Christmas tide
Strange to say I received my first Christmas card of the season today. I usually am the first to send them out, and it seemed like I was really late this year waiting till the 12th. At any rate the card was from a friend from grad school, who reminded me in his letter of the Thanksgiving of 1972, which isn't a big story other than the two of us spent it together in Columbus, OH and that it is not unrelated to the fact I haven't had Domino's pizza in over 40 years. I presume most Domino's pizza aren't as greasy as the one we had that evening so long ago, but I haven't thought it wise to risk it. My friend was a professor of folklore for many years. Back in our grad school days he introduced me to such backwoods musical treasures as Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers (featuring the blind guitar player Riley Puckett). My friend learned to play clawhammer banjo when we lived near each other, and seeing how much fun he was having, I took up the mandolin. He loved grand opera as well, which I was less enthusiastic about despite his kind patience in explaining the nitty gritty of it to me.
I got my passenger side airbag replaced on recall last week. It was six months since the recall notice for them to get the replacement bag, and I hear plenty are waiting longer. My car model was far from the first one recalled because of airbags from that particular supplier. The dealer I bought the car from is long out of business, but there is a new one much closer. The various car dealerships are so close together in that area that I drove up to the wrong car brand's service department, at first. I know they had to disassemble the dashboard to replace the airbag so I was mostly expecting it. But it's still annoying when they ask you to come in first thing in the morning and then don't get back to you till rush hour in the afternoon.
I got my passenger side airbag replaced on recall last week. It was six months since the recall notice for them to get the replacement bag, and I hear plenty are waiting longer. My car model was far from the first one recalled because of airbags from that particular supplier. The dealer I bought the car from is long out of business, but there is a new one much closer. The various car dealerships are so close together in that area that I drove up to the wrong car brand's service department, at first. I know they had to disassemble the dashboard to replace the airbag so I was mostly expecting it. But it's still annoying when they ask you to come in first thing in the morning and then don't get back to you till rush hour in the afternoon.