The top image is simply a botched scan on a tax document. It seems like every weekend I am either filling out taxes, financial aid forms, or similar documents. And this photo tells it all.
The other photo is from the Verizon store in the Mission where the kids and I always go to upgrade their phones. Verizon has changed its policy and no longer requires people with accounts like ours to sign up for two-year contracts every time we get a new phone.
Julia was thrilled to get a new iPhone 5C (green) for about $50, to be paid over the coming year. Of course the monthly contract -- for calls, texts, data, etc. -- is how Verizon makes its money and I know that. But until recently they also charged a lot when you needed to upgrade to a new phone. Plus there was always that irritating two-year commitment.
Under competition, things change.
Julia was very happy, not only about her new phone, but about a job opportunity she now has -- working in a dog-grooming shop in Noe Valley. When I picked her up after her two-hour trial visit today, she was smiling and talkative.
As we arrived home, a new cat greeted her on the street. Black and white and a bit pudgy, the cat sought her out as animals always do. She sat on the sidewalk and played with the cat and then it followed us inside for a while.
All in all a very nice day, topped off when my college team, Michigan, won its final game of the basketball regular season to finish with a record of 15-3 in the Big Ten and an outright championship.
First in over a quarter century.
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