Divine Intervention

I went out with "Grandma Judy" Heffelman and one of our mutual friends from church today--lunch and a movie. It's kind of the female version of ROMEO (Retired Old Men Eating Out). Judy and some other women do this once a month. I've been invited before but never took advantage of it. Tuesday is Senior Day at the Shiloh Cinema in Avon, IN--a couple bucks off admission price and a "senior card" that offers reduced rates for popcorn and/or free drinks.

We ate lunch at McAlister's, a place somewhat like Panera Bread except they deliver your meal to the table after you order and pay at a counter. After we ate, we took a look at movie reviews and showing times at the theater...and settled on The Iron Lady, with Meryl Streep playing Britain's former prime minister, Margaret Thatcher. (Our other pick was Joyful Noise with Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah, but it started later...) We had about 45 minutes to kill, so we stopped at Michael's (the craft store) to browse. It's right there in the same complex with the theater so was a good choice.

In the middle of the movie, I started feeling around in my purse for a cough drop and happened to notice that my wallet wasn't in there. I wasn't looking for my wallet, so it surprised me that I noticed. I've had times before when I was feeling around for my wallet and couldn't find it when it WAS there, so I excused myself to go down toward the lobby light to check on it. Nope! Not there! I immediately headed for the cashier's station and asked if I might have left a black wallet there. Yep! The manager excused himself to go get it, then asked for a name or to show him an ID to prove it was mine, explaining that it was just for my security that he was asking. I told him that I appreciated that!! There was no money in my wallet, but my debit card was in there.

I call it Divine Intervention. I don't know why I noticed that the silly thing wasn't in my purse. As I said, I wasn't looking for it. Had it not been for that, we would have gone all the way home after the movie before I noticed that my wallet was missing, which would have caused some panic and a trip back to Avon. Thanks be to God!

I've had a lot of Internet connectivity problems lately. On Sunday, I couldn't get a connection at all until late in the day, and even then it was "iffy". I called AT&T that day. Got an automated menu-driven response, which is never satisfactory to me. I want to talk to a human! My own personal diagnosis was that the static and pops and clicks on my phone line were causing the problem...or I needed a new modem. It's a long and involved story. Suffice it to say that AT&T supposedly ran some tests on my phone line. On Monday morning, I got an automated phone call saying that my service had been "restored". I still had connectivity problems, but not as bad...and today, I think I was only disconnected once. We'll see how things go. I very much dislike paying for something that doesn't work...and don't get between me and my Internet! Divine Intervention again? Sorry...don't think so!

In any case, we've had a wonderfully warm day today, although it was windy and became increasingly cloudy as the hours went on. I've said, somewhat sarcastically, that I expect winter weather to return just about Superbowl time!