Category: In Which We Mock Our Husband

Conveniently, all my major marriage celebrations take place on minor holidays,. The calendar reminds me it’s Flag Day, so that’s my anniversary, or it’s the first day of Spring, which is on or about Gary’s birthday. He is not particular about his exact birthday, because as you know, we celebrate the Birthday Month. (During the…

Me: “Gary, have you seen a raw potato around here? I put on the counter half an hour ago.” Gary (half-asleep in reclining chair): “Huh? Potato?” Me: “I lost a potato somehow. I looked in the garage and the pantry. Let me try the laundry room.” (Moments later) “Well, I got a new potato out…

I imagine Gary has made this joke before, given that he initially blames all ills on “the change in the weather,” and now that he is old enough for aches and pains. Even so, I did laugh heartily last night when he called himself The Garometer.

Sure, and this would ha’ been a review of The Banshees of Inisherin so, but we couldn’t get past the first feckin’ twenty minutes. Twenty minutes in the characters have mainly all been established as charming, and your sympathies are with Colin Farrell, and then the conflict is established (man is too dull for other…

Gary was very sad that only one bot contacted him, and it told him he needed to call the two dealers he had selected online. He complained to me that the dealers knew he was old, and that’s why they weren’t calling him and looking for his electric car business. It was pitiful. I puffed…

Gary has gone back to his first love, the Chevy Bolt. (New for this final year with fewer car fires.) And now that he has embraced ordering a car on-line, he called me over so that we could place the order “together.” All that meant was that he asked if the seat color was acceptable.…

So, finally: progress! Gary acknowledged that it would be better to order a car and have it built rather than rely on the scant electric vehicles dealers keep in their lots. He keeps finding great cars that are gone the next day, and he suspects it’s all a come-on. So his new plan was to…

What did I tell you? Gary is back to square one in the car hunt. He found a seven page list of nothing but electric vehicles. So here we go again. I’ve given up mentioning the government tax debate; they made that way too complicated, and all the rules change in March anyway. And now…

Oh my gaaawwwd the car search. This has been worse than the search for the Fit. We test drove Hummers and Zs and every car made before his research led us to the Fit. We can’t test drive these electric cars, because You Kids Today like to order your cars from Amazon or something, plus…

Recently Gary went to the NP at the neurologist’s office to see if he can get some relief with his migraine. He came back and reported: There has a been a 50% increase in daily cases the last week. I think he intends to have a telemedicine visit with the NP in a few weeks,…