Category: In Which We Mock Our Husband

Gary’s car search has come at a bad time, because it has been a month after Dave died and I had already re-earmarked the money I set aside for Dave into long-delayed home improvement projects. The back door. Do you know they make exterior doors out of fiberglass now, so they don’t rust and rot?…

Last Friday I arranged work so that Gary and I could go buy the car Gary has finally decided on: a Chevy Bolt. (Not a Volt, Volts were an embarrassment, caught fire, etc..) Another all-electric, but this one has better range. These were his conditions: The Chevy Bolt sounded perfect. He found a great deal.…

Sometimes I leave the Favorite Wig, Chimera 2.o, in the bathroom, where it startles Gary. He complained about it one too many times.

I vaguely remember blogging about Gary’s experience with the crash of Ozark flight 809, but I can’t find it. I apologize if I am telling you this story as if you haven’t heard it before. It comes up because last week Gary told me the story as if I hadn’t heard it before. The first…

At night when the house is silent, the fan on Gary’s new laptop roars like a typhoon. I let Gary know. I don’t think he listened to the laptop before purchasing an extra cooling fan for the laptop to sit on. I know he didn’t look at the image of the fan on Amazon. Or…

The Packet The next day we were setting up the two televisions to use AT&T’s facsimile of live TV, and when we ran into a hitch Gary said, “WELL WHAT’S IT SAY IN THE PACKET?” “Packet?” “THE PACKET. THERE’S GOT TO BE A QUICK START BROCHURE IN THE PACKET.” “No packet, babe.” “WHY DID YOU…

It didn’t worry me when Gary’s hair turned grey. Older men are hot. I was fine when he started losing his hair. Happens to all of us. However, just this last week he has exhibited two signs of aging that have concerned me. Scam Panic Because we’re changing our email, Gary is getting a lot…

So, a few days ago I was working and I heard Gary scream. Like a mother with a toddler, I know the different screams and what they mean, and this was a scream of horror. I thought he was listening to a scary movie, so I ignored it, until it was followed by multiple short…

As part of the switch to fiber optic internet, all our TV will now be a little less live, because it will all be streamed, and as such we need a streaming device like a Firebox, or a Roku. There’s a Firebox on Gary’s TV already, in preparation for this transition. I said to Gary,…

Gary briefly turned against the new tennis racket bug zappers. They make a zap noise but don’t cause any flies to drop out of the air. I don’t know if the fly explodes into atoms, or is re-energized and files off stronger. After he turned against the rackets, Gary bought some heavy artillery: a Bug-A-salt…