The church has a fancy new sign out on the front of the property. It has a screen that can display graphics and moving images and messages that roll, fade, and cascade in a multitude of different type fonts. It’s very cool. And everyone who has seen it is excited. Several people even jumped up and down…(although that might have been due to ants in the building).
The only problem is that we haven’t had a chance to speak with a company rep, yet, about how to control the screen or direct new messages to the screen. So for now, it’s basically an incredibly expensive thermometer. (It provides the temperature. The high temp today at the front of the church lawn was 86 degrees, in case you were wondering. You weren’t? Oh…)
Nadia has an antenna and a computer disk, which was provided to her by the men who installed the sign. (Well, these items were handed to her by some men at the front door of the church, we’re hoping they were the guys who installed the sign.) So far, the antenna doesn’t seem to work and the computer disk provided screen after screen of very complicated instructions. It appears, at this point, that changing the message on the sign is just slightly more difficult than solving advanced nuclear physics formulae. (In fact, we e-mailed a copy of the disk program to Stephen Hawking and he called back saying, “I give up. It’s too complicated for me.” And then he broke down crying. I was able to calm him down significantly by providing minute-by-minute temperature updates. Geniuses love to know the temperature.)
So, for now, the sign looks great, but we’re still waiting to be able to utilize it to its full potential. When we do.....WATCH OUT, 111th Street
By the way, it’s currently 78 degrees.
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