The power is off, on, off

The fact is that I often write a little bit here and there on my blog. Without any computer, though, that becomes tricky. If I don't get to your site as usual, I will, I will, if/when the problem's solved.

Yes, the lousy weather came. I decided to write the events of the last couple days in Twitter-sized bits; don't know why.

I have stuff for tomorrow, but future postings may be disrupted by lack o' access.

Th 6pm - Bible study xed by forecast, Indian food @ Shalimar. To corner; next walk so slick, need to grab lamppost to not slide into rd.

Th 8:30pm - short choir rehearsal. Friend Deb gives ride to store-rock salt- & home, inc. sleet. Take out trash. Read, sing to daughter.

F 3am - power out, then on. Wife up to reset clock. 2 min. later - power out, then on. Up c 5:30-computer won't turn on, tho' monitor is.

F 5:45am - can't get school closings: computer, cable-attached TV whacked out. Use 7" set. Most closed, not ALB, day care, wife's school.

F 6am- ALB, day care closed, wife's school not. I'll stay w/Lydia. 6:20-wife's school finally closed. She'll stay with Lydia. To Y, work.

F 7:30am- no rball players @Y. Lock missing frm locker, buy new. Paged - wife calls. No power @ work, no one authorized to close office.

F 8:15am-call lib dir from Y @ his cell -no power means no phones. Call 9:15 on MY cell, it died, then pay phone. ALB lib open @ 11. Home.

F 1:15 pm- Go to ALB lib in midst of windstorm. W/ melting, brought down chunks of ice onto cars & people. Write this.
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Well, that was going to have to be the post, but I went home, tried to figure out the computer again, and realized I could get it to work if I didn't run it through the surge protector, but rather plugged it into the power strip directly. Good news - computer operates. Bad news - no less protection, which might fry the computer sometime.

The wife and daughter had taken a nap, but the wife got up. This would have been just the perfect time for us to watch together those programs we planned to watch together (Earl, Office, 30 Rock), except for one little thing: the cable was in this minimalist mode. We had no DVR service and had but five channels to watch : community access, some advertising channel, NASA, TV Guide Channel and, fortunately, the PBS affiliate. so I read and Carol did Christmas stuff.

This also meant I watched the news and JEOPARDY! in a way I'm unaccustomed - in real time, on the 7" set. Did I mention it was in black & white? I prefer the time shifting.

All in all, a good day.

Could have been worse. Over 200,000 homes in the area were without power in my area, but we weren't one of them - well, except for an hour around 6 p.m. last night, which seems to have fried (temporarily? permanently?) the DVR.
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