Reset Day

On the same day, I had to restart the wifi and reset Barb's Android and reset Barb's ebook reader and reset Barb's computer.  I don't think anything else of Barb's electronics could go wrong.

Bad Girl

Barb was at Costco and when she came out with her cart it had just started to rain.  She didn't want to ruin her hair, so she unpacked her cart quickly and just pushed the cart between the cars. She didn't bring the cart back to the collection place.  Then she had to walk around the cart between the cars to get to the driver's door.  On the way around the cart she banged her sore knee badly on this thing sticking out of the other car's bumper.  She hurt her knee again and all because she didn't bring her cart back.

Android Two

Barb got a virus on her Android and I had to reset it to factory settings but she needed her google account and password and she couldn't remember the user name or the password.  After trying many different things we finally came across the right combination.  I told Barb she needed to write all these things down somewhere for safe keeping.  Then I realized that I didn't write down my user names and passwords either.  So I made of note to myself.  Then Barb had to find all of her ring tones again and it took her quite a while and she was very noisy.

Android

Barb really loved her new Android.  She wasn't using it as a phone but the same way that she uses her iPod.  She likes to use Messenger from facebook and can't load that on her iPod because the operating system is too old.  She doesn't like the fact that the Android doesn't push her email to her when she receives them but instead only pushes it every 15 minutes when it sync's.  So she still brings her iPod around with her to know when she gets an email even though she reads her email on her Android.  I have an Android too but since I got it from Barb's friend in the US second hand it is stilled locked to her plan.  I looked up how you can unlock it but it was quite confusing if I didn't want to pay for it and even then it was a little confusing.  So Barb bought me an Android just like hers.  However, they look identical and one night Barb brought mine into the bedroom with her by mistake and couldn't understand why there were no preset alarms on it.

Homework

Ali and Sarah took us out for dinner to say goodbye to us before we left for Florida.  After dinner, we came back to the house and I got Ali to come into my office to show him my program on the refugee crisis.  I had sent him some papers about my work and he tried to figure out what I was trying to do with not a lot of luck.  So I thought it might be helpful for him to see the programs themselves.  I also had printed out my documentation and put it in a binder.  So I gave him the binder.  Barb and Sarah asked me if I was giving Ali homework to do when they saw him carrying the binder when they left that night.

Good Clothes

Sarah had been doing a lot of work outdoors in the cold and one of her co-workers told her that she got some great thermal underwear at Giant Tiger.  So when Ali and Sarah took us out for dinner in Stratford we were about 20 minutes early for our reservation.  Instead of going in early, Ali took us to the Giant Tiger.  Sarah bought a whole bunch of thermal underwear while I looked at the book section.  At the check out, Barb asked me where I had been I said I was in the book section and I pointed to it on the other side of the store.  There was a little sign that said books and the smallest little book shelf but what do you expect in Giant Tiger.  Then the lady at the cash register told Sarah that the thermal underwear that she was buying was really great and we went to the restaurant in time for our reservation.

It Pays to Ask

I had to do two blood tests for my two doctors.  My appointments were a week apart. So I asked if I could do the tests at the same time and the lady said no I couldn't because they were asking for many of the same tests.  So I did the test for the first appointment with my GP in the clinic.  Then I came back a week later to do the test for my second appointment with my specialist in Kitchener.  I walked to the clinic and it took me about 45 minutes to get there.  When I was walking in the door I saw a sign saying that they were only doing blood tests for doctors in the clinic and if you needed a blood test for some other doctor you had to go to another test center about another 45 minutes walk away.  I went in anyway and the lady said I had to go down the street.  I said I did have a doctor in this clinic did that make any difference and she said in that case yes I could do the test there.  It pays to ask.