Another Short Electric Post...

 

I don't have a lot of time left this morning to do much of a post.  The electric company replacing our power pole decided to make it a 2-day job.  They seemed surprised there were rocks in the ground.  That's all this place is; red dirt & rock.  A hole that should've taken them 30 - 40 minutes, took several hours & then they decided to come back to finish up this morning.   They brought things to dig & bore, but nothing to break rock.

It should all be done soon.  I had to put off things for this & I'm still running late.  More tomorrow. take care.

Cya...

Noisy Stress...

 

Last evening was stressful.  The power went out.  It was a circuit that needed replacing.  That was the same thing they said after the micro burst & it took them almost 2 days to get fixed.  They gave an estimate of 2+ hours & the clock started.  I hate these things.  I can't do anything & there's food in the fridge/freezer that could go bad.  Everytime a power issue happens there's a chance something like a microwave or computer may never work again.

We decided to head out to Fort Smith & burn some time.   Luckily, when we got back the power had been restored.  We mostly rely on wifi for phone stuff.  We found out 5G is way slower & eats your battery.  Probably not news to anyone who's being using a smart phone for longer than us.

It rained off & on last night.  Then this morning the trash man came.  The city street department people also came.  So the trash & the brush as both gone.  But, they were both really loud & early this morning.   My sleep wasn't the best due to stress & noise.

It'd be nice if things would settle down for a bit.  Take care.

Cya...

Countdown & Uggh...

 

This is the final week of my birth year.  After that, it's a full year older.  There are some tentative plans.   They're rather soft & loosely defined, right now they need to be.  It's not much, but I have a lot going on next week & there really isn't much I want to do at the moment.  I'd love to go see a movie, but that requires 2 things, less disease ridden idiots & a movie I actually want to see.  Neither of those things are going to  happen by next week.

I've not felt great for about a month.  It  started with the microburst & then the fallout from it.  Besides just the power outage issues,  there was the actual fallout.  Trees, power poles/lines, parts of houses littered the streets.  The debris hung around for week as crews tried to clean it up.  Some of it is still here.  Then came the burning.  Then came the mold, mildew & whatever else was on those things getting into the air.  I've felt a little allergy off to full on sick ever since.

Yesterday, every neighbor mowed.  Then our guy showed & mowed our lawn.   I was already having sinus/allergy issues.  There's been a lot of little nose bleeds & digestion issues.   This just  made  things  worse.  I woke in the middle of the night.  It wasn't  a full on panic, but I was anxious & stressed.  It took me forever to get back to sleep.  That's the 1st stress  night I've had in awhile.  I'm still spent from it.  I'm glad we don't anything to do today. Yesterday was allergy ridden & stressful.  Hopefully today is better.

Cya..

1st August Saturday...

 

We've made it almost a full week into August without a power glitch of some kind.  Great, but we shouldn't have to act so amazed a service we pay for actually works.  It's not OG&E's workers.   It's their corporate mentality that they should do as little as possible.  They will only do the bare minimum to keep the power on.  Unless they can hike their rates astronomically, they'll never do more.  Even then, they wouldn't do all that was needed.  OG&E has some good people, just no where near the top.

Cya...

Early Post...

 

I'm posting way early, it's 1 AM.  The power went out again.  It's back for now & I hope it stays on.  Just in case, here's this post.   This shit is old. OG&E needs to get it together.

That's it for now, take care.

Cya...

Still Not...

 

We still haven't caught up with everything since the storm.  We'll have most of the outside errands done today.  But there's still more to clear out of the freezer.  Some of that will have to wait until closer to trash day.  We don't want a lot of meat sitting outside that long attracting things.  So, by Wednesday that should be handled.   

Most importantly we still haven't completely recovered from this mess.  This was a rough bout of crap.   I bet a lot of people are going to be off their game for a long time to come.

There still weren't articles worth looking at, so this is it for now.  Take care.

Cya...

At Home...

 

We're back home & I'm glad  to be out of that hotel.  It's a former Days Inn that someone let go to pot.  The wi-fi & AC were good, everything else was pretty off.   The hard ass beds were horrible.

So we're back & now it's time to clean out the fridge & freezer.  Lost almost everything. There goes a lot of  cash.  I hate our power company.  The street level people are fine, but the others are best useless.  These power outages happen every Summer.  This company could do a lot better by its  customers.

That's all for now, take care.

Cya...

Maybe Today...

 

Spent the night in motel.  It was a rough night of sleep for me.  I hope this ends today.  I just want the electricity to do what's it's supposed to do.   Even after it's on, this means cleaning out the fridge & freezer.  There goes $ we didn't need to lose.

That's all for now, fingers crossed  all that.

Cya...

No Power...

 

Barely a post & it's late.  We lost power due to a storm.  Barely slept last night.   The power is still out & they aren't sure when it'll be back.  So this it for now.

Take care.

Cya...

Whole Lotta Rain...

 

It rained a lot.  According to the sites, including 1 that's usually overly conservative, we had over 3.5" of rain.  We've already had over .5" since midnight.  The rain is supposed to end by early afternoon.  By that point, this system will have  dumped over 4" of rain on the local area.   Other areas got a lot more.   They also had tornadoes, wind damage & up to softball size hailstones.  There might be some local flooding, but it  sounds like we got off light.

Other than that, there's nothing going on here.  We had several power blips last night.  Trash went out.  That's about it  for us, take care.

Cya...

Again Stress...

