Monday Meanderings

Some things about old age are a blessing. There's a whole library full of new books to read, even if I've read them before. And the turn-around time is getting shorter and shorter!

We have a protest going on near our neighborhood. A small commercial development on the Southwest corner of Lamar and Braker caters to Oriental businesses - never mind the huge Chinatown Center just a block away on Lamar. Maybe that's why the Oriental Grocery store didn't stay around too long and now the sign says "Monterrey Meat Market." But since the change, we've seen a solitary Oriental couple standing at the street entrance, holding up a sign. Unfortunately, you can't read the lettering. Maybe we need to stop and see if we want to take up their cause. Or not.

Our fancy new air conditioning system broke. We hadn't had to use it much, but the other night I noticed it was not cooling, so I placed a service call the next morning. The person taking the call said with alarm, "Is this the unit that was installed just 3 weeks ago?" When I assured her it was, she said that someone would call me right away! Indeed. First the Installations Manager called, and she sent out their Inspector, who discovered it had leaked all it's freon, so he called their Trouble Shooter, who came with his super freon sniffer device and found the leak; then he set up the appointment early the next morning to have the Install Team come replace the inside coils.

There's more. Because Barbara was at her desk working on Greek at the time, we learned that the Trouble shooter was in Air Conditioning repair and not the ministry because of Greek. Interesting.

Oh, and the a/c seems to be doing fine now, thank you.

And I got an email from Southwest Airlines advertising "50% off a Mystery City Each Day,"
Does that mean you buy a ticket and then they tell you where you are going?