Sarah gave us presents of coffee cups. Mine was green and had my name and a baseball, and I didn't notice it said, Grampa Ivan.
Saturday, 5 March 2022
Listen
I read an article on how to get your 10-year old to stop rambling about his online video game, and I thought it might help me with Barb and her Yahtzee. But there was no way to do it, and you had to listen to them to show that you love them.
Popups
Haleigh and Sarh suggested a website called Soap2Day to watch television on. I set it up with an ad blocker, but it stopped working. Barb wanted to show me the popups. So I watched with Barb, and a popup of a naked lady on a couch came up. It is a sketchy website, and I needed to set up a better ad blocker.
Gum
Barb chews gum while we walk and throws out the gum afterward. I made coffee and shook the grounds into the garbage, and the gum stuck to the filter basket. Then I made coffee with gum on it, and Barb found it and used goo gone to get the gum off.
Hatch
Barb took the cover off the SUV hatch to fit the chair in the trunk and put it on the roof of the Toyota. The next day our neighbor Barry found it on the road and brought it over.
Recording
I tried to video my presentation using Zoom, and Barb walked into my office. At the same time, I was recording because my alarm on my iPad went off.
Chair
Barb bought a big chair at Costco because her lounge chair sheds fake leather. She wanted to back the SUV into the driveway using the back camera on the car. Still, the driveway was all white with the snow, and she tried about 10 times to get the suitable space between the garden and my red car. Then she almost hit the garage.
Appointment
My glasses keep falling down my nose. So I went to get my glasses adjusted at the optician in New Hamburg that I had never been to. I sat there and watched a lady spend a half-hour trying to find me as a patient in the computer system because everyone who goes in is supposed to have an appointment. I wasn't in the system. So she snuck me in.
Nose
I slept in my chair because my CPAP mask hurt my nose and infected the cut. Barb took time off her Yahtzee to take pictures of my nose and sent them to the doctor. Then she called the CPAP store and got some great information about new masks. She is always taking care of me.
Lost
I thought I had lost all my little notes with my blog ideas on them. Then I found them on top of my electric pencil sharpener, and then I wrote a little note about finding them.
Bang
I got up from my office chair to go to the bathroom, and Barb was in the other bathroom. There was a big bang. Barb thought I fell, and I thought Barb fell. But it was actually the filing cabinet drawers had slid open, and the filing cabinet had fallen over, and all the things on top of the cabinet came crashing to the floor.
Barb wanted to listen to my audiobook while we walked together. She found a breast pocket on my reflective vest to put the phone, so we could play the audiobook, and she could hear it too.
New App
Barb has been complaining about her friends being on the new Yahtzee leagues and her not. She kept harassing the developers to upgrade her to be with her friends, and they didn't understand her problem. Her problem turned out that she didn't know how to update the App in the Google Store. Ivan showed her how and then she was so happy. But then she found that the new App used too much RAM to be able to play two games at the same time from her two accounts. So now she has gotten out her old phone and wants to install one of the Apps on it and play with two phones simultaneously.
Nesting
Barb was cleaning up the house and found an Easter egg Sarah had left for us years ago, and I said she was nesting.
Charger
Barb uses the portable battery charger Laura gave her all the time to charge her phone and play Yahtzee at the same time. She was running around the house screaming that she couldn't find her battery charger and her phone was going to die. It was on the stove right beside its usual place on the counter, but she couldn't see it because the charger was white and the stovetop was white.
Resolutions
Barb spent the day walking around the house, reading her ebook to clear her plugged nose. She was completing two New Year's Resolutions simultaneously, reading and walking.
Confetti
I was punching holes in a 240-page document when the hole punch bottom fell off, and all the confetti got all over my wireless keyboard. It took me a long time to get the confetti out from between the keys.
Good One
Barb said something that I thought was funny, but Barb didn't. I said "Good One," but she didn't laugh, which made it even funnier to me.
Wireless
Sarah was upset that I had destroyed my old laptop. So she gave me a wireless keyboard and mouse, and I set them up in my office. Then I put a plastic bag over my keyboard for extra safety. Now I can drink things at my desk and not worry.
Patty-Cake
Barb's old friend Patty phoned my cell phone while I was out walking and I didn't answer it the first time she called, but when she phoned back immediately, I thought it might be necessary. I talked to her for quite a while. She wanted to speak with Barb and Barb, and I used to share my cell phone before Barb got a cell phone of her own. So Patty only had my number. She said she was worried about us because we caught Covid. When I told Barb about the call, she was amazed at how the word got around because Barb didn't want anyone to know we had caught Covid.
Kettle
I make a cup of Tim Horton's instant coffee in the morning and really enjoy it, and it tastes just like the coffee you buy at the Tim Hortons shop. Today the kettle blew a short while preparing my coffee, and I left a note for Barb. Then while I was mentoring, Barb had time to go to the Thrift Shop across the road and buy another one.
Albums
I have subscribed to an app called Freegal at two of my libraries to download 5 mp3 files containing songs from their collection of albums. I have been downloading many Bob Dylan songs, but the selection of albums that I get to choose from each week appears to be random. Then today, I noticed the button above the random album selections that said all albums. When I clicked it, all of the Bob Dylan albums in the collection were displayed, and I could choose from whichever I wanted to. That makes it so much easier to downtown the albums.
I have been using WhatsApp to communicate with my mentees all over the World. They can use it to phone and wake me up if I sleep through a meeting. I was playing with WhatsApp at 4 am in the morning and saw a phone call from Pakistan. So I pushed a message and accidentally phoned him back.
Caught Up With Me
Avon Park finally caught up with me and canceled my library card because I hadn't lived there for 3 years. But my Ottawa library card is still valid, and I haven't lived there in 5 years.
Executive Decision
I spilled water on the keyboard of my laptop at night, and then in the morning, it wouldn't turn on. I took it to the computer shop downtown. They said they would look at it and phone me with an estimate the next day. They called while I was out for my walk and told Barb it was irreparable. So Barb made the executive decision to surprise me with a new computer. She went to the shop and picked out a fabulous computer that was an upgrade from what I had before, and the shop transferred my old system onto the number computer. Then she brought it home and surprised me with an early Christmas present before I got home from my walk.
Bifocals
Barb uses reading glasses to read her ebook and read on the computer, but the numbers on her phone for her Yahtzee are so small that she has to use two pairs of glasses simultaneously. This gives new meaning to bifocals.
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