Posted by Jim at February 23rd, 2004

This makes the third time within a year that our power has gone out in an inconvenient way.

The first time it was due to an ice storm. The second time a mouse (or some rodent, it was too burnt to identify) managed to cause a short at the local power station. This time either snow, squirrels or something caused my neighbors’ power line to burst into flame, casting my house (and theirs too, I assume) into darkness.

The furnace went out too. This was not good considering the snow and cold.

My wife called both 911 and the power company.

The power line’s fire burned out before they got here. The man from Consumers Energy fixed the power line withing 40 minutes of arriving.

All was well until I got home from work. The power surge turned out to have claimed another casualty–my router. So now I’ve only got one computer connected and I’ve got to send in my router.

Even more annoyingly, the gibberish that my router was spouting caused my computer to crash (the windows computer that is) and annihilated my bookmarks.

So, that’s my day.