Power Outage Fun.

 

I had a blackout recently at my apartment on Thursday night. During a thunderstorm watch. The power went out about 6:10 PM. I am glad it happened the day it did and not a day or two before. The two days before maintenance had been working on my apartment's HVAC unit. They had to take the compressor out and take it to their shop. It was a big old thing that takes two to lug around. My AC had not been functioning. It sounded like it was trying to run, but it wasn't cooling and the digital controlled thermostat was acting weird, it would blink out whenever you tried to make any adjustments. Well it took them two days to fix it, the compressor was bad and there was a pipe leak that had to be fixed. So then the night after they had fixed stuff came the power outage.

During the power outage, the power company gave me some robot recorded status update calls. The first call stated that power outages had been reported for my building and that they were working on the issue. Estimated restoration time based on past outages and assessment of any damage was at first 9:30, then call 2 the time was cutback to 8:30, or maybe 8:15, call 3 estimate was 8:00. Then shortly after 8:00 the power was still out and they apologized about not having the power back yet. Then around 8:10 PM the power was restored. About 5 minutes later the final call of the evening stated the power was restored.

During the power outage all of my Xfinity service was out. I have the 3-in-1 bundle of Cable, Internet, and Landline Phone. So my WiFi was also out. Fortunately for my cellphone I have Verizon so I could the cellphone.

Friday morning while checking my emails, there were a couple of emails from the management company of my apartment complex telling about the power outage for 3 of the buildings in the complex. Apparently not all of the complex was affected. 

Before the power outage I had been doing a load of clothes in the washer, when the power came back on the clothes washer came back on.

Maybe I'll Title This Later

 Not sure what I want to post about this time.

I don't like to get into politics, However I will be so glad when a certain leader will no longer be in power because then hopefully all the controversy and hate, especially the hate will be gone. It is not because I hate the leader, I can take or leave him, but it is all the hatred that is unleashed toward him. In many ways the hatred for him is worse than what he is actually doing or what people are saying he is doing, or will do. Much of what people are saying is just that people saying. Every Joe Schmo on Facebook is an expert politician or health official these days. They have no idea what he thinks they are just saying things they think he might do or could try to do. Most of the time he isn't doing what they are saying. He likes to stir up the pot and keep it simmering, then he lets everything boil over. Well That is that for that at this time.

I guess this will be a catch-all stream of consciousness sort of. So when does the ship sail?

I seem to have gotten a second blogging wind back for my trading card blog. I am updating a few drafts over there and am starting drafts for a few other ideas I have. Sadly I'm not sure what I want to do over here. <sigh>