Laura and I drove down to Penticton for a family picnic with my aunt and uncle from Edmonton who are, apparently, moving to Penticton next year. So that’s cool.
…so I try and see how fast I can shake them off without being rude and simply hanging up on them.
So far the two best tactics for me have been:
1. I’m a student with no money (this works most of the time)
2. I just lost my job (also works most of the time)
The banks are the worst for foiling these approaches. They have all the reasons why my lack of money shouldn’t stop me from purchasing new services. Oh, they just have all the answers, don’t they?
1MM members = 1 millimeter people. wait, what? are they talking about vertically challenged members?
how embarrassing.
Laura went to Wal-Mart to pick up a fan for us today. A lot of the time at night, it’s not hot enough to warrant air conditioning but it’s still a bit warmer than is comfortable for sleeping. We figured a fan will help.
As I understand it, Laura’s standing in front of the big shelf full of fans while beside her, a young boy and his mother are also looking at fans. Only, the boy knows which fan he wants. He wants the super-deluxe fan with 3 speeds, 3 breeze settings, sleep timer that you can set up to 7.5 hours (in 30 min increments) and a remote control. He’s trying his hardest to convince her of its virtues but his mother wasn’t buying it - insisting that he really didn’t need such a thing.
Watching how much this kid wants this fan, Laura thinks to herself, “Wow, if that kid is excited about this fan, I bet Jerome would be, too.” So that is the one she bought.
And it is awesome.
Two interesting things to note. First, the breeze settings. Normal is about what you would expect: The fan blows at whatever speed (high, medium, low) you set it to. The other two modes are… weird. When enabled, the fan automatically (and randomly) changes fan speed. So instead of a constant breeze it’s more random, I guess like a natural breeze. It’s weird to see and hear it changing speeds constantly. There are two of these special breeze modes, but I can’t really tell the difference between them. So in essence, there are two breeze settings: normal and fucked-up.
Second point of interest is that the button to change modes on the remote control also apparently turns on my iHome and starts my iPod playing. Rather unexpected. I’ve heard of remote control conflicts before but having so many devices that I have a conflict in my bedroom? Clearly, I am awesome.
Since we moved here, Laura hasn’t been able to find a dance studio she really likes. In the mean time, she’s been going to one that’s alright but not great.
Tonight was their big performance show and many of the groups weren’t synchronized with each other and seemed to rely on watching others to know what they were doing. Laura’s class, thankfully, all seemed confident in what they were doing.
So it was pretty cheesy in parts but still somewhat entertaining for its duration. In particular, the costume malfunction where one of the twenty girls dancing with foam baseball bats had her bat fall apart at the very beginning and had to pretend to lean on it and find other creative ways of faking her motions for the duration of her routine.
My father’s a big fan of picnics so guess what we did for Patriarch Day?
At least the park had a beach where we could play…
