As I'm sitting here, I am waiting for my laptop battery to die. (I'm also typing this without any internet at the moment...)
Why? because at about 11:50am this morning, the electricity blew.
Last night it blew and was out for about 10 minutes... throughout the entire condo complex. After last night's power outage, the teevee was screwy. Then this morning, it totally died. Right in front of me.
So, I'm sitting here in the dark (or partial grayness since it's 12:44pm) and writing... because that's all I can do.
I was on the phone earlier with Comcast to see if the teevee issue was on their end... then I saw a flash of white light and the teevee just committed suicide.
Stupid thing is only 2 years old. Or was.
Then I got on the horn (thankfully, I do have a landline that's not a cordless phone... although, I guess I could've used the cellphone.) with the Electric Company (the E-LEC-TRIC COM-PAN-EEEEEEE dun dah dah!) and asked what the skinny was with today's power outage.
They said that there are about 1600 houses in the area without power and that it SHOULD be back up and running by 2:30pm...
we'll see.
In the meantime, gigglemom is on her mini-oxygen tank right now since the oxygen converter relies on electricity.
whatever. at the moment, between the silence of having no teevee and no electricity to generate that background hum, my skin is crawling....
my battery on the laptop is at the 50% mark.
so, i was on the phone wth the electric company and told them that the teevee was screwed up by last night's outage and now I have to fill out a claim and send that in.
I'm just wondering what the hell is going on in the cosmos that is effing with me electronically and mechanically...
1. July - 2 tires - $500
2. August - laptop dies, needs new hard drive $550
3. October week of the 12 - 18:
• Blow out knee
• Blow out tire
• Other tire has nail in
• Buy 2 new tires; $300
• Lose one checkered stem cap in tire switch
• PC Desktop DIES. DEAD. PININ' FOR THE FJORDS
4. October week of the 19 - 22 (I refuse to have a crappy rest of the week)
• Knee getting worse
• Electricity surge/outage kills teevee (I had a power surge cord on it, too.)
• ANOTHER Electricity outage leaving me with no internet or light.
• Woke up to a trail of dog poop on carpet
Oh, yeah, didn't I mention that?
This morning I woke up to head to the ladies' room and there was a trail of poop strewn across the carpet.
I, being related to Sherlock Holmes in my head, quickly deduced that the trail led from one point of the carpet over to gigglemom's slipper near her bed.
Apparently, during the night, GM had gotten up to go to the ladies' room as well and did not have the light on, nor were her eyes or nose open.
So, she didn't see that Beri had gotten up in the middle of the night, and out of the kindness of her heart, she didn't bark to go out because she didn't want to wake us. So sweet.
In any event... there I was this morning, cleaning dog poop from GM's slipper, from the carpet (in 7 places) and from Beri's arse.
Yeah, apparently the dog had a bit of an issue during the evening.
So... the day started out awesome. No, really, friggin fantastic.
The laptop battery is at 25% now...
Have I whinged about the knee lately?
It's still hurting. I have a brace on it... alas, it's not really feeling great. I thought that I would attempt to walk around the reservoir today... but, that's not happening....
The way things are going today, I'd be walking around the path and a rapist would jump me (not that I'm trying to be conceited and say that I'd attract a rapist) and then he'd probably kick my other knee in and steal my cell phone. Seeing as that is the only gadget/electronic piece of equipment that I have that reaches the outside world at the moment.
So, no. I am sitting here on my couch, knee on a pillow, typing on my laptop as the power is sucked out of it, hoping that the electricity comes on soon so that I can effing WORK and do updates to sites and all that good stuff.... not to mention post this ranting and raving entry.
It figures that the one time that I cannot do ANYTHING in this house, I am not tired enough to nap.
(Laptop battery is flashing a yellow warning sign.)
I am ready to go down the street and buy a butter churn and paint some hex signs...
***UPDATE: The electricity and internet came back on at 2pm***
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Happy Humpday, just in case you decide to take a walk and the rapist shows up:-!
Der Parson says we shall surely burn in hell for using dur E-lec-tricity, and dur internets. I am tinking maybe you incur der Lawd's wrath? What did you do, show your ankles or sunthin? You need to keep yer mule well fed and walk him circles while he's connected to der generater to get der 'lectricity for der intrawebs machine and such. Stay holy, I go to Greta's for quilting now.
LOL @ Carol! Keep your chin up, GC. Your week/month/year HAS got to get better!
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