Nortel

I had made a friend at the softball evaluations.  His name is Ron and he is an older fellow from North Carolina.  I told him that I used to live in Ottawa and he said that he used to go to Ottawa for work a lot a few years back.  He said that he worked for Nortel in the accounting office.  So he saw the bankruptcy coming and got out in time to collect his pension.  So after our evaluation today, we were told that there was a batting practice at another diamond close by.  So I drove there and when I got there Ron found me and said that the diamonds were all full and the batting practice was going to be back at the evaluation diamonds.  He said that he knew which car was mine because I had Ontario license plates.

Rain

We have been listening to a radio station from Woodstock, Ontario on the internet because the station we were listening to here was playing only the top 10 songs over and over again and it was driving me crazy.  Today Barb heard that it was going to rain tomorrow and was worried that her pickle ball would be cancelled.  Then I reminded her that she was listening to the radio from Woodstock.

Grey Cup

I got up early to try to find a way to watch the Grey Cup live on Kodi.  I tried a lot of things and nothing seemed to work.  I read about this package from Pakistan that had a lot of live television.  After trying a number of ways to get the Add-On, I finally found out how to download and install it.  I was able to get TSN and was able to watch the Grey Cup.  I spent the 5 hours in the afternoon watching the per-game show and then enjoyed watching Ottawa upset Calgary in the real game live.

Pictures

Barb found that the pictures that she took on my iPad look better than the pictures she can take on her iPod.  So she took a lot of pictures of our house and emailed them from my iPad to Ellen.  She was disappointed that Ellen was not commenting on her pictures after she sent them.  Barb thought maybe Ellen wasn't on her computer.  Later I found out that Barb was emailed the pictures from my iCloud account and Ellen was just hitting reply with her comments.  Barb thought she would reply to her btdolls account but she wasn't.  So when I showed Barb all of the replies from Ellen she was happy.  Ellen was quite impressed with our house especially all the green colour in the rugs, the wall and the curtains.

Proposal

Ali iMessaged me which I thought was a little different.  He asked how I was and then he asked if he could have my permission to marry Sarah.  I said that he didn't need my permission but we were very happy for them.  Barb and Sarah and Ali were iMessaging much of the evening chatting about the proposal and the rings and how happy we all are.

Mirror

Barb realized that there was no full length mirror in our new house.  Every well dressed woman needs a full length mirror to see how her clothes look.  So she went out to Bed Bath and Beyond and bought a full length mirror.  Then when she went to put it up in the house she looked to put it up on the back of the door in the spare bedroom.  There she found a full length mirror.  So she had to return the one she bought.

OOMA

Our new phone system is great and only costs $15 a month with unlimited long distance in North America.  We were able to port our Canadian number over and get a new Florida number.  Barb wanted to change the call display for our outgoing calls to say Barb and Ivan Taylor.  So she called the company in California.  The man said that they couldn't put my name on the display because my name isn't on the billing information.  However, Barb tested out the system and phoned her pickle ball friend who picked up and said Hi Barb.