Carl's Pharmacy

Quick update.  We all walked to Maya's favorite location in all of wonderful Aspen, Carl's Pharmacy.  Here is a pic of Maya with Jamuna and Dr. Carl.  We then stopped over at Explore Booksellers and purchased another share of the business (maybe not, but they should be giving us shares in light of our investment in the business; not all my doing, BTW).

Carl and I walked over the Wheeler Opera House to pick up tickets for the Freakonomics program tonight.  While there a nice lady with the Chamber of Commerce gave us a tour of the building.  This is where we have seen the two operas, but Carl had not seen the interior.  Along the way we came upon this customized Hummer which Dr. Carl found quite interesting.

It's not quite as big as it may look:

The police thing is really not a huge deal; I was just experimenting with blog teasers.  Here's the short story.  On Saturday I noticed that the radar detector was missing from the car and after checking that Prema didn't remove it and after looking all around I concluded it had been stolen.  I was a bit surprised as I am habitually lock the car and regardless thought Aspen was crime-free (I suppose I forgot to lock up after carrying Prema's suitcase up the stairs when she arrived the previous night).  Since the cost was surely less less than any insurance policy we might have to cover such a loss I just figured I would accept the loss.  But as I was moping around the alley parking lot I noticed there is a surveillance camera on the corner of a building not far away, pointing right at the area the van was parked.  So I did call the police and spoke to an officer (Jason, my latest good buddy in Aspen).  He drove over a few minutes later to survey the situation, and a bit later a second officer showed up (slow crime day in Aspen, apparently).  He checked out the building with the camera but a manager was not there.  He said he would look into it and about 30 minutes later he called to let me know that he spoke with a manager and learned that the camera is operational and that today (Monday) he would investigate further.  Earlier today he called to let me know that the manager was going to preview the tape to see if the camera even recorded images that included our van.  At this point I'm still waiting to hear back.  I did learn that though violent crime is virtually unheard of in Aspen, burglaries such as what we experienced  is actually above the national average.  Will keep you posted...