[M.D. Holloway]

It never fails, if the smoke alarm is gonna go off it will do so in the wee hours...

Well it happened a few hours ago. I went through every room and checked for smoke, even the attics and garage, checked each one and all showed red but no blink - strange. Wife calls FD non-emergency, PD shows in less than 2 minutes - impressive, FD in less than 5. i like this town.

The officer tells me that he has had 4 similar calls in the past night with the same thing. I asked him if it could be sun spot activity or maybe the poles are changing polarity to whit he looks at me as if I had just finished a 1/2 once. I hadn't.

FD enters domicile in full regalia. Dogs are beyound curious but well behaved considering these men stand (in their boots) at least 6'5" and because they are firemen they look the better part of two fidy. No disrespect but its true.

Upon a complete inspection nothing was discovered yet the alarms are all sounding at once. Normally I get an indication of a failed battery by churps spread out. Not the case here.

They took off each and after the third one found that it wasn't the battery but the detector itself had expired. They told me that detectors have a life of about 7 years and that I should look to replace all of them. Makes sense...

Wide awake at 3:30AM and decided i should write an app that would be a homeowners/car owners personal assistant that would have reminders to do everything like check and change smoke detector batteries to get your cholestrol checked!

Looking to source out an Indian programmer...