oddball null pointer exception reported in WearSender

ava.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke interface method 'com.google.android.gms.common.api.BaseImplementation$a com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient.a(com.google.android.gms.common.api.BaseImplementation$a)' on a null object reference
at com.google.android.gms.wearable.internal.ag.a(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.wearable.internal.ag.addListener(Unknown Source)
at org.dwallach.calwatch.WearSender.onConnected(WearSender.java:130)
at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.e.a(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.common.api.a.bn(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.common.api.a.d(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.common.api.a$2.onConnected(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.e.a(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.e.y(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.d$g.a(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.d$g.d(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.d$b.bO(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.d$a.handleMessage(Unknown Source)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5221)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:899)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:694)
more tweakage around the null pointer error