Nithburg

I was going to be missing a ball game because of the tournament in Ottawa.  So I gave John, on my team, the equipment bag and the helmets but I forgot to give him the game balls.  So I contacted him and said I would drive over to his place and drop them off.  I set Betsy for his address in Nithburg and started out.  Betsy brought me to St Clements and told me I was there but I knew I wasn't in Nithburg.  I didn't know where Nithburg was.  Fortunately, the St Clements public library was open.  So I parked and went in and talked to the librarian.  She didn't know where Nithburg was either but she was able to look it up on Google Maps and print out directions for me.  When I finally got there, no one answered the door.  So I went around to the backyard and John's wife and kids were there.  John came out of the house and I don't know why he didn't hear me knocking.  But I gave him the game balls and we talked for a while.  I told him how my GPS failed me and he just laughed.

Smoothie

Barb is always frustrated with all the commercials on the radio.  She likes listening to her Hedley CD but she was looking for a little more variety.  I had just started using the library, Freegal, system to download music.  So I downloaded some music that I thought she might like.  I wanted to write it to a CD for her but the only CD I had was a read writable CD.  When I wrote the music to that CD, I found that it wouldn't play in the car for some reason.  Then I thought I could put it on an old iPod shuffle that I was no longer using.  So I put her music on it and showed Barb how to use it in the car using the auxiliary plug.  Almost the first day she tried to use it, she was driving and fumbling around with the iPod and it slipped out of her hand and dropped, plunk, into her smoothie.

Canadian Customs

Barb went to Michigan to play in a pickle ball tournament and she was very disappointed because she didn't win anything.  In fact, in both events she went out early.  It was a long way to go to go two and out.  Anyway, Barb was coming back over the border and she was talking to the US Customs guy about where she had gone and how she was playing in a pickle ball tournament.  He said are you bringing back anything.  Barb said no she didn't win.  She thought he was talking about medals from the tournament but he was actually talking about booze or cigarettes.

Sarah and Haley Visit

Barb decided it might be nice to sit outside on the deck when Haley and Sarah visited.  So she put out the awning so they sit out and could stay out of the sun.  While they were in the kitchen talking, the wind started blowing and it started to pour rain.  Then we heard a crash on the deck.  We went out to see the awning was broken and half lying on the deck.  We never liked that awning because we never used it and the birds seemed to think it was a good place to roast and would poop all over it and on the deck under it.  So we decided we would just take it down but we didn't have the right tools.  So we asked our friend who built Barb's fabric shelves.  He said that it was too big a job for him but we could ask Ross who was the handyman in the park.  Barb knew Ross from bingo/darts.  So she phoned Ross and told him about the awning and he said that he had seen the awning collapsed on our deck.  He said he would come over when he could and look at it.  It took him a couple of weeks.  Then when he did come over Barb was out at pickle ball and I was still in my pajamas.  He went out to look at it and I quickly got dressed to go out with him.  He said he would come back with his friend Paul Taylor and take it down probably on the weekend.  I told him we were going to Ottawa for the weekend.  He said no problem.  We went to Ottawa and when we got back the awning was taken away.  I guess Ross put it out for the garbage and it was taken by someone for scrap metal.  Ross told Barb he wasn't happy with the sealing of the electrical system that was used to roll out and roll in the awning.  He told Barb to call another guy in the park to come around and fix it for us.  So Barb called the guy but before he could come over Paul came back to properly disconnected the electrical system.  Then Barb called the electrical guy back and told him he didn't need to come.

Pool

Barb has decided she would try water aerobics at the community indoor pool.  She went down for the first time and tried to exercise her knee without putting too much weight on it. When she got home, she noticed that her silver bracelet was all tarnished.  She realized that chlorine in the pool really strong and it had ruined her bracelet.  She got out her tarnish remover and spent hours rubbing the bracelet and the tarnish came off slowly and there was a lot of tarnish.  Later she noticed after going the pool for a few days that he bathing suit was a different colour than before and she noticed that she had lost all the hair from her arms.  She went to the office to complain and she talked to other ladies who use the pool and they said they had noticed the same thing.  Obviously they were putting too much chlorine in the water.  Barb kept going to the pool and eventually the water got better and the hair grew back on her arms but her bathing suits continued to get ruined.

Computer Battery

The lamp in my office is plugged into a wall plug that is connected to the light switch on the wall beside the door.  I had been using Laura's old speakers on my computer and the speakers and the computer were plugged into the wall.  I was working away and suddenly my computer said the battery was low and I should replace the battery.  I was freaking out.  I couldn't figure out why my computer wasn't charging even though it was plugged into the wall.  I didn't want to have to replace the battery.  After a while, I realized that my computer was plugged into plug for the lamp and since the wall switch wasn't on, there was no power coming out that plug.  So I went to the sun room and borrowed the multi-plug thingy and plugged that into the wall plug so that I could plug the lamp into one plug and the computer and the speakers into another plug and both of these plugs were plugged into the socket that worked.

No Lights

The captain of the team wasn't at the game tonight and we were supposed to be the home team and were supposed to set up the field.  We were supposed to turn on the lights but I didn't have a key for the door where the light switch was.  So one of the players on the other team called his Dad who came out and turned on the lights for us.  At the next game the captain was there and he was searching in the equipment bag.  I asked him what he was searching for and he said he was searching for the key to door for the lights.  He couldn't find it but he knew we had one.  After the game, he told me that he remembered giving the key to me and telling me to hook it on the equipment bag because I was taking the equipment now.  I said that I never had the key that he never gave it to me.  He said go and check your car.  So I went back and checked my car and found the key in the side pocket of the driver's door.   I then vaguely remembered him giving me the key and instead of putting it on the equipment bag right then I decided to put it on at the next game.  Of course, I forgot all about it.  I was embarrassed when I went back and told him I had found the key and I had had it all along just like he said.