Once upon a time, our friend, Anne Roberts, attended a conference. For coming the farthest distance to get to the conference, she got a door-prize. Which she thought was nice but also had no interest in; an Amazon Echo Dot (3rd gen). “The hockey puck” She, in turn, gifted it to us. And I promised…
Author: Michael
Fun with your Mail Delivery System
I’ve been noticing a lot of “Mail Delivery System” emails that are “returning to sender”. Nothing new. I know that they’re just spam. But I got curious if they were all the same spam. And it turns out, they’re all different, but more alike than not. First, just a quick note. These are all in…
I never should have said it.
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…