Good day, friends.
Laptop's half dead, coffee's hot, and my feet are freezing.
let's get funky.
Laptop's half dead.
So about 9:45 or so last night, as I was headed to bed, there were... fireworks.
Random, but ok. Until we realized what we had heard, and saw through the curtains, wasn't fireworks. It was a transformer blowing, right in front of my house. We realized this, when I went into the bathroom and turned the light on and nothing happened....
well... damn.
within moments, Consumer's energy was all over it, texting me.... 4 times to let me know there was a power outage. Where were they BEFORE I walked into the bathroom?
So electronics were unplugged, and I wandered thru my dark house, to where I knew I had, at some point, tossed some flashlights.
Still in the package.
with the batteries taped..
But there are no such things as problems, I'm told, only opportunities.
Eventually, I handed out now-working flashlights; told my almost 14 year old that she was ready for the truth, and that flashlights are not, as she assumed for so long, toys; found a portable light in the same drawer w/ flashlights, put that in the bathroom, and went to bed.
Woke up this morning to power, lots of blinking clocks, and several emails from the internet company, letting me know they had detected an outage, and were, apparently, struggling to fix it.
Hey, call the electric company. They may have some insight into the problem.....
blinking clocks are fixed, phones and laptops are plugged back in, and life moves on apace.
Kid's still asleep, which she should be, at 7:30 on a saturday morning. My house is 64 degrees, and my feet are freezing. but if I turn on the furnace, it'll get loud and warm. She's snug and happy and asleep, so.... I'll find a pair of slippers.
Coffee WAS hot, when I started this. And then I decided to soak my feet in it....
