"Yeah, Lopez was a nice guy."
"Well...." Forester's voice trailed off in embarrassment.
"Yeah, well...."
"I wanted to remind you about the budget meeting."
Eddie glanced at his watch. "Hour and a half?"
"Yeah. You know, I feel like ... never mind. What about the burial transformers, you get on it yet?"
"The ones we're running in the water mains for cooling? They're out of warranty. None of the local shops can rewind them until the manufacturer sends out a field engineer to set them up for the encapsulation process."
"How long is that going to take?" Forester asked.
"They tell me several months. Still doesn't leave us with anything. The plant says they've fixed the trouble, but between them and the rewind shop, they can buck it back and forth forever."
"I guess we'll have to go back to the pad-mounted type."