Tuesday I had to go to work, and then come home early because the air conditioner guy was coming over. At work I just hung around and talked to people. Students were surprised that I was still around, and I talked to a few of them for a while. Money continued to come in – various people gave me cash to help me with my new life.
Around noon I was gone and arrived home in time to let the air conditioner guys come in and get to work. Actually, the guy is a friend of Kuniko’s dad. He wasn’t clear on my relationship with Kuniko’s dad, but he was cheerful and they worked hard. There wasn’t much I could do while they were working. They were working in the two rooms with all the boxes. I did laundry, and worked on some odd jobs until they were just wrapping up when Kuniko got home in the afternoon. She wasn’t feeling well at work so she came home early.
She actually knew the air conditioning guy, and they set the record straight on the relationship and you could see the light dawning in the guy’s eyes. He left around five and we had two cool rooms thanks to the power of air conditioning and the power of Kuniko’s dad’s wallet.
He actually dropped by that evening to check on things, and we served him some tea and let him sit in our cool living room and enjoy his present to us. Before long he left, but I could tell he was really happy that we’ll have some cooling this summer in the living room.
We were still working on the pumpkin, so Kuniko made mabodofu (pumpkin instead of tofu) and pumpkin fried rice and both were great. We finally finished off the pumpkin, and we got several great meals out of it.
