Stupid Power Outages…

I had yesterday all planned out. I was going to go out and see if I could located something to prevent my fish from being sucked up into the filter again as well as a few more books and a shower head…It was a very eclectic shopping trip you see. After that I had one activity planned and that was to watch Apollo 13. I haven't seen it in a while and I've never seen it in widescreen with 5.1 sound and it's one of my favorite movies, so I got it from netflix and was going to watch it.

I left here around noon, got back around 2-3 and just as I was getting ready to start the movie a huge storm came through through. Sheets of rain, lots of wind, the works. Just as the storm died down the power flickered and died.

Crap.

I started reading one of the books I bought (Centaur Aisle…part of the Xanth series) and after a half hour I called the power company. Their automated message said that they were going to have the power back by 5:45pm, so I figured I'd tough it out . 5:45 passes and still no power. By this time I've read about 50 pages into my book, played several games of solitaire  and installed the new shower head. Therefore I was running out of stuff to do.

I went over to my parents for some food since my stove refuses to work with no power and they have a gas grill over there and to play a game of Monopoly which I lost very quickly. Stupid Railroads…

After that I went over to some friends who had power to escape for a bit because the power company was giving a 6am estimate. And then I got home from there and the power was back on, but the internet was dead. Arrgh! Thankfully it's all working now.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need go watch a movie before the power goes out again.

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