Hurrah. Amazon finally agreed to refund the money for the fraudulent book purchase. If this had ben physical books, the process would have been trivial. But it was for E-books, which are easily downloaded. One has to work hard to get a refund when no physical things are involved.
We had a wonderful brunch at the Baltimore Museum of Art. After being fed, we heard a presentation about oriental art. I have in the past wrote about “art speak”, where people use common words in unusual ways. If one isn’t in the know, it can be hard to figure out what the speaker is saying. This time the presenter was over 60, the emcee in his 40s. The younger man was fluent in art speak. The presenter spoke standard English with only a few individual art speak words sprinkled here and there. I guess this is as much about age as art.
We had a very good Gyro / Greek food truck this week. We also had one of our neighborhood parties. The party had chicken lasagna, which was OK, and some very interesting deserts.
The movie house near us is offering $5 ticket Tuesday. We decided to take advantage and watched “One Battle After Another”. It was so bad, we walked out. The movie had good reviews, but it wasn’t for us. If you go the movies, don’t glance at the number of stars. Read some of the reviews.
My hearing aids are OK, but they don’t help at all when I am in noisy environments (such as a neighborhood party). A couple of weeks ago, my audiologist blasted out flyers about new, better hearing aids that help in noisy environments. I was skeptical, but my hearing aids are going out of warranty soon, so I visited the audiologist. I got a pair on loan. I was quite surprised. I heard almost everything at our table during the neighborhood party. Are the hearing aids really that helpful? Was I simply having a good evening? I don’t know for sure, but I decided to spring for the new. I will buy the new hearing aids this week. It helps a lot that my health insurance pays most of the cost.
That’s all for us this week. I hope this finds everybody doing well.