Non-sticky table
We moved into our new home and two of the first things Allison bought were no-stick cooking spray and Endust wood cleaner. Then she proceeded to clean our whole dining room table with no-stick cooking spray. It came out very shiny and non-sticky. (I think it was our friend Deb, …
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Very formal district meeting
I woke up in Baltimore today and was getting dressed for a meeting at a school district when I realized the shirt I was putting on required cufflinks, which I neither had nor found appropriate. (luckily my preference for over-packing once again came to the rescue).
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Early Dementia?
The garage door person was coming over to give us an estimate, so I went to get my car keys to move my car across the street before he came over. It took me walking a couple of rooms to get the car keys. Then I got the keys, went …
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Would you like your clothes back?
After I pay at the drycleaners and I turn around to leave the store, every time they have to call me back to pick up the drycleaning I just paid for… Does that happen to others?
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Magic in the gas tank
Oops. I never let this happen, but today my fuel tank got kind of low… …12.355 gallons low… …in a 12.3 gallon tank…
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announcing cash
“I feel uncomfortable carrying all this cash around” is what Allison announced to the streets, with people walking around her, when we were coming out of the bank… (then she realized she shouldn’t have said that). (she had just taken out a few hundred dollars for her trip to Belize…) …
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decommissioned scissors
I’m not even going to try to explain why we’re going to be short a pair of scissors this week following a mistake I made in the order of events while prototyping (I mistakenly left the fishing line through the scissors handle, if that makes any sense). Sorry Al.
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Water problems
I found myself in the security line at the airport holding a water bottle in my hand. I was surprised by this because I thought I had decided on the other water bottle and packed it in my suitcase. Lo and behold, yes. I am very well prepared for a …
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TSA roll
I was at SFO (airport) about to go through security. I took my computer out and put it in a bin, put my shoes and belt out, and in a bin, and made small talk with the security agent, who was very nice. After I completed putting everything in the …
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business lunch double combo
Today, I left the house for a business lunch. After I locked the front door and was on my way to my car, I wondered whether the dog was in the house, so I came back in the house, and lo and behold, she was out on the deck, sunbathing. …
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