We went to a piano recital at UMBC Last Sunday to hear Beethoven’s “Hammer-Klavier”. The description left out one critical piece of information. This work is 45 minutes long. They didn’t tell us that until we were seated in the auditorium. Too long, too long.
SOCA (our association name) has phones that use wired service that is no longer supported. We want to switch our phones to some kind of internet service. I spent several hours with some of the SOCA board members and our property manager. There’s lot’s of confusion.
Somebody helped themselves to some children’s books from Amazon using our credit card. Amazon promised to investigate and get back to me in 48 hours. They didn’t, so I reported the fraud to our credit card folks. It’s hard to prove anything because these are E-books. There’s nothing to hold or touch. In the mean time, the bank invalidated our credit card. We should receive a new card within a week. In the mean time, they sent the new credit card number so we can pay our online bills.
Ted Hartka passed. He was 85 years old. He is Danita’s first cousin. We went to the funeral yesterday (Saturday). We didn’t know any of Ted’s relatives. We saw Ed and Lynne. All four of us decided not to go to the reception. The funeral was at our old church near Kingsville. We took Cromwell Bridge Road to get there. Afterwards, we drove by Jamie’s, purveyor of very good subs and milkshakes. Strangely, at 10 of Noon there were no cars in their parking lot. We drove on and had lunch at the Sunshine Grille. We came back via Harford Rd, pausing for a drive-buy of our old house. It’s looking pretty good. The only thing we could tell about the back is that the fence surrounding the back yard has been removed. There wasn’t much change from Cromwell Bridge all the way down to Joppa Rd. They put in a very confusing circle at Harford and Mt. Vista. The Buddhists are building a temple on Mt. Vista at the Harford Rd intersection.
Today we had dinner at Ed and Lynne’s. Rick and Suzy are in town, but Suzy isn’t feeling well, so they decided to stay home. We decided not to pass up a great dinner and good conversation, so just the four of us had dinner together.
That’s it for this week. I hope everybody is doing well.