Sorry for the broken record routine.  Yesterday was no better than before.  It started out a drearfest & then moved on to worse.  My brother's health situation continues & my sisters are freaking out.  I have to wonder where that was when I had anything go wrong in my life?  

Then the rain began.  We got over an inch, most of which fell quickly.   Our power went out just after 4.  It took over 7 hours to be fixed.  The house was very sticky & uncomfortable.  The day was a giant frustration suck.  I think most of what was in the fridge & freezer is fine.  I'll get more milk to be safe.  Local milk never makes it to the expiration date & this didn't help.

Luckily the sun is shining this morning.  The chill is here.  I woke to the 50s.  Midweek we were in the 90s, a week more & we could have our 1st brush with temps in the 30s.  That sucks!  I hate Fall!  I wind up with more allergies, sunlight deprived & temperature shocked.  Autumn is awful.

Cya...

Foul Morning...

I hate this area.  If I got to move & this town was set ablaze, I'd roast marshmallows on it's burning carcass.  I don't even like marshmallows, but I'd do it just for spite.

At 6:45 this morning a crack of thunder woke me.  Then almost instantly the power dies.  To add considerable insult to the matter.  I look out the window & every house not on my immediate block has power.  OG&E SUCKS MAJOR ASS!!! At least once a year (sometimes more) this happens.  Our power dies while everyone else chugs merrily along.

Sorry for the rant, I'll  try to do better tomorrow. (No promises)  Take care.

Cya...

Need Easy...

July hasn't been hard so far, just somewhat irksome.  That was until yesterday.  The power went out just after noon.  I was instantly drenched by the humidity.  We opted to go out.  At least there'd be AC in the car.  Luckily, by the time we got home, the power was restored.  I hate our power company.  Our electricity goes goes out & flickers all the time for reason.  There was nothing weatherwise going on yesterday, but it still went down.  What gives?

Any way, a nice, no f'ery day would be appreciated.

Cya...

Outage, Stress & Yick...

May has not been easy month for me, just a continuation of this messed up Spring's drudgery.  It's only added to my SAD.  I'm trying to keep myself going, but this season has been rough.  

I went to a specialist appointment, basically for them to call for a redo, whenever they get themselves around to it.  I have no more info on the stroke situation.  Guess, I should've known better than better than to trust a local MRI.  

Then I get sick as I'm getting off the statin.  The weather sucks & my body is really stiff & achy.  Sometimes painfully so.  

Yesterday, there was a severe storm in the area.  Because Oklahoma can't just rain, it has be huge gusting, lightning filled, hail dumping thunderstorms or tornadoes.   This 1 knocked out the power for hours.  I didn't need the stress.  I'm  exhausted.

I guess my rant's over for now.  I'm tired & cranky.  I really don't see any end to this crap soon.  I hope everyone else is doing better.  Take care.

Cya...

Not A Great Morning....

I woke up tired, sore & anxious.  I planned on going to bed earlier last night, but that didn't happen.  About the time I was heading off to my room, the electricity went out.   There went the fans to deal with the overnight humidity.  I looked outside & the power company was already at the pole.  They'd caused the outage, to replace a transformer.  It only affected 6 houses, but they couldn't be bothered to knock & warn people.  It didn't last long, but it was time I could've been asleep.

During this, my roomie told me her phone has "no service."  When the lights came back on, I called ATT.   They tried to reset the phone.  It didn't work.  They think the sim card is dead.  They're supposed provide a replacement.   Hopefully, the ATT store will be open today or that will have to wait until tomorrow.  Here's hoping I don't have to completely replace it.  I'm sure my roomie's sort of hoping that's the case.  She has no love for these phones.  

I'll find out in a bit, what will happen to the phone.  Then I have to go shopping.   This was not a good night.

CYa...

Stressful Hours...

For the last several Fridays, our routine has been upended.  It's usually Suddenlink screwing everything up.   Last night it was the weather.  A storm blew out our power for a while.  Not long, but enough to stress me out again.  I'm to the point where I just can't handle it.

I don't have much in this world.  If the power & the net is working, I can distract myself.   I don't focus on it.  I can go about my life, such as it is.   Without them, I realize, they're about all I have.  

I know some people in the world, don't even have that much.  It may sound callous, but I don't care.  I can't do anything about their situation.  I can barely do anything about my own.   I won't be apologetic for wanting what I can get.   I can be sympathetic for others, but I won't sacrifice myself for people I don't even know.   That statement isn't at all PC, but it is true.  In this life I have my roomie,  my cats & myself.  That's it.  Those are the things I care about.  

My body is still reacting to last night's stress out.  I'm tired & worn out.  I don't need much,  but it would very nice if everything would stop pecking at me for a while.  I need to recuperate & recharge.  I can't do that if I'm constantly stressing.

I hope your day goes well.  On the bright side, we got a lot of rain, about an inch.   Take care.

Cya...

Early & Quick...

Not much of a post this morning.  But after several days of rain totalling a little over 5", issues are starting to show.  The power & the net have been flickering.  I'll post this just in case we lose 1 or both.  The rain is supposed to end this afternoon & let this mess move out of the area.  I hope so, this is quite enough rain for the end of February.   

Until tomorrow.

Cya...

Somehow...

It stormed here last night.  Some of the thunderstorms got a little intense.  That's when a strange thing happened.  My roomie wrote about it earlier.  She noticed all the lights on the block below us went out.  It was weird.   

I don't think I've ever been in this town when someone else's power went out that ours didn't.  But we made it through the night with power & internet