Friend

I met many old friends at the tournament.  There was one guy who told me he was thinking when he put a team in the tournament that he should call me to come and coach his team.  He always credits me for his playing career because when he first started playing as an adult I was the first coach to use him seriously and believe in him.  There were at least two other players who have told me in the past that they are the players they are today because I believed in them.

Glasses

I was at the ball tournament in Ottawa and before our game I was standing beside the third base line fence talking to an old friend.  I went to scratch my head and I knocked my glasses off and onto the field.  Between innings, I had to jump over the fence to retrieve my glasses and I am not too agile.  I almost killed myself.

Carling Campus

I went to see the Carling Campus which used to be the Nortel Buildings and were being converted to take NDHQ.  I had a terrible time finding the entrance.  There were about four entrances that you could drive in sort of.  But the one that I wanted was way around the back of the buildings.  Then I was escorted into the buildings and it was about a 15 minute walk to the offices. The offices were very modernistic.  I had a nice visit there with some old friends and the boss lady told me that they had a lot of money to pay for part time employees and asked me if I wanted to work part time next year.  I said sure I would like that.  I have time on my hands to use for real work that I would get paid for.  Right now I just working on projects for fun and for free.

NDHQ

I went to visit my old work place in Ottawa, National Defence Headquarters.  I got escorted around to see old friends I hadn't seen since I had retired 5 years ago.  Two of the people that I talked to said that they were just talking about me.  The librarian about books I had donated that she was going to give back to me. And a scientist who had recently read an old report that I wrote and thought it was pretty good work.

Chrisy's

We were staying at Chrisy's house when we visited Ottawa.  Barb played some pickle ball with her old friends and I coached a team in the Gil Read tournament and hung out with old fastball friends.  One night we were sitting in Chrisy's living room and we heard a great crash upstairs.  Barb realized that when she hung up the towels on the curtain rod of the shower that the curtain rod was only held there for the curtain.  The towels were too heavy.  So the curtain rod came crashing down into the bath tub.

Freegal

Barb was complaining about the music that I downloaded legally from the library for her.  Some of her favourite songs weren't by the original artists.  They were cover versions and Barb thought they were not as good.  Also some of her favourite music was not available on Freegal.  It has a limited library. Then Sarah showed me how to pirate music using a YouTube to MP3 converter program.  Together we found a lot of music that we thought Barb might like.  It was definitely not Freegal.

Slow Down

There are signs all over our community that tell everyone we live at a slower pace here.  The speed limit is only 15 km/hr on the streets in the community.  It is hard to drive that slow especially when you are driving down hill.  Barb never drives that slow if there is no one else on the road.  She doesn't drive fast just not that slow.  She was driving home from the pool today and an old lady was sitting on her porch and saw her driving.  She started yelling at Barb to slow down.