Hot Water

Barb always makes fun of me when I do something stupid while making coffee.  Most of time I forgot to put the pot on the burner when I start the coffee maker and the coffee pours out all over the counter.  So I thought it funny when Barb made a pot of hot water because she put in the water but forgot to put coffee in the coffee maker before she started it up.

Perfect Cards

Julia sent me a perfect birthday card that even arrived on my birthday.  On the front was a picture of a big comfy recliner chair with a laptop computer and it even had speakers attached to it.  It was just like my big comfy chair in the sun room.

Sarah gave me a homemade card on which she drew two hot dogs and had the poem about fat and skinny.  I was reminded of the days when I used to put Sarah to bed in Barrhaven.  We couldn't have done fat and skinny if she didn't have a waterbed.

Barb got me a card with a picture of the F distribution on the cover and a funny mathematical formula inside.

Birthday Dinner

I decided for my birthday we should go out for fish and chips at a local chip wagon.  I knew there was a great chip wagon about 20 minutes North of us so we drove there.  We found out that they had just changed to fall hours and weren't open on Wednesdays anymore.  So we drove back home and decided to drive to a different chip wagon that was 20 minutes West of us.  When we got there we found that the chip wagon was gone for the winter.  So we drove home again.  Barb knew of great chip wagon about 20 minutes East of us.  So we drove there.  We got there just a little after they had closed for the evening.  So we drove home and ended up at McDonalds around the corner from our house and Barb has a Big Mac meal.  I still had my heart set on fish and chips so I had a filet of fish sandwich meal.  I found out it was just a little square of fried fish with a little piece of cheese on it inside a bun.  There was no sauce or anything else on it.  It was a sad way to celebrate my birthday.

We Get Rain

We had a major drought this summer in New Hamburg but when it rains here it really pours.  I was heading out the door to drive to St Thomas to see my old friend Jimmy Parkins and it started to rain.  I decided to wait until it stopped raining and I had to wait an hour.  Then when it stopped raining I left and the first thing I had to do was fill up with gas.  So I went to neighbourhood gas station and there were a lot of cars lined up at the McDonald's drive through next door to the gas station as usual but tonight they were driving through about two feet of water in a giant puddle.  Fortunately, the gas station was on higher ground and I didn't have to get gas in a puddle.

Walking Through Doorways

I sent Barb a Facebook post about how as you get older you find that when you walk through a doorway into another room you forget why you were coming into that room and that it was caused by the doorway not you.  Barb said she didn't realize that it was because of doorway that that happened.  Today Barb came into the kitchen saying "The greatest thing I ever did ... " then she says "I forgot what I was going to say".  How could she forget "the greatest thing".

Recording

The reason I had kept the old XP desktop computer for so long was that it had the turntable that Barb had given me hooked up to it with special software to record my old LPs onto the computer as mp3 files.  I was very disappointed when I couldn't use my XP computer anymore.  Then I found this great Linux software for recording my LPs.  It even has the ability to remove clicks from scratches on the LPs.  However, I found that my computer doesn't have enough power for me to listen to the LP while I am recording it.  So I have to record the LPs in silence and then later edit the files and save them on the computer.  It takes about an hour to record on side of one LP.  So you can see how upset I was when I kept hitting the 45 rpm speed by accident and recording whole sides of LPs as if the Chipmunks were singing.  I would have to delete my recording and start over again. I was wasting a great deal of time.

Surprise

At Ruth and Ron's surprise going away party, I had to eat first because I had to leave early to go to a doctor's appointment.  When I was eating, I had trouble separating the paper plates.  I guess to save money the lady who organized the party had bought exactly enough paper plates and knives and forks for the number of people who were attending.  Barb came home and told me that they were one plate short when they were serving the food.  I checked and found that I taken two plates by accident.