Excuse unscheduled absence
Sorry! The power went out. Blammo at 5:45 a.m. It’s now 8:45 p.m. – the power blinked back on about 5 minutes ago. Whew. It was getting grim – the light fading, no ability to warm up food, freezing cold. I went out for a little walk, to have something to do and to see if I could sense any progress. There were a lot of City Light trucks lined up and several guys in a hole in the sidewalk – more guys than you would think would fit. I did a broad loop and on the homeward stretch there were four people playing fiddle music on a porch – playing it really well. Cheered me up a good deal. And then finally ping and a light came on and the fridge started up. Fooooood.
That’s miserable when it happens, especially when left cold and without decent food. Glad that’s all it was though – we do care…
I know, sorry. On the upside I decided to play hooky and do an explore across the Lake, which was fun.
I’m so glad that you are OK. It doesn’t do any harm to have a day off! In your absence, predatory and misogynistic men are still trying to convince the world to let them take absolutely everything away from women and girls, a narcissistic sociopathic antichrist is still trying to convince America that he’s the reincarnation of the Messiah, and the SNP/Greens are still determined to portray Scotland as being suddenly fifty times as hateful.
You work so hard to fight the nonsense, you definitely need a break, but it’s unfortunate that the enforced hiatus took away your heat, light, and ability to cook too. It’s great to see you back!
It doesn’t do any harm, but I hate it! Especially when it’s unscheduled and involuntary. And means I can’t open the fridge. In short, thank you, it’s great to BE back!
Good stufff; as usual from the Gertrude Stein of Cyberspace.!
And I was hoping you were doing something fun. Sorry you had such a miserable day.
Well as mentioned I was doing something fun for a big chunk of the day – grabbing an express bus to Redmond, across the big lake from Seattle, to visit a huge park with a trail along the Samammish River/Slough. The trail follows the slough all the way to where it empties into Lake Samammish. It was a perfect day for it, and very good fun. It was only when I got back and found my hopes that the failure would have been fixed were forlorn hopes fated to be dashed that it became miserable.
The parks people have placed some artificial nests on posts where the river meets the lake, and swallows are there taking advantage. Also there’s a clump of trees temporarily fenced off because full of nesting herons. Some of the herons were perched in the trees watching us humans watching them.
Good stuff.
I really think you are employed by the Seattle tourist board. According to your accounts, the city has a mass of beautiful parks and trails, and you can always find an outing somewhere attractive and interesting.
Hahahahaha I know; sorry. The truth is I hadn’t really grasped how insanely beautiful Seattle and its suburbs are until recently.
Well I live in a beautiful city as well, and even a utility walk to do a message will take me through somewhere pretty. I exclude the walk to the nearest supermarket, which is so ugly – busy road, ugly new buildings, general scruffiness – that it looks like the planners put it through so we could enjoy the contrast.
If the power went out here, and it was cold and/or wet, I’d climb on the top of a double-decker bus (free to me) and let it take me to its terminus and back. You are warm, dry, seated, and can read if you want.
Ah well yes you do. And then there’s London – so.many.brilliant.parks. Plus a river. Plus some hills.
I didn’t get horribly cold until around 7:30…and the later it is the better the odds that it will soon be fixed (though it also feels all the more as if it never will), so I went out for a walk to warm up, make it get later, and assess the situation – like, had the City Light people just GONE HOME for the night? (No.)
Glad to hear you’re okay; I was worried. Our last power outage only lasted five hours, but it was in the middle of a blizzard.
That’s one of the things I do miss about Hastings, NE – we rarely had power outages that lasted more than 30 minutes. There was a reason our power plant operator was the highest paid public employee in the state.
I loved Seattle when I visited. I don’t think I could live there, because I prefer east coast, but if I were living there, I imagine I would enjoy it.
I like the east coast myself, and grew up on it, but felt like being a ramblin ramblin ramblin type when I grew up, and the other coast got its hooks into me.
“There was a reason our power plant operator was the highest paid public employee in the state.” Wow, I’m impressed. In the vast majority of states, the highest paid public employee is a football or basketball coach at a state university.
I visited Seattle on a business trip some years ago, and liked it very much. Not that I’m any good at sight-seeing on business trips. But I got dragged along by my boss, who was very good at it, so I got to see a few things. I tend to wander around whatever conference it is, or stay in my hotel room.
No power outage at my house, but there were some flickers that took the router offline a couple of times. We used to have annoyingly frequent power outages, but they are rare now, thankfully.
Sackbut, people who referred to him as the highest paid public official were, of course, excluding the coaches. I’m pretty sure he didn’t make multi-millions, but he made more than enough to be wealthy and retire in comfort.