On my evening walk, my community watch friend drove up and stopped to talk to me. I asked him if he had any new jokes. He asked me if I had heard the skeleton who walked into the bar and asked for a beer and a mop. Then, when I stopped laughing, he asked me if I knew why ponies can't sing. I said I didn't. And he said it was because they were a little horse.
I tell my mentees that every policy has an intended and one or more unintended consequences. Mom and I experienced that today. I was out on the patio working at 5 pm, and the sun was shining on me, making me and my computer very hot. Barb came to see me after pickleball, and I told her I was getting hot. Barb is always a problem solver. So she said I should move the table back into the shade. So, together, we moved the table, and it was much cooler. The next day, I set up my computer on the patio for my first-morning meeting, and I couldn't get my computer to hook up to the Wi-Fi. So I rushed into the house, turned on my office computer, and had all my meetings that day there. I thought something was wrong with my laptop and searched online for a solution, but none worked. My computer worked fine in the bedroom but not on the patio. So, on my walk that night, I realized that the problem started when we moved the table. So I moved the table closer to the back of the house, and the computer Wi-Fi worked again. So, moving the table had the intended consequence of getting me out of the sun but the unintended consequence of getting me out of the Wi-Fi range.
I keep my cell phone in one pocket and the Bluetooth earbuds in the pocket with my wallet. The earbuds case regularly falls out of my pocket when I lean back in my chair. I was working out on the patio today, and my earbuds case fell out of my pocket. So I reached down and picked it up. Later in the bedroom, I wanted to play music on my cellphone. But I couldn't get any sound to come out. First, I said to myself I must have Do Not Disturb on. But I didn't. Then I told myself that if the earbud case battery is low, the sound comes out of the earbuds in the case, which is different because they usually come on after you take them out and connect to Bluetooth. So, I opened my earbud case and found only one earbud in the case. So I started to search the house for the other earbud. Sometimes, I only wear one earbud and take it out in the office or around the house. I searched and searched and couldn't find it. Then I remembered my case falling out of my pocket on the patio. So, I went out on the patio in my pyjamas and heard a faint sound of music. The earbud was behind my chair. I guess when the case fell out of my pocket, the case opened, and one of the earbuds shot out.
