Weekend at Home

We spent the weekend hanging around at home for a change.  We started off with cocktails on the porch (cosmos, in case you are curious) and chatting about the week along with a little people watching of our neighbors and the random strangers walking down our street.  Then to get the weekend going right, we had a couple of slices of Papa Del's pizza.  After all that, we thought a walk would be in order to try to limit feeling bad about consuming around a 1,000 calories of pizza.  On our way back our neighbors across the street invited us over to watch a movie with them - Mother's Day - which was a fun way to cap off our Friday evening.

Saturday it was off to the Apple store to replace our laptop which had a hard drive failure this week.  We opted to move back to the Apple world after spending 25 years on PC's.  It has taken some getting used to as nothing is in the same spot (for instance, Apple decided to put the icons to close an application in the upper left hand corner instead of Windows using the upper right hand - really, seriously, these two behemoths couldn't agree to use the same corner???).  Of course, with any change like this you find out all sort of other interesting things - like our wireless router no longer accepts any new devices for some unknown reason.  So I'm off to find a new wireless router after multiple attempts to fix the current one.

Later that afternoon, it was time for our annual eye check-ups where I finally decided it was time for bifocals.  My distance vision has declined and I was tired of always having to rely on Jo to read distant street signs.  I'm not happy about this latest change in my vision - but I'm doing it, grudgingly (very grudgingly).  On a side note, we had no idea that lenses were so frigging expensive.  My condolences to all of you who have had to wear glasses for years.

Sunday, we biked over to the Brewer's stadium for a baseball game on a bright, sunshiny day.  Northwestern Mutual had an employee appreciation day and provided free tickets.  So we munched on some burgers and watched the Brewer's lose another game - been kind of a theme for them this year.  But it was a beautiful day and we had a nice bike ride.