Genius or Crazy?

Barb came home from pickleball, found me, and said I was either genius or crazy. I asked what did I do now. She said she was starving when she came home from pickleball and pulled out the container of potato salad, and when she opened it, she found that I had left my spoon in the container. So she didn't have to get a spoon. She said I was either a genius or crazy.

Garbage

Barb woke up early and put out the garbage. Then, that night, she couldn't find her pyjamas. She searched the whole house and couldn't find them. She thought she must have thrown them in the garbage. Finally, she looked again in the drawer of her bedside table, and there they were, neatly folded under her winter pyjamas.

Old Couples

Two old couples came in to play as Barb was leaving the pickleball court today. On the first point, one of the old men was trying to move backward, but he got his feet all tangled up and fell on the ground. He didn't hurt himself, but he was lying on his back with his feet in the air. Then he farted really loudly.

Calendar

 My old iPad can't connect to the computer, but it knows the correct time and the date. However, when I look at my calendar, I see meetings from four years ago.

Hiding

I wanted to take a picture of my new office chair that Barb bought me for Valentine's Day to send to Stan. I was setting up the picture and wanted to hide my Diet Coke can on the desk. So I put the can behind my computer. The next day, I was looking all over for my can holder. I asked Barb if she had seen it, and she said she saw it behind my computer when she came into my office. I would never have found it there.

No News is Good News

I have stopped reading the news because I don't want to think about the situation in the US and the problems it is creating in the world. I used to love reading The Economist, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. But I had decided to stop even opening the newsletters because I didn't want to know about it. I just wanted to keep my head in the sand for four years, and then I thought things would return to normal. I asked myself what I could read. I said I could read Scientific American. So, one night, I couldn't sleep, and I got out my iPad and started reading old issues. I started with the oldest issue on my iPad from 2017. I started reading from the beginning, and the first three articles were about the terrible situation in the US because he was president in 2017. The articles were about scientists marching against anti-science policies and the crazy alternative facts that were being spread by the US administration. I couldn't get away from it.

My iPad

 Barb was talking about how she likes her Kindle. I said I could read books on my iPad. She said she had an iPad she was not using because she was not playing Yahtzee anymore. I had an iPad I wasn't using, too. It had been left here by the previous owner and was in my bedside table drawer, but it was old, and I thought I wouldn't have the right cable to charge it. I looked in my drawer and found the iPad, and there was a cable in the drawer, too. So, I charged up the iPad that night. Then, the following day, I turned on the iPad and realized why I was not using the iPad. It was so old that it was no longer compatible with our WiFi and couldn't be hooked to the internet. I thought it was a brick. I looked closer at the internet hook-up screen; at the bottom, it said to use offline with iTunes. That might work. I need iTunes to get books on my iPad anyway. I could use the iPad offline as an ebook reader. I hooked the iPad up to my laptop, and iTunes worked automatically. Then, I could quickly transfer books from my computer to my iPad. So, I moved over my collection of Scientific American magazines.