Quilt

Barb posted two pictures of her new quilt on her facebook page. Our bedroom looked like some kind of show house. She got 300 comments about how beautiful everyone of her friends thought it was.

Dayta

Barb was talking to her friends at pickleball about why we don't have cellphones in the US because we don't want to pay of dayta.  Her friends said what is dayta. Barb said you know dayta like you're able to use the internet on your phone. Her friends said oh you mean data.

Game Winner

My Buccaneers softball team is either very bad or very unlucky. We have only one two games out of the 12 we have played. We are tied for last place in a league of 24 teams. We have lost a lot of games in the last inning but today we had a chance to win the game in the last inning. The bottom of our batting order is pretty terrible and I start the decline batting in the number 8 spot out of 12 players. I came up to bat with the score tied and a runner on second base and hit a single between the third baseman and shortstop to win the game. We were all very happy.

The Curse of Knowledge

Barb's friend Loretta asked for my advice about her pension plan. I did an analysis and made some beautiful graphs to explain the break even points for when to take out her pension. I showed my write up with the graphs to Barb before I sent it to Loretta and Barb couldn't figure out the graphs at all. So I decided to write the analysis up in tables instead of graphs. I had been listening to a book on nonfiction writing and it talked about the curse of knowledge where the author knows what he is talking about and thinks his reader will understand it as well but usually doesn't. The suggestion was to get someone to read your work before you sent it out. This was a perfect example of how it worked.

Front Door

Barb decided we should go out for dinner and use a coupon that her friend had given her for a two for one meal at the Sweet Tomatoes Buffet Restaurant. As soon as she mentioned it, I got up and put on my shoes and went outside. I was going to pick up some oranges that had fallen off our tree but Barb thought I was in a hurry to go out to dinner. I always go around the front of the house to get to the orange tree while Barb always goes around the back of the house to get to the orange tree. As I was walking I saw a package on the steps of the front door. Usually all of our packages come to our side door. So I picked up the package and noticed it was slightly ripped open. I was looking into the package to see what it was and all of a sudden I was face down on the ground on the pavement of our front walk. I had smacked my head on the pavement and bent my glasses. At first, I didn't know where I was. Then I got up and felt the blood on my head and went inside to check the cut on my forehead. I was just a scratch and so it didn't stop us from going out for dinner but I will go around the back of the house to get to the orange tree in the future.

Rebel

Our community has one of the few outdoor hot tubs and Barb likes to go there after a hard day of pickleball. Today she went and found the pool and hot tub were closed for maintenance. There was a man in the hot tub. So Barb asked him how he got in the locked gate. The man said the entrance through the dressing rooms was open. So Barb went through there and into the pool and hot tub area. She was in the pool cooling of after getting out of the hot tub when a Community Security Officer came by and told her she had to leave.

Brunch

I get together with my sister for brunch once a month. She drives her RV and I drive my SUV. I usually park in the restaurant parking lot right beside her. Today she arrived before me. I didn't realize that her RV is a lot bigger than my SUV and it has a lot of over hang over the curb. So when I tried to line up my SUV with her RV in the parking spot I crashed into the curb.