“Matrimony… the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Casamiento Segundo, its until-death-do-us-part mission… to explore a strange new relationship… to seek out a new life and new adventures… to boldly go where no sane couple has gone before.”
I am a little worried about Señora.
Let me set the stage. We have an Internet connected Smart Thermostat. It has a sensor downstairs and a sensor upstairs. Remembering that hot air raises and cold air falls, playing with the opening and closing of vents on the various levels of our abode, I can keep the temperature more or less even on all floors. The thermostat functionality is based on averaging the temperature at the sensors together.
As a balance between comfort and pocketbook, we kept the thermostat at 70 this time of year. With the averaging of the sensors bouncing around a bit, it reads 70 part of the time and 69 the rest.
Señora has a Feliz cumpleaños coming up shortly. I always think of this time of year as a triple witching hour as her birthday, Valentine’s Day and the anniversary of our meeting all happen with five days of each other. I make Hallmark’s budget balance in that short period of time.
Unlike yours truly, Señora is not horrified by birthdays. This year is different, however. She is having a hard time dealing with the number. Every time she walks past the thermostat and it reads 69 she goes a little batty. She is convinced that this piece of smart, Internet connected technology is mocking her. I am hoping there is not a whole year of this.
But then again for the rest of the year we keep the thermostat at 72. Guess who is hitting this wonderful number this year. I am sure this maldito contraption will be mocking me too.
And so it goes.
It is just a number, my friend. It reminds us how precious time is and makes us reevaluate each year what is really important.
I have starting noticing that it is always the youngsters that tell you it is only a NUMBER… even if it is a REALLY BIG NUMBER.