Happy Matchmaker

We decided to go the New Year’s Eve dance.  Barb went down to Monday Bingo to buy tickets on the first day that they went on sale and found they were all sold out by the time she got there.  She was told to post on Facebook that she was looking for tickets.

The day before New Year’s Eve someone posted on Facebook that they couldn’t go to the dance and were selling their tickets.  So Barb arranged to buy their tickets.  In fact, the lady said that they had reserved a whole table and all of the people at the table were sick and wouldn’t be going.

So we went to the dance and sat with table of strangers.  We met a nice older lady, who wanted to dance but didn’t have anyone to dance with.  So Barb asked her friend Ron Hines, who was recently widowed, if he would dance with her.  And he did. I even saw him give her his card.  Barb was a happy matchmaker.

Late Christmas Present for Daphne

I often go to the pool after my softball game.  I bring my iPod and hook into the office wifi to read my email.

One day, I went down to the pool with Sarah. We went swimming for about a half an hour. Then when we got out and were towelling off, I noticed that I had had my iPod in the pocket of my swimming trunks the whole time we were in the pool.  I was very upset but I knew not to turn on the iPod.  I knew I would have to let it dry out and even then it might not work again.

Fortunately, I had a backup iPod but the menu button on the backup was broken.  Sarah came to the rescue and put a virtual button on the touch screen for me.  It worked fine but I was always pushing the broken menu button instead of the virtual button and wondering why it wasn’t working.

We put my waterlogged iPod in a bag of rice because we heard that that sometimes works to dry out a wet iPod.  We waited for a week and tried it out but it didn’t work.  So we put it back in the rice bag and waited another week.

Finally, we gave it one more try I turned the iPod on and it worked but there was some water damage on the screen.  After a few days, even the water damage on the screen dried out and the iPod was as good as ever.

By this time, Barb had bought me a new iPod on eBay.  She originally bought it because the battery on my old iPod was so bad.  It couldn’t even hold a charge for a day.

So now, I had three iPods, my new one, my old one with the bad battery and the one with the broken menu button.  Daphne had been hoping to get a camera for Christmas but she didn’t get one.  So I gave her my dried out iPod with the bad battery and told her she would need to charge it every night.  She was happy about it and now enjoys texting and reading email and Facetime and taking pictures with it.

Not Good at Selfies

On the spur of the moment, Steve Woodward from Barrhaven emailed Barb and told us that he and his wife would be travelling from Orlando to Fort Lauderdale and would like to drop in to see us.

They arrived in the afternoon of New Year’s Eve and we showed them around the house and had a nice chat.  Then we drove them around the park on our neighbour’s golf cart.  Then we said goodbye and they left.

Afterwards, Barb thought how neat it would have been to have taken a selfie with them and posted it on Facebook.  I guess we are just not selfie thinking people.

Avoiding an Accident

When we dropped Laura off at the airport, we went to Costco in Orlando.  We had dinner before we went shopping and they give you unlimited refills for your drinks.  So when we were going through the check out, I went and filled our drink glass again.  I came back to help Barb with the bags and put my full cup of Pepsi on the counter where the groceries were.  Then I lifted the bag of groceries right over the glass and put it in the cart.  It was a heavy bag and I had to lift it quite high to get it over the glass with the straw sticking out.  Later, I thought how lucky I was that I noticed the glass was there.  I could have knocked the glass over with the grocery bag and spilt the Pepsi all over the counter where the groceries go.  The workers would have been furious at me, not to mention all the people waiting in the check out line as they would have had to wait until we cleaned it all up.

Touchpad

Every Monday night, I Skype with Stan.  I was Skyping with him and I was telling him about my Christmas presents.  I told him the story about Sarah using my computer and getting frustrated with my mouse because it was unresponsive.  I told Stan that she bought me a new mouse for Christmas and now I can use my computer a lot better.

I told him that my touchpad on my computer never worked.  He said that there is an alt-key combination to toggle the touchpad on and off.  I tried it and it worked great.  All this time, I thought the touchpad was broken but I had just never turned it on.

Barb Pulls an Edwina

Barb and Sarah had problems figuring out the front and rear burners on the stove.  Over the holidays, they both put on a wrong burner and burned one of the nice covers for the burners.  So Barb decided to throw the covers out.

A few days later, I filled a cup of coffee for Barb while she was out at knitting and placed it on the stove.  While I was doing the dishes, I leaned against the stove and the cup fell over. The full cup of coffee went down the burners on the stove and I had to take the burners out and spent about a half hour mopping the coffee out with a dish cloth.

When Barb came home, I told her and she replied at least it wasn’t down the side of the stove.  I told her that she just pulled an Edwina looking on the bright side.

Barb Directing Traffic

We go to the beach on Santa Maria Island on Christmas Day with Daphne and Truman.  When we got there, we found Truman and neither he nor I could find a parking space.  Fortunately, Barb is an expert at crowded parking lots because she shops at Costco all the time.  So Barb found a spot for our car by waiting for someone who was leaving.  Then she got out and directed traffic so that she could find a spot beside us for Truman.