TBW Daily Diary

Up way too early for me this morning; blood work at the hospital . . . Spent another half hour on the phone trying to give back the $500 that Citizens' Bank gave me in error over a week ago. This is getting to be a pain in the checkbook. Bet if I spent it they would wise up soon enough . . . Say Happy Birthday to Craig Peiffer tomorrow . . . Three fully-armed black men mugged a neighbor Sunday night around eleven p.m. at Green and Boas Streets, taking a wallet and cell phone and flooring the victim with a fist to the jaw. Some moments later another mugging took place at Third and Calder and the descriptions were the same. Response to the first incident was delayed two hours when the two calls for help were mistakenly regarded as a single event by the police department . . .