SOME EARLY 80′S TREATS TO START THE WEEK!
Memorial day…big holiday, lots of family, BBQ, etc. So here is how mine went. Beautiful weather. Check. Som good food waiting to be cooked. Check. Squirrel committing suicide by diving into my little towns power sub-station, thereby knocking all the power out to the town? CHECK! That’s right. This little critter caused a fire in the towns little substation about 9 am yesterday, and it wasn’t until 5 that the power came back on. Made for an interesting, and BORING, day.
I don’t think people realize how important something like electricity it until it’s not there. No TV. No internets. No radio. (We couldn’t find any batteries for it, and it just didn’t seem worth the effort to lift the garage door manually to go out and get some. lol) We were suddenly turned into turn of the century people, and honestly, we didn’t pass the test very well.
I grabbed my iPod, only to find the battery on it had been drained during the outdoor work the previous two days. So no music kind of pissed me off. I did read a lot…two back issues of Time. I also did the crossword puzzle. (I addicted to 4 things in this world…my wife, music, Suduko, and Crosswords). I also read a book a bought at the airport the other day, Jeff Shaara’s The Rising Tide. Great book.
Towards the end, I commented on how utterly miserable we were after just 8 hours of no juice. If this was a test, we failed miserably. When the power did come back on, I was hoping like a little boy, doing a victory dance. First thing I did was fire up my computer, and start listening to some tunes to put this post together. Music, the food of life! Enjoy
- The Cure – The Walk
- U2 – New Year’s Day
- The Smiths – Handsome Devil (Peel Session)
- Siouxsie & the Banshees – Dear Prudence
- Cocteau Twins – Wax and Wane
- New Order – Leave Me Alone
- Joy Division – Dead Soul
- Laurie Anderson – O Superman
- Echo & the Bunnymen – Bring On The Dancing Horses
- The Only Ones – Another Girl Another Planet
May 27th, 2008 at 6:36 am
Your description of life without electricity was funny, yet dredged up bad memories of hurricane Wilma in Oct 2005 and no power for over a week. It’s amazing what you find to occupy your mind when the world is in chaos around you. I fell asleep every night with a flashlight propped on my shoulder, reading a book. And, when you live in the great state of FL with “Florida Flicker and Flash” as your power company, several-hour-long power outages are the norm. My company has a generator to keep us up and running when a squirrel wanders into the power grid.
Anyway, thanks for the music and hope you have a better week.
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May 27th, 2008 at 8:02 am
@MissParker0106:
The 2004 hurricane season was one of the reasons I don’t live in Florida anymore. Even with the 4 hurricanes that threatened Tampa that year, I think the longest we ever lost power for was like 3 days, and that wasn’t Jeanne hit. I remember Jeanne made this turn, and looked like it was going out to see, so we left to go on vacation. It then made this freaky loop, and buzzed right across Florida. That was also the only hurricane the really did any damage by knocking over one of out oak trees, just missing the house. And we missed it all!
May 27th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Fortunately for us, the 2004/2005 hurricane seasons were aberrations. Aside from Andrew in ‘91, things had been relatively calm for the previous 30 years. Let’s hope we slip back into a 30-year “slump” once again. Meanwhile, I still don’t have to shovel any snow.
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May 27th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
@MissParker0106:
Ohhhh…that last one really hurt!
May 27th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
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