| flooding. fuck jasper reports. |
[Apr. 17th, 2007|12:31 am] |
The damned power went out around midnight-thirty last night. I powered down the laptop, and went to bed--without lights, there's not really anything to do at that hour, and we don't have flashlights. I magically happened to wake up not long after eight in the morning, and while I was considering what to do with the contents of the fridge, the power came back on. Despite spending roughly eight hours without power, the fridge kept its contents well-refrigerated. My frozen broccoli remained pristine, my ice cubes unmelted. I think I was pessimistic due to the last refrigerator mishap I had, when the compressor died and it filled the fridge with hot air.
Work was tiring as hell today. I discovered ( dorkery ). But honestly, fuck Jasper Reports.
I think I'm coming down with what she had over the weekend; I'm feeling generally yecchy. She made me soup and ordered in some Chinese food, after we started our getting-home process which consisted of immediately taking off our shoes, flopping on the bed and reading the new comics that arrived today. I got Ex Machina v5, Sandman Mystery Theatre v1 and Lucifer v1-2. Clearly I'm starting some new series. (As always, my books show up on LibraryThing as I manage to add them.)
It's all floody outside; it was pretty surreal. Every so often, the mayor of a town somewhere in this state mentions that because of low rainfall, they might have to start limiting water usage. There then quickly follows a torrential downpour; it's our local version of a rain dance. I wonder if someone made water-consumption-limiting rumblings over the last week or two.
The power outage apparently included a surge which conked out my router. I couldn't connect to it over wireless; I couldn't even connect to it via a regular wired ethernet connection. The thing's lights go on, but it's toasted. I went with Carin out to the Mart to get another WRT54G, and discovered that they're charging sixty bucks a pop. I've ordered one for cheaper from eBay, and I'm going to return the Mart router as soon as the cheaper one comes in.
And so I was able to mail in that "at most two pages" paper which I finished at one page plus about three lines on page two. I'm frankly not excited by systems analysis, and I'd said absolutely everything I could have usefully said.
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