Cold Coffee

Today I gave Barb a cold cup of coffee.  We often make more coffee than we drink and then leave it for later. Then we heat a cup up in the microwave.  I poured a cup for Barb and then put it in the microwave but forgot to turn on the microwave.  Later I remembered I put the coffee in the microwave and I took it out but never checked to see that it was hot.  Like why would I need to check.  It is always hot when I take it out of the microwave.

Library

I renewed my library card today and I told Barb that she was going to love her new library card and she has.  She likes to read ebooks and one of her pickleball friends told her about this Canadian mystery writers she likes.  So Barb wanted to check her out.  I found a number of ebooks by the author but they started at book 4 in the series.  Barb's friend told her that she really needed to read them from the beginning.  So I ordered the paper copies of the first three books in the series from the library and Barb is reading paper books for a change.  She had to go out and buy sticky notes at the Dollar Store to use as bookmarks because when she reads at bedtime she falls asleep and would lose her page without the sticky notes on the page she is reading.

Confusion

Laura was making plans for Christmas.  I thought Laura was arriving on the 22nd when I told Barb to write it on the calendar.  Barb knew there was something wrong with that if she was arriving at 5:05 am.  Then I realized that she was leaving on the 22nd and arriving on the 23rd at 5:05 am.

Pillbox Again

Barb filled up her pillbox with vitamins tonight.  She was carrying the pillbox back to the counter from the breakfast nook on top of the bigger box that contains all her bottles and the pillbox fell off and dropped on the hardwood floor.  It opened and all the pills spilled out and bounced all over.  It took her a long time to find them all again especially her little black peppers.

FRAWESS

Laura and I were listening to the Hard Drive on Live 88.5 one Saturday night, her in Vancouver and me in Florida, and were messaging each other.  Laura was commenting on DJ Noah's transitions and wrote ITA FRAWLESS.  I wrote back Ita Frawess?  She replied that she meant to say it's flawless.  I guess spell check doesn't check capital letters.

Beans

Barb occasionally makes wieners and beans for dinner.  Today, Barb opened two cans of beans and emptied them into the pan.  Then she noticed that one can was kidney beans and the other can was pinto beans.  There are so many different cans of beans in the grocery stores here that it was an honest mistake.  Barb likes a special kind of brown beans made by one company.  When she found the beans made by that company, she just bought two cans.

Chess

I was following the World Chess Championship every day on the internet and got enthused about playing chess.  So I went to the library and got out a couple of chess books.  One of the books had quizzes at the end of each chapter where you could rate yourself.  I got all the questions right in the first quiz and it said that I could be clearly confident that I am starting my chess career.  The quiz at the end of the second chapter was not as easy.  I found it hard to solve the problems in my head.  So I thought I could buy a chess board and try to solve the quiz in real life.  Then one night I was playing my computer chess game on my iPad (which I won) and I found that it had a mode for setting up the board for puzzles.  I didn't even need a chess board.  I could do the quiz on the iPad.  I never did though.  I thought there was too much concentration required.  Maybe if I had bought a real chess board I would have followed through on the plan.