1. When Patrick was here over the weekend, having realized that the speakers he and Debbie purchased back in November wouldn't work for the keyboard set up he created for Debbie, they were going to take the speakers back to Best Buy and try to get a refund.
At first, I thought (maybe said), don't bother. I'm sure we can find someone to give them away to.
Then a second idea slowly surfaced in my thick as Heinz ketchup brain.
"Might those speakers work with our television?"
Patrick lit up.
"Let me check the back of your tv."
He did.
"Yes! They'll work and you'll also have Bluetooth available."
We didn't work on hooking up the speakers while Patrick was here.
I took on the task today.
I learned a lot about fiber cables, RCA cables, the speaker set's input light, how to change the input into the speakers, and a variety of other things and, after about three hours of YouTube videos, consulting the user manual online, and a couple text exchanges with Patrick, I emerged from the dark depths of my ignorance, saw the light, and now the speakers (and its remote) are working.
I can listen to audio from my cell phone and my laptop through these speakers now.
The sound coming out of the television is now awesomely improved.
Yes. It took me quite a while to figure everything out.
But, I did it.
My patience never wavered.
I felt like the problem solvers in Houston in the movie Apollo 13, working the problem, figuring things out. I didn't bring astronauts from the brink of death back home again (!), but I figured out how to do something I'd never done before.
2. Debbie stopped in for a terrific visit at The Lounge after work and I wasn't quite sure when she'd arrive home -- no problem.
I imagined what I might do to make a quick dinner once she arrived and figured, correctly, that I could make a quick, nutritious, and delicious meal just using the electric frying pan.
I took out the boneless pork chops we had in the fridge so they could warm up to room temperature.
I sliced a half a red onion, a half a red pepper, a small yellow squash, and got out some leftover pieces of potato from our store of leftovers and some sliced mushrooms I had on hand.
I covered the pork chops with panko bread crumbs and seasoned the meat with umami, pepper, and garlic powder. I put leftover panko bread crumbs on the vegetables.
I fried everything in the electric skillet.
It was ready to eat fairly soon and we both were very happy with how tasty this simple meal turned out to be.
(I sliced an apple, and ate the slices raw, to go with my mess of vegetables and pork chop.)
3. Today I posted my 9th "life is good"image on Facebook. It's a Joy Project.
I felt life was really good every time I rocketed down the Baltimore Washington Parkway, entered Northeast Washington DC, and made my way to the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens.
The picture I posted today brings me joy because I discovered I loved taking pictures of turtles and in this picture I tried to portray the turtle as a small circle within the huge circle of the lily pad the turtle sunned on. Yes, looking back, I wish, if I could have, I'd taken a couple steps back and included the whole of the lily pad in the frame, but I'm happy enough to have established the circle pattern with the turtle and the turtle's resting place.
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