Honking

Barb was with her friend coming home from pickleball and she was driving a different way home.  She saw me driving home from softball and she came up behind me at a traffic circle.  She honked to get my attention.  I heard the person behind me honk and I thought he wanted me to move.  So I pulled into the traffic circle and almost got in an accident.  Then I realized that it was Barb and her friend in the car behind me and I waved and drove fast to get out of the way of the oncoming car.

Post Office

There is a grungy Post Office not far from our house but there is a nice Post Office just a little farther away.  So Barb was going out to the nicer Post Office for the first time since we have been here.  When she got there it was closed.  She didn't know why it was closed.  Then she found out it was Martin Luther King Jr Day, a national holiday.

Caitlyn

A friend of Barb's friend was visiting but her friend was not even home she was back in Philadelphia because someone in her family died.  Anyway the friend of the friend was messaging Barb saying she was bored and asking to get together.  Barb was hesitant responding and the friend of the friend messaged and she could accept rejection. She said she would just go a to movie.  She said she heard The Green Book was pretty good.  So Barb started to feel bad and I encouraged Barb to invite Caitlyn over for dinner and a movie.  I said we could get The Green Book on Kodi.  So Barb rushed out to Sam's to buy a roast chicken.  Sam's was almost closing and Barb got there just in time to get the last chicken available.  She thought she would have to fight another lady to get the chicken.

Brunch Delayed

My sister and I get together for brunch once a month.  We were trying to get organized and I emailed her and asked her if she was free on Friday.  She wrote back saying no, could we postpone it until next week because her visitor Sandra is "flighting" out on Friday.

Spotify

I was getting frustrated with my Ottawa radio station because it kept cutting out during my favourite songs.  So I decided to try Spotify.  I found my account and put on a playlist of Bob Dylan songs and really enjoyed it but then I realized that I could listen to my music in iTunes on my computer and I have even better music there.

Tennis

We don't have live TV.  So we can't watch live sports when something big is happening.  Barb was happy then when she stayed with my sister for a few days while she was playing a pickleball tournament near where my sister lives.  She was able to watch some of the Australian Open tennis tournament while she was there.

Registration Problems

Barb was trying to register online for the US Open and they had a special window of time for her category.  She knew that the registration fills up fast so she tried to register as soon as the window opened.  She had trouble logging on and was struggling for 12 minutes before she saw the phone number at the bottom of the registration page to call if you have trouble getting online.  She phoned the number and found out that somehow she was listed as a Guest and not a Member when she was trying to register.  He changed her status to a member and she got in right away.  But by the time she got in all the spots were full.  She was wondering if all of the 4.0 players who registered an hour earlier than her had taken all the spots.  She texted the organizers to complain and the organizer said that there were an equal number of spots for the 4.0 and the 4.5 players.  Then she realized the VIPs could register early if they paid the many hundreds of dollars to be VIPs.  So she thinks that the VIPs had taken all the spots.  Fortunately, some of her partners had been able to register and because they got in she will get to play with them.