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Pardon the interruption. With this I’m ending the longest break from
\nweblogging since this buggy started rolling in early January. I was flying
\naround the countryside over the weekend, banking through snowclouds and enjoying
\nshort layovers in Detroit and Cleveland on the way East. Since I left on
\nSaturday, which, by the way, was highlighted by a short visit with my dad and S.
\nin the Detroit airport, I’ve really missed blogging–or missed the time for
\nblogging as a way of re-collecting dispersions of thought. And there’ve
\nbeen dispersions aplenty–promising ones. <\/p>\n

Saturday was, for me, the coldest Lupercalia on record. First off, D.
\nwas back home, snug in K.C., but aside from that, the wall unit in Ramada 233
\nsuffered a meltdown. Late at night. What the? Yes. At
\n2:30 a.m., I woke up to a dingy-smelling PVC smoke. A faint odor, like burnt wiring, perhaps from a nearby room. No! My room. Geez. I felt the
\nwall-mounted heating unit. It was burning up. I had set it to five (out of
\na possible 12), thinking that it would get my room to between 68-70 degrees for
\nthe night. So, before the smoke alarm started its awful hooting, I dialed
\nthe front desk and declared my predicament. Room 233. The night
\nmanager showed up just after the blaring started–the alarm in my room only was
\nsounding off. He said he could hear it in the hall. Great. It
\nwas V-Day night and the loving hour, no less, I thought. So the night
\nmanager slid the plastic alarm from the ceiling; meanwhile, I opened the window.
\nTwo degrees Fahrenheit. He tugged on the nine-volts, but the screamer was
\nhard-wired–rightly so. Finally, N.M. resorted to rip the blaring alarm
\nfrom the ceiling. In silence and wonder, we reconciled a bad plan for
\nrestoring normalcy to my night. I’d sleep; he’d go back to the desk and
\nwrite a note for the next day’s service person. With windows closed and no
\nheat except my own, I took cover, dreamless. It was, in retrospect, the
\nlow-point of the trip, the rest of which was incredibly warm and welcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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