Surprisingly busy Thursday

I had an unusual morning. I had three errands to do, and managed to do all of them in record time, without delays - something new and different. I got a stencil and a couple of stamps at Hobby Lobby, and went to sign up for the next set of acrylic painting classes.

The most surprising errand and the one that will cause some difficulty was to the cell-phone store. John wants to drop his service and get a “loadable” phone. The amazing part was walking into the store and getting service immediately. The difficulty that John’s phone is the one with the contract, not mine. So to avoid penalties, I’ll be switching to John’s phone number, and he’ll be getting a new one. All this will take effect on 5 October (at the end of our billing cycle), so I’ll let everybody know the new numbers when the changeover happens.

We went to the home of one of John’s rowing friends to play bridge this afternoon. They're very much beginners, and we knew we would be going to try to help them learn more. Very nice folks, and an interesting, fun afternoon. They're taking lessons, but in duplicate. I hope we didn't confuse them too much - since we don't play duplicate and couldn't help them with some of the duplicate conventions and bidding. And they didn't always understand what we were telling them about rubber bridge. Oh, well - it was a nice afternoon. We wound up playing until 5:30, so we stopped at a store-front Asian fusion type eatery on our way home. Had a good meal, and so generous that our carry-out will be tomorrow's dinner.
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Who could resist these little hams?