I enjoyed being on the radio

I enjoyed being on the radio yesterday morning. It was a good experience — just wish we’d plugged ourselves a little better. Folks seem to get upset when I quote them a price, like this service is free? “Here on the radio, their services are free, but if you want to talk to them, please remember, this is what they do for a living.” [Santiago, the producer for the show.] I ran into that problem with all the calls that followed the morning show. Despite it looking like rain, I took off for a quick loop of the hike and bike trail. Much needed stress relief. Recommended novels by Rick Riordan: 1. Big Red Tequila, 2. The Widower’s Two Step, 3. The Last King of Texas, & 4. The Devil Went Down to Austin. I finished that last one, late last night — perfect “Mercury is Retrograde” reading material. Fast pace, excellent local action, and the author won my heart with his first novel, and each one (read them in order) are best taken in sequence. Big Red Tequila is named for a drink made of those two items, Big Red and Tequila. Better yet, its protagonist is an English Lit guy who likes Peet’s Coffee, but all the action is set in Texas. So you have a local flavor with a sprinkling of that Bay Area sentiment. And guns, violence, primo plotting, and just the right amount of Austin flavor. It’s kind of interesting, in the first book, the author was from San Antonio, living in the Bay Area. In the most recent one, the author’s bio now places him in San Antonio. Had to come home. A sentiment I understand. Between chapters, last night, an old resident of Shady Acres stopped by, and in the course of conversation, he dropped this line: WWJD? What Would Jenna Drink?