I didn’t realize it until two days later but I never should have said it. It was innocent enough. Just an off-handed comment. You’d think after 24 years our relationship could stand it. But, no. I took a block of frozen pork out of the freezer and said, “This freezer really works well”. One simple…
Hear Ye, Hear Ye
I asked, as I always do, what, if anything, Thea wanted for her birthday. This year, she wanted our hearing checked. She had had an acoustic episode working at home that had left her with some issues. As she described it, she was working away when she noticed in the space of a few minutes…
Jury Duty-less
I received my summons in the mail. It’s the third time in my adult life of forty-one years that I’ve been called to report for jury duty. The summons had several pieces of information on it. I went online and acknowledged my receipt of it. I’m not sure why this was supposed to be a…
Puzzling
Some of my earliest memories are about puzzling. In the third grade, we were assigned the art project of making an animal using nothing but those loose felt squares of varying colors, a pair of scissors and glue. All the other students made a cut out the outline of, for example, a horse, and put…
Jab 3: the sequel’s sequel
We are doing our part to keep everyone safe. Yesterday we got our Covid-19 Booster. This is the first time that I’ve had any sort of reaction to a vaccine. It’s just injection site soreness. But it counts as a reaction.
Making Faces
There’s an additional feature that I rediscovered that I had been missing since my ZenWatch went down. Unique watch faces. The Versa did have a few dozen templates that it could show off. It gave you the opportunity to customize. But you weren’t able to really personalize it except by adding an image to the…