“My frontier woman!” exclaimed Axel when he came down this morning and saw me stoking a good fire while a snowstorm was raging outside. I had a squirrel pie in the oven, trapped it myself! Actually I don’t like squirrels and prefer pumpkin pie; but what else can you do with such abundance?
This morning is admin morning and so Axel is in charge. Admin is his job in our household. It is not much of a frontier job; rather tedious. There is the refinancing, the upcoming taxes and insurance stuff. Life is so very complicated. The days of squirrel trapping are long gone.
I am happy to announce that I finally won from my sister on WordFeud, in Spanish no less. We are returning to an English board for our next game. Playing in a language you don’t know is rather time consuming. Half of the words I laid out were guesses. Even the Spanish-English dictionary didn’t know them but the WordFeud app accepted the word.
Although I enjoy the intercontinental scrabble games, smartphones have complicated our lives and driven up our phone budget. I called T-Mobile this morning and got a nice lady on the phone to explain to me whether I can play WordFeud when in Japan without incurring enormous charges. We try to understand how the charges work. I am sure that is part of T-Mobile’s strategy: complicate things for the customer so they give up trying to understand and blissfully ignorant rake up enormous charges doing stupid things like playing scrabble on line.
We have to be so informed and conscious of things all the time. It’s a job all by itself to untangle the webs our wallets get caught in.
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