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.
Austin, admiring the ankle socks at MeUndies: But if I got ankle socks that match my underwear, I’d feel obligated to wear the matching socks when I wear the underwear.
Me: That’s how I feel about my dinosaur footies.
Austin: Our whole underwear routine is already overly complicated.
Me: We have too much underwear and the underwear that doesn’t match doesn’t get worn enough. And really, underwear should be thrown out after a year of wear. Bacteria builds up in that area, makes it unsanitary.
Austin: That’s not true. I’ve had all kinds of underwear that’s lasted longer than a year and there’s no microbes or weird bacteria growing. Everything down there is normal.
Me, not saying anything.
Austin: Wow, the look on your face! That’s a ‘I spend time down there’ kind of face. (Singing the much loved Christmas carol) Do you see what I see?
Me on FB: Oh my God, I can’t believe FB has an ad for this. I get jailed for jokes because FB is stupid, but it’s posting vibrators in their ad section.
Austin takes my iPad.
The Amazon pic.
Austin and I have been married long enough that we no longer feel the 10 year age gap between us, but every once in a while something like this happens.
Austin: I don’t know who that top group is.
Austin and I were about to flip the radio station when the DJ said: Astrologists are predicting the Kansas City Chiefs win tonight.
Austin made some grumbly, growling noises. He thinks astrology is mumbo jumbo. And made some remarks.
Me: Astrology, real astrology, is complicated and when you know all the layers, there’s actually something to it.
Austin: Mumbo-jumbo, ya da ya da, garbage.
Me: We’ll just see tonight when Kansas City wins.
