Busy Monday Rambly Bits

[gnomi]

-- Been busy, and this week looks busy, too. I'm approaching a deadline at work, so stuff is kicking into high gear. If posting is sparse here, that will be why. Alternatively, if I become Posty McPostalot, it will be due to my avoiding stuff I should be doing. :-)

-- Between Friday and Sunday, mabfan and I experienced two power outages. The one Friday started just before we were leaving for work, and power was restored long before we were home from work; yesterday's was more inconvenient (started around 5:30 PM and ended around 7:45 PM). At least yesterday afternoon's weather was on the cool (and rainy) side, so we weren't stifling in our powerless state.

-- Saturday night, I received word that I have sold my second story.

-- I've been morbidly fascinated by the ever-changing news story regarding Clark Rockefeller.

-- Some sort of allergen has been bugging me for the past week. I'm not sure if I'm now allergic to new and exciting summer plant life or if the recent consistent rainfall has stimulated my normal allergens to reinvigorate.

-- I've gotten particularly hooked on a couple of this summer's new shows, specifically "The Middleman" and "In Plain Sight." What surprises me about how much I like IPS is that I really didn't like Kate Harper, Mary McCormack's character in the later seasons of "The West Wing," and a lot of it was because of her acting style. But it seems to work well for IPS. And "The Middleman" is just plain fun. I wish it was pulling in better ratings.

Comments

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!

Yeah, we lost power Friday morning at about 6:35, but it was back well before I got home from work. Sunday's was more annoying, since we were home through the whole thing. NStar blamed it on "inclement weather," which, I will grant them, we were having both times. But one would think that in Boston they'd be sure to try to protect the electrical lines against inclement weather (because it's not like we never get inclement weather around here). Friday's outage was immediately preceded by a loud "BOOM!" from the vicinity of the transformer at the corner of Fuller and Winchester.

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

Which transformer, iirc, is ALWAYS failing, or being replaced, or something.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Actually, it hasn't gone *KABOOM* in about four years or so. Which I guess isn't all *that* long, but it's still not so bad.