KJ Cometh

KJ is from the Orlando Sentinel. I have known that she is a Mac expert. I've learned that she is from their Tech Support and has excellent hardware knowledge all around. Most important to me is that she is a dream to work with.

Of course, nothing was exactly right at the apartments. I had her on the wrong floor. The apartment two doors down is incomplete. It is becoming more complete every day. And she is okay with the transition. She made a list for Deepak (our house boy) of all the things she needs. They are doing pretty well. She still has my couch, but I may learn to love the black one.

We decided not to see everything in the city in one swoop like Harriet and I did. So Monday, on the way to work, we stopped at the Tipu's Palace where the temple next door had been painted and spruced up for a holiday. I love the bright orange trees. I call them the flame trees of Thika from an old PBS show, but I think they are really a different color of Jacaranda. The Tipu continues to impress. He was very progressive for his age, but lost out to the superior British fighting power.

Then we went to the Bull Temple. So this bull was eating all the crops, according to our driver Ramesh. He wandered on to this plate, sat down and took root. He kept growing until they put something over his horns. The Dravidians worship him. I gave the guy some money as we walked in the door and he gave us jasmine blossoms. They smell amazingly powerful. I thought they'd put some essential oil on them, but I've been told that they are the real deal.

This tree is outside the Tipu's Palace. If you look closely in the trees I will see big hanging pods. I'm not sure what those are. I thought they were loofas in the wild, but I think those are a squash. Our last driver said he majored in repairing cars, not identifying trees. I guess I'll have to do some research on line.

The teams took their assessment test yesterday and did not do well. Karen and I think they may have focused too much on the wrong things on the software test. They have now covered our two main topics, the issues that we get the most calls on - Outlook and Domain passwords (Active Directory.) I'm going to ask this morning if I can tell them more about what those calls will sound like and how they should work with the users. If they can do these things easily, they will have 50% of their calls handled.

15 minutes to finish dressing and off to work.