Patty-Cake

 Barb's old friend Patty phoned my cell phone while I was out walking and I didn't answer it the first time she called, but when she phoned back immediately, I thought it might be necessary. I talked to her for quite a while. She wanted to speak with Barb and Barb, and I used to share my cell phone before Barb got a cell phone of her own. So Patty only had my number. She said she was worried about us because we caught Covid. When I told Barb about the call, she was amazed at how the word got around because Barb didn't want anyone to know we had caught Covid.

Kettle

 I make a cup of Tim Horton's instant coffee in the morning and really enjoy it, and it tastes just like the coffee you buy at the Tim Hortons shop. Today the kettle blew a short while preparing my coffee, and I left a note for Barb. Then while I was mentoring, Barb had time to go to the Thrift Shop across the road and buy another one.

Albums

 I have subscribed to an app called Freegal at two of my libraries to download 5 mp3 files containing songs from their collection of albums. I have been downloading many Bob Dylan songs, but the selection of albums that I get to choose from each week appears to be random. Then today, I noticed the button above the random album selections that said all albums. When I clicked it, all of the Bob Dylan albums in the collection were displayed, and I could choose from whichever I wanted to. That makes it so much easier to downtown the albums.

WhatsApp

I have been using WhatsApp to communicate with my mentees all over the World. They can use it to phone and wake me up if I sleep through a meeting. I was playing with WhatsApp at 4 am in the morning and saw a phone call from Pakistan. So I pushed a message and accidentally phoned him back.

Caught Up With Me

 Avon Park finally caught up with me and canceled my library card because I hadn't lived there for 3 years. But my Ottawa library card is still valid, and I haven't lived there in 5 years.

Executive Decision

 I spilled water on the keyboard of my laptop at night, and then in the morning, it wouldn't turn on. I took it to the computer shop downtown. They said they would look at it and phone me with an estimate the next day. They called while I was out for my walk and told Barb it was irreparable. So Barb made the executive decision to surprise me with a new computer. She went to the shop and picked out a fabulous computer that was an upgrade from what I had before, and the shop transferred my old system onto the number computer. Then she brought it home and surprised me with an early Christmas present before I got home from my walk.

Bifocals

 

Barb uses reading glasses to read her ebook and read on the computer, but the numbers on her phone for her Yahtzee are so small that she has to use two pairs of glasses simultaneously. This gives new meaning to bifocals.