Quick Deletion

Barb was trying to iMessage her pickleball partner in Florida.  She just replied to the last message she had received.  It turned out that she had messaged her quilting rival instead of her pickleball partner.  Fortunately, Barb quickly found a way to delete the message before her rival read it and all was good.

Barb’s Big Purchase

Barb loved the low fat hotdogs she bought last year when she was in Florida.  At first, she couldn’t find the hotdogs when she got back.  When she finally found them at Walmart, she bought all that were in the store.  It turned out that she bought 112 hotdogs.  I quickly calculated how many hotdogs she would have to eat per day to eat all those hotdogs over the winter.  I figured out that we would be taking hotdogs back to Canada with us in the Spring.

Taylorizing It

One of Barb’s quilting friends came over to see us and welcome us to Florida.  She came in to our house and looked at Barb’s work.  She said that when she was back in Nova Scotia with her quilting friends she talked about her friend in Florida who was a perfectionist.  She said her Florida friend was always ripping out her work to fix things if it wasn't exactly right.  She told her friends in Nova Scotia when she was fixing her quilts she was Taylorizing it.

Lady’s Router Problem

One morning I was sitting on the porch and Barb was out shopping.  Two ladies came up to the door.  I thought they wanted to see Barb but they said they were looking for someone who knew something about computers to help with one of the ladies’ computers.  I said I could try to help them.

So we walked over to their house.  They set up their two laptops in the porch on a desk beside each other.  They were both old Vista laptops.  One of the computers worked and the other didn’t.  The ladies said that they had been on the phone with the Internet Service Provider for two hours that morning.  The person on the phone couldn’t help them but said there was some problem with the IP address.

I spent six hours working on the problem to find out what was wrong with the IP address.  The computer that wasn’t working said it was connected to a router but when we tried to look something up on the web it came up with the message “Page Not Found”.  It was not connected to the same router as the computer that was working.  I found the router in the bedroom that the working computer was hooked up to and when I tried to hook up the other computer to it I just got an error message.

I spent hours looking up things on the internet on one computer and trying out fixes of the IP address on the other computer.

I was about to give up.  I was very hungry because I hadn’t had any lunch and it was almost dinner time.  I decided to try just one more thing.  I typed the error message for the router into Google and it suggested that I uninstall the wireless card and reinstall it.

So I uninstalled the wireless card.  Then I turned off the computer and turned it back on again.  The computer automatically found the wireless card and reinstalled it.  Then I could see the router with no error message and was able to hook up the internet.

The two ladies and their husbands were relaxing outside drinking wine and eating cheese and crackers.  I sat with them and gobbled down some food.  Then Barb drove up in our golf cart and joined us.  The lady with the fixed computer was so happy.  She had sat with me the whole time and she was impressed at how I could work for so long on the broken computer and never get upset and swear.  It was a good thing because I found out later that she was a very religious lady.

She asked how she could pay me back.  I said that she could pay me back in Diet Pepsi.  The next day she and her husband came back with a carton of 36 Diet Pepsi.

Barb’s First E-book

Barb follows the Pickleball Guru’s Blog on the internet.  She was excited because he was publishing a strategy e-book and for the first day it was on sale on Amazon for 99 cents.  She was able to read the first chapter for free.  She thought it was good.  So I bought the book for her.  It came as a Kindle e-book.  So we had to download the Kindle e-book reader software for our computers.  But we couldn’t put the Kindle formatted e-book on my e-book reader.  Amazon is hoping to monopolize the e-book market by making everyone buy Kindle readers to read their e-books.  Fortunately, I found an e-book reader package that could convert Kindle format e-books to Epub format which is the standard for most e-book readers.  Barb was then able to read her Pickleball book on my e-reader.  She had never used it before and thought it was pretty cool.

Forgot Something

One night, Barb couldn’t sleep because of my loud snoring.  She thought my CPAP was mask wasn’t on properly.  So she checked it on my face.  She noticed there was no air flowing through it.  She then realized that I had forgotten to turn it on.  She got up and turned on the CPAP.  Then she and I were able to get a good night’s sleep.

Peter’s Question

It was not long after we arrived in Florida that Barb started meeting old friends when she was out and about.  One day, she met Peter and Kimberly at Walmart.  Barb asked them how they were doing and how their summer had been.  They asked Barb how she was doing and how her summer had been.

Then to be polite Peter asked Barb how is Ivan.  Then he thought for a while and said, “Is Ivan still tall?”