Claustrophobia threatens, despite the interior spaciousness, and I find myself longing for a long walk beneath vibrant blue sky. Even if the mist burned off and my knee was willing to cooperate, however, it couldn’t happen today. I scheduled the personal-assistant interviews at sixty-minute intervals. All six candidates were students, so none of their résumés suggested particularly outstanding job performance. Still, the position I’m hiring for requires neither a degree, nor even high-level intellect. I did request references, and despite the holiday weekend managed to contact most of them. Not that you can always count on the recommendations of friends and family members, if that was, indeed, who they were. I also did quick background checks through an Internet service, however reliable that might be. One of the guys had an overabundance of traffic violations. No way I could let someone like that drive one of my vehicles, and since his might very well get impounded, I crossed him off my list.
