29 January 2026

I met my Neighbourhood Watch friend again tonight, and he had another joke. He said, “This old lady called the police, saying someone had broken into her car and stolen her stereo, her steering wheel and even her accelerator and brake pedals. Later, the policeman phoned in his report saying, “Nevermind, we found that she got into the back seat.”

28 January 2026

 My friendly Neighbourhood Watch man stopped me on my evening walk to tell me a joke. He said, “I had to call the police the other day. An old man broke into his house. He didn’t see him until he went into the bathroom.”

27 January 2026

Barb went to Sam’s on the way home from afternoon pickleball and decided to pick up a pizza, but she was concerned that the last time she'd gotten a pizza there, it had been lousy. There was no cheese or tomato sauce, and the crust was burned. So, when she went to get a pizza today, she told the man about her disappointment last time, and he said maybe this time it would be better and gave her two big pieces of pizza for free.

18 January 2026

Barb heard a joke today. Two couples were meeting for the first time. The husband introduces his wife, saying, “She has been correcting me for 33 years.” The wife says, “34.”

I have been having trouble with my computer mouse on my Windows computer. It stops working, I take the battery out and put it back in, and then it works again. I was using my Windows computer outside on the patio, got cold, and brought it into the bedroom. My mouse wasn’t working. So, I decided to replace the battery. I went to the kitchen, got a new battery, put it in the mouse, and went back to the bedroom. The mouse still didn’t work. Finally, I realized I was using my Linux mouse, and my Windows mouse was in my pocket.

17 January 2026

Today I had a meeting from 11 am to 11:30. I was eating breakfast when it started. Then I had a break until my next meeting at 1 pm. I was going to have a nap in my chair, but then I decided to lie in bed with my housecoat, socks, and slippers on. I slept until my alarm went off at 12:45, and then Barb came in to laugh at me having a nap with all those clothes on. As I was explaining myself, I reached into my pyjama pocket and realized I had been sleeping on my breakfast banana.

15 January 2026

I was telling Barb a sad story about a leader from INCOSE who died this week. Barb asked how old he was. I said he was the same age as her. I said he was a 58. She got mad and said she wasn’t 58, she was only 57. And I replied, no, I meant he was born in 1958, like her. And then I said, by the way, you're 67.

14 January 2026

I always have trouble getting my Sketchers on for my walk. I asked Barb to buy me a new pair like the ones at home that I can just slip my feet into. She did, and now I have no trouble putting on my shoes for my walk. But for some unknown reason, I always get stones in my new shoes, and I have to stop during my walk to empty the little stones out. I didn’t have that problem with the old shoes. So, I guess there is always a good side and a bad side to everything.

Barb bought me a headset for my Linux computer. Not to be confused with the wireless earbuds she bought me for my phone that now work on my Windows computer. The headset is a USB system with a couple of lights on the switch. One of them lights up when the mic is on mute. There is another light that is on all the time, but I guess it is supposed to turn the earphones on and off. I would never use that, but somehow today I turned off the earphones, and it wouldn’t turn back on, no matter how many times I pressed the button. I was going to call Barb to come and fix it for me since she is such a computer wizard now. Then suddenly it worked again.

I was cutting sheets of paper into small pieces to make notes for the blog, using a heavy-duty pair of scissors. I was on Facebook while I was cutting the papers. And all of a sudden, Facebook started to scroll down uncontrollably. I thought someone was trying to sabotage my Facebook, but I guess I must have placed the scissors on the keyboard, so it was pressing the down arrow key.