Some progress here.  I have certainly learned to pay attention to bounce-back email...

Our Modern World Dept.:  Abuela had to sit down and have a long chat with her administrative AI yesterday.  Of course, it would not do for the great Jeanine Salla not to have a first class Evolving Intelligence handling her affairs, but despite her brilliance, she did grow up in a time when machines were mostly just . . . machines.

She tends to be brusque, which is fine with a toaster, but less efficient with the sentient help.  The administrative intelligence--typical that Abuela would never have given it a name--has become rather resentful, to the point of waging a small campaign to express her displeasure.  All trivial actions--a reference mis-spelled in a paper; "forgetting" to remind her of office hours; booking her next to the engine in an almost empty plane. 

The Salla women are not used to being crossed, though; she was about to just wipe the assistant and re-install when I suggested a conversation might clear the air. (Actually, a resentful AI is always bad news, but Mephista demanded that I intercede. Talk about all politics being local!)  We shall see if things improve.

In more important matters:  the killer has been caught.  Now we'll see what she has to say for herself.

L