Printing

I had many forms to fill in and email to DND to start my emeritus work.  So today I thought I would spend some time getting organized.  So I printed out all the forms that I had filled in and signed and emailed and was going to put them all in a file folder.  After I had printed them all out and punched holes in them, I got out my file and when I looked inside I found out that I had already printed all the forms and put them in file.  How could I have forgotten that I did that already?

Pool Music

Barb started doing water aerobics at the pool and she liked to listen to music while she was working out.  The radio there sometimes worked great and sometimes was all static.  I said it must be something wrong with the antenna.  I told her she could bring the radio in the sun room down to the pool.  I meant my big boom box but Barb thought I meant the little radio in the kitchen.  She thought I was a genius and it worked great and was small and easy to carry in her pool bag.

We'll Call You

I signed my letter of offer to start my scientist emeritus contract with DND and was supposed to start today.  I was asked to estimate how many days I could work in 2017.  I said about 20 days but I would have to start right away.  So I emailed them and asked them if I could start today and they replied that I was hired on an as required basis and that my supervisor would get in touch with me when they have some work for me.  That is, don't call us we'll call you.  A couple of weeks later I emailed them again and asked when I could come in and pick up my computer, again they replied that they would call me when they had a computer for me to pick up.  That is, don't call us, we'll call you.

Quilt Show

Barb wanted to take some pictures of the quilts at the quilt show to show her friend Ellen.  However, for some reason the camera on her new Android wasn't working.  She was very upset.  She asked an old man sitting in the waiting area if he knew anything about smartphones and cameras and he said he was too old.  Then she asked an old woman.  Old people are the only people at quilt shows.  So Barb wasn't too hopeful.  The lady took her Android and turned it off and then turned it on again and the camera worked.  Barb asked the old lady how she knew to do that and she said her daughter showed her that that always works with she has a problem with her phone.

Fake Ice Cap

We often find that we don't drink all the coffee in the pot at night and leave the pot half filled for the next day.  Then we heat cups up in the microwave.  Today I made coffee for Barb using the remainder of the coffee from yesterday but I forgot to heat it up in the microwave.  Barb couldn't believe how cold the coffee had gotten after I had only given it to her a few minutes before.  Then she realized that I was giving her a fake ice cap.

Getting Older

Barb was finally getting around to checking prices for travel insurance for our time in Florida.  She first checked with the company we had last year and found out that my insurance had doubled because I had turned 60.  Then she went to the company we had two years ago and found out that their rates don't jump until I turn 61.  So she saved a couple of hundred bucks going back to that company.

Swiping

Barb was very excited when Sarah showed her how swipe type.  She thought it was so great she wanted to teach me how but I couldn't get the hang of it.  Then she discovered that she could use speech to text and speech to email.  She freaked out. She tried it with me and thought it was going to be great but later she realized that she didn't like the way she talked.  She thought it looked stupid when she saw her spoken words in text.  She would have to go back and edit everything she said to make it into presentable English.  She went back to swiping and still loves it.