Scheduling

Barb comes home from pickleball every Friday afternoon complaining about the pickleball court assignments that are used to schedule her games with the ladies.  She seems to always be playing with the same people and not getting to play at all with others.  She was complaining to the organizer lady and the lady said she got her court assignment schedules from an internet bridge tournament scheduling site.  I used to do schedules for my fastball leagues and Barb thought I could write better schedules.  The lady said it was very difficult but then she thought about it and realized I could probably do it.  Barb was telling me all this.  So I said I could try it.  So that is how I started writing a optimization program for Barb's pickleball court assignments that would take me all month.  All the ladies were very excited to see the new schedules.

Door

We have to be careful to make sure the door of the house is properly closed before we leave the house.  Today I came home from softball and found the door of the house wide open.  Most people in The Villages will lock there door just to go out in the garage and we don't even shut the door to go out for hours.

Directions

I was driving home from brunch with my sister and was at a stoplight in a nearby town.  A lady in the car beside me was trying to get my attention.  So I rolled down the passenger side window and she asked me whether The Villages was on this highway.  I said yes just up the road.  I wondered why she would think to ask me since I had an Ontario license plate.  Maybe it was all the pickleball stuff on the car.  Maybe she is a pickleball player and she knows the pickleball is a big think in The Villages.

Science and Technology Club

My softball game was cancelled today.  So I decided to go to Science and Technology Club to hear a lecture about Nuclear Power.  I was sitting in the back of the room and someone came to sit beside me and it was the husband of Barb's pickleball friend.  After the lecture, I asked him if he wanted to go for coffee.  So we went to Dunkin' Donuts around the corner.  We were sitting outside eating a bagel and drinking coffee when I noticed that the price of gas in the gas station across the road went from $2.06 a gallon to $2.29 a gallon.  There were some kids sitting outside with us and they were just screaming when they saw that.

Sarah

Sarah was struggling with her new job because she was working outside every day in - 20 degrees temperatures.  She sent us a message during one of the worst days with a selfie of her all bundled up and just her eyes showing.  She said she was shedding frozen tears.

Debit Card

Barb's debit card was declined at the quilt show in The Villages.  She phoned the bank and found out that since the vendor at the quilt show was from Ohio, the bank thought it was suspicious activity and had declined the purchase.

Work

I had accumulated a few hours of work that I wasn't able to claim last year because I had run out of days.  I asked my supervisor if I could claim them this year.  He said that it was between me and his boss to decide.  The next day he told me that he had talked to his boss and she said it would be okay.  I waited until payday came around and then I tried to get on my work computer.  I couldn't log on.  So I phoned the help desk and waited on hold for half an hour before I got someone to help me.  I told him my problem and he asked if I was using wifi or was hardwired in the internet.  I said I was using wifi.  He said then there was nothing he could do for me.  So I took my computer into the living room and tried to hook it into the router using the cable.  I reached behind the router and unplugged the cable from the router to plug it into my computer and then I realized that our phone uses the internet and I had just shut off my phone and lost the connection.