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Hey today was a great day. I got up and got Jack off to school and met with the guys in the backyard to find the water leak. I believe we have found rare earth metals. Then it was upstairs to watch the tumult (Romney used that word seven times tonight. I don't personally like it.) in the market.
Then I announced to Devin, "I am going to the movies." I really did. I waited for a reaction and all I got was "OK". It was a little anti-climatic. I guess she was still riding high from her one loss this week football pool.
Anyhow after taking acre of about 3 hours of business at my desk (almost interrupted) I raced off to the theater as I wanted to see Taken 2, while it was in the theaters. It is not Devin's type of movie. Not enough fluffy bunnies, romantic fireplace scenes, and running in the waves. So I went alone.
It was not as good as the first one, but pretty good. A bit predicable as every time Liam Neeson left his wife or daughter alone they would get taken. Dude, just bring them with you every time you get the bad guys. No brainer.
It was nice getting away from the minutia cesspool for a while. Then it was back to reality and picking up Jack. Then I thought I would do something cool and return a couple of items that Devin had order on line but not had gotten around to sending back to the supplier.
There were two items. One of them was in a box. When I got to the UPS store and filled out the paperwork, I realized one of the was a sealed box with no address. That made it a tad hard to return. Randy at the UPS store and I opened the box and got the return address. That was fun.
Then it was a couple more chores. While running around I realized how cell phones have changed out lives. I don't know about you, but do most of your conversations now begin with, "Sorry, I was just getting the mail and the phone was still in my car." And then the other person says, "Well, that's Ok it was not really important."
Or when you are on the phone and some one rings in you automatically begin your return call with an apology for not answering. It usually goes something like this, "Oh sorry, I saw you buzz in but I was on the phone with some one I like more or is more important than you."
Then we have those special calls for just our significant others. They usually go something like this. "Why didn't you pick up? I called 6 times in nine seconds and you didn't pick up?" And your reply might be, "God, I'm sorry! What is wrong." And the reply might be, "Nothing, but you should keep your phone where you can hear it."
Or, the call begins with, "Where are you?" and once you announce your 20 (cop talk for location) the answer is, "Oh, never mind." Now guys, I can tell you "Never Mind", NEVER means, "Never Mind". You need to immediately start guessing where you were supposed to be at that moment. Here is how you do this one. (remember I got to watch pro football all day long Sunday, so I am good.)
You answer your cell phone and the other party to which you are speaking asks, "Where are you?" Pick the most general description of where you are. "I am in my car." "Oh can you go to the grocery store?" See. How good was that?
Now the beauty of saying, "I'm in my car." Is that one day your sig other will call and you will be in the grocery store when you say you are in your car. Then you can get the grocery and be home exceedingly fast and really make them wonder how you did it.
If you answer, "I am at the grocery store." They will want to know why you were at the grocery store. You gotta love cell phones.
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Since 10/10/2012
