Telephone Directory Follies

Last week the annual update of phone number directories from AT&T was delivered to my condo complex. All well and good, I just need to remember to get the old directories to recycling.

Then this morning I step outside to get to work, and what do I see. Another delivery of the new AT&T directories. Oh joy, now I'll have twice as many directories to get to recycling. (Sigh)

So, what brought this about? Right now I can think of two possibilities, both of which seem far-fetched, but nothing else occurs to me:

1. The contractor AT&T hired to make the deliveries to my area somehow lost track of where they had left the new directories and went back over areas they had already covered.
2. AT&T has more than one contractor making deliveries to overlapping areas.
   

License Plate Watch 28

Saw today the most straightforward personalized plate I think I've ever seen: "2002 S4."

It was indeed an Audi S4.

What was all that about?

I observed something a few minutes ago I need to make note of.

I have previously mentioned San Diego's fire-fighting helicopters and their base of operations.

A few minutes ago while taking a walk, I observed one of them approaching said base. I saw it trailing a spray of water behind it, and it also had it's hose for taking on water extended.

As it was getting close to it's landing spot at Montgomery Field, when it was perhaps 10 feet above the ground, I saw it hover and release a considerable amount of water from it's tank - which really startled me because there had definitely been no sign of smoke or other indications of fire from that spot.

After the copter released the water I lost sight of it as it went behind a building and presumably landed.

Only explanation I can think for releasing water from the tank just before landing is it's simply not allowed to land otherwise. I hope they at least dumped the water on some plants!

License Plate Watch 27

Seen on a Ford Explorer: "SHOTS 4U". Which is certainly open to interpretation.

I suspect...

...the person who owns this truck is really, really enthusiastic about helicopters.

Yea verily, what comes around...

...truly does go around.

In this case, please refer first to this recent post of mine.

Now, yesterday evening I stepped out of my condo and found on the ground just outside the door a packet of Avon sales materials. And I'm certain the name of the sales rep that is shown on the materials is the same person whom the shipment that came to me should have gone to in the first place.

That gave me a good laugh!

That was quick, or, good work, oh city

I've been noticing for a several days that a traffic light on my usual route to my workplace has not been displaying the red. It's a redundant light, so I haven't been real worried about it. (There's another one just a few feet away that points in the same direction.)

But this morning I decided it was time to report it to San Diego's Street Division via the City's web site. (This page links to ways to report problems on city streets; I've used it before to report pot holes.) So, I sent that in shortly after getting to my job.

Just a few minutes ago while I was out for an exercise walk, I went past the intersection this traffic light is at. I looked at it, and whoa! The red was displaying. That startled me, but I must assume reports of problems with traffic lights are treated as high priorities.