Technically, it's Wednesday...

I get to the r.e. office earlier than usual and there is someone at the reception desk I do not know. It turns out her name is Val.

It's warmer than it should be in the office. The AC isn't working. I try some stuff - nothing, try more stuff - more nothing, so I break out the radical ideas.

If you break what is already broken it really isn't a big deal.

I take off the thermostat and start jumping the connections with a jumbo size paper clip. I do not like jumbo size paper clips. Anyway, I get a noise and the lights dim ever so lightly. I don't know if this is good or bad but I screw about some more, then clean the contacts and put the thermostat back on and the AC starts working. My only witness, who told me the AC has been out for more than a week, said she felt a difference. I told her "That's because I'm a genius".

On my way to the office, I stopped by one of my regular places to get something to eat, and the guy says "I almost didn't recognize you without your Tabasco hat". And I had to think a minute to remember which hat I had on. I usually wear a hat that has the Tabasco Logo on it, I like it, it's a good looking hat. I got it in Texas at the Tabasco store. Today I was wearing a black Nike hat. I didn't think people really cared as to the hat I wear.

I just about finished up the r.e. work and was planning to tie up some other loose ends when the cellie rings. It's Lady G, she was in NY for the day, she needs a ride from the station. Her train was twenty minutes late, no MP3 player, no digital camera, no portable CD player, no paperback book, not even a watch, just me and the homeless. I go to get a soda, I chose root beer and I don't know why and this guy, whose kinda standing out of sight of the counter help asks me for something. I didn't hear what he said so I have him ask again. This time I make out train, which makes sense, I'm at the train station. I'm not going to ask him again as to what he wants, so I offer a buck, he said "Thanks but do you have thirty cents more?" he was holding about five dollars worth of quarters, so if he was hustling me at lest he was working at it, I didn't have any nickels so he got fifty cents and then I got my root beer. Barg's