Musings at Altitude

 I heard a story several weeks ago about the new war on illegal drug labs, where law enforcement officials are using infrared imaging to look for those “hot spots” and then marking those as potential prime areas for illegal activities.  So today, I quickly did a google search and I came up with this:

Thermal Imaging Turns Up the Heat

As I read the article, I became increasingly concerned that our home may indeed become a target of law enforcement officers.  It fits the biggest piece of the profile – an inordantly large heat profile coming from a particular room in the house.  If a law enforcement helicopter was hovering over our house at night, it would see a huge heat signature coming out of the southwest corner of the house.  The heat being radiated would be so great that any detective would immediately assume illicit activity was occurring within these premises.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that I need to get proactive in putting up some kind of clear sign about what’s really happening in our house.  At the least, I think I need a huge banner on the roof, “PERIMENOPAUSAL WOMAN INSIDE”!  That would most certainly cover the heat sensors in the helicopters, but I need something else for the roaming cruisers.  And it would need to be something that the law enforcement folks would understand without creating too much concern from our neighbors.  Hmmm.  That’s a tough one.