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It’s too hot to do anything except occasionally rotate to present the other side to the fan. Philadelphia peaked at 102°F (38.9°C) this afternoon. It’s just after 6:00 now, and 101° in the city. I put a 9″X13″ pan of water out in the garden with ice in it in the shade this afternoon for…

I continually underestimate The Prof [insert head hung in shame here]. He got things fixed with the apartment management this morning, and they’ve agreed to extend our lease for an additional month, which is all we need to accomplish the move. No penalties, no grief, no problems. The Prof brought the paperwork over for me…

OK, did Kitten pose for this garden ornament or what? Unfortunately, poor Kitten had the smug wiped off her face this afternoon, when the apartment maintenance guys showed up to fix the toilet in the master bedroom and work on one of the bedroom doors so it would close properly (when it gets humid the…

Thursday I discovered a BIG mistake at The Pharmacy while doing an audit of the scripts waiting to be picked up. It is a mistake I made once in the first few weeks of my employement, and one that I thought I’d been taking particular care in avoiding making again. Of course, finding the error…

The Professor and I ended up seeing FotR with my contact in MIS (a huge Tolkien fan) and his wife (who has never read any of the books and wasn’t sure if there were one or two “b’s” in “hobbit”). My correspondence with him about the movie this morning follows. Some spoilers are included, I’m…

To recap what had happened previously: · I called our cable representative twice to get cable TV. He never responded to my messages. · About a week and a half after I left the second message, my cable representative called me to say he could save me money by hooking us up to cable television….