Austin: I'm having this pressure on my knees. It reminds me of mom talking about liquid building up on her knees and having to get it drained. Getting old sucks.
Me: The alternative is death.
Austin: Then I'll die.
Me: You're not allowed to die until I do.
Austin: You can't tell me what to do.
Me: Oh, can't I?
Watching an old episode of Call the Midwife. The nun explaining why dogs can go to Heaven.
Austin: Catholics don't believe dogs go to Heaven.
Me: Not by the letter of the Bible. The Bible says that only creatures with souls go to Heaven. That's why it's okay to eat animals, because they don't have souls.
Austin: By that definition, cannibals just have to prove that the person they ate didn't have a soul.
Me: I'm trying to drink the last of this milk tea so we have room in the cupboard for the vitamins again.
Austin: But we'll get more milk tea and hot chocolate.
This is a long one to finally get to the punch.
Austin has been talking about getting an Apple TV for months. Because his friend, who works for Apple, has one. Austin frequently get product envy with his friends. They got a new deck, so he wants to put in a new deck. Which will cost above $10,000. So maybe someday in the distant future…
I have been steadily selling Mom’s DVD collection through Ebay, making an extra dollar or two.
Anyway, for months, there has been nothing wrong with the Fire Stick, just things like this app that started out free wants to charge now and mirroring difficulty, that app not working.
Austin: Try shutting down and restarting
Which worked once.
Austin: Deleting the app and re-adding.
It’s an Amazon app. It can’t be deleted and re-added.
Austin: Try resetting the Fire Stick.
The Fire Stick just goes into a loop. I can’t add apps, I can get back to the apps that were on there, it just says to press (->) to start, loops through the language, then asks me to press (->) again, over and over…
Me, groaning: I think we need a new Fire Stick.
Austin: I want an Apple TV.
Groaning and moaning, fine.
Austin takes his first break, yackety-yack-yack-yack, Apple TV how-to videos, Apple TV costs this much, will be here Wednesday.
Austin takes second break, yackety-yack-yack-yack, HDMI cable to hook into TV, price points from $10 to $70, does half a hundred different things, depending on your needs, not sure which one to get.
Austin, after work, while making dinner, picked specific HDMI cable. Will be here on Thursday.
Me: Do you want to watch Murder, She Wrote on DVD?
Austin: Why don’t you just turn on the Fire Stick?
Me: I don’t know why we’re keeping this flipper. It really has had it.
Austin: I’m not the one who wanted to keep it. When you showed it to me a couple of years ago, I wanted to throw it out. But you had some really convoluted reason for keeping it and it gave me a chance to exercise the muscles in my face so I wouldn’t roll my eyes.
