softball 'R Us to buy a new bat for the restricted bat league. I told the lady it couldn't be com-POS-ite. And she said you mean it can't be compos-IT. I never knew all this time I was saying composite wrong.

Impressive

 

In the living room, Barb was trying to explain an amazing pickleball move she made today. She stood up in from of her arm chair and jumped and swung her imaginary paddle and mashed the table lamp which went flying. The move seemed quite impressive to me.

Shirley and Joe

 

Barb has had trouble with the CRV battery since she got an oil change. She got it checked it out and they said it was okay. Then today the car died at pickleball. Her friend Shirley who she was playing with said she would go home, get her husband and come back to help. While she was gone, Barb asked an old man if he had jumper cables. He said he did and then he opened up his car and had all kinds of tools in it. He was able to start Barb's car. And just as Barb was about to leave Shirley and Joe returned. Barb thought how nice were Shirley and Joe.