As we head into fall in preparation for the milder temperatures, if you are lucky enough to live in Phoenix, or the harsher and colder temperatures, if you live in the mountains or farther North, I realized that I haven’t updated this blog in far too long.
Life goes on. The last few months have been good ones. I have a new job, same as the old job, displaced by a handful of cubes from where I once sat. I just sent a new novel to my beta readers, and I just posted a micro story in the spirit of Halloween.
But this week has been a mechanical nightmare. Monday the Air Conditioning went out on my car. It is still in the high nineties here in Phoenix, and well over a hundred inside the car when I get off work. I am thankful that it lasted until milder temperatures.
Sometimes lemonade happens when life gives you lemons. I always drive when I go out to dinner with my wife, but she drove since I need to get my A/C fixed. We came out from the restaurant, she turned the key, and a clicking sound came from the starter. Her battery had gone dead. Phoenix summers are hard on batteries. They typically last one or two summers before they die.
The next couple out of the restaurant happily jumped her car. I drove it home. Tomorrow I will take the battery in to exchange it for a new one. She was happy I was there when it happened. I could be upset, but I chose to call it lemons from lemonade.
Things often happen in threes. The third is that yesterday my son, in college in Minnesota, sent me a text saying noises were coming from his 8 year old Nissan and he was taking it to the dealer. He texted me this afternoon the verdict: His transmission was about to die. The sentence: $3200 for a new one. He is calling around to try and find a cheaper transmission, and if we can’t get the repair costs less than the national debt, a good used car.
As I mentioned, I just sent a new novel to my beta readers. Its the first of my Science Fiction Novel of mine that is ready to publish. It’s titled “Fourth Space” It is a contemporary time travel novel set on a college campus. I believe it has some thought provoking uniqueness’s that will set it apart from the many time travel novels that flood the genre.
I hope you enjoy my Short, “Dinner Guest.” If you read the short remember, it is almost Halloween.
Pat