johnrobe

As we sat next to each other each doing our own thing, the following exchange between Timmi and I occurred:

Timmi: One half of an apple!

I looked over and saw that she had indeed eaten 2 of the quartered apple segments she had recently brought upstairs. After another brief pause, she once again said:

Timmi: One half of an apple!

Not knowing what else to say I said:

John: I love you, my little progress indicator.

Keen observers will note that this response is a good example of both how much I care for Timmi as well as how I view the world through the eyes of a designer / developer.

Timmi: What did you call me?

John: Um… a progress indicator.

Timmi: Why would you call me that?

John: I didn't mean it in a bad way, I just liked how you announced that you were halfway done eating your apple, like a progress indicator.

Timmi: I wasn't announcing I was done with "One half an apple"… I said "Want half an apple?"

As I grow older, my hearing loss apparently makes for good humour as well as good romance.

Trivial but interesting fact I learned from hitting "Random Article" on Wikipedia — A guy named John Scott Harrison is the only person to be both the father and the son of a US president. Plus to top it off, his grampa Benjamin Harrison V, signed the Declaration of Independence.

His son was Benjamin Harrison, who I know nothing about, and his father was William Henry Harrison aka "I died in 30 days!"

That’s a lot of president in one family, eh?