Author: Francis

Anyone else creeped out by hotels?

Until recently, I entirely loved staying in hotels. I feel that they were deeply tied to family vacations and excitement from my early childhood afternoons, and that feeling carried over into adulthood. I used to be giddy at the thought of packing my stuff, checking in, and seeing someone else’s cable all evening. These afternoons, […]

Undercover Heating, Ventilation plus A/C inspector

Sometimes I stop and wonder about all the random tasks that exist, which I have no idea about. There are so several invisible working parts underlying our new society that my associate and I don’t acknowledge or appreciate, but for instance, who develops the bus schedule? Who decides traffic light patterns? Who keeps an eye […]