If it ain't Broken

I sometime wear a broken watch. I tried to repair it once but the watch-lady said it would be difficult. Her un-helpfulness gave me a moment of pause.  That was two years ago. 

The watch was given to me by mother and looks good on my wrist beside the diamond-clustered pinky-ring that belonged to my pop.  I wear them both when properly attired. 

While pondering points of grammar in Ms Yang's Chinese course, I glanced down and noticed the timepiece stuck at 9:03. 

The classroom clock also read 9:03. For an instant I thought my precious watch was working again! 

Not at all. 

This morning's coincidence was a subtle reminder that, no matter the time, there's always more to life than meets the eye.

Background checks

Depending on your financial disposition, as a landlord or property owner, it is always advisable to do background checks on all prospective tenants when possible. In my case, I was able to secure many successful landlord-tenant relations without exploring this avenue.  The reason is because most of my tenants were professional engineers and medical practitioners who were largely prescreened by their companies HR department thus saving me the time and expense.  My luck rant out when I rented to Robert Scott Franco formerly of Florida. Here's how it happened.

(stay tuned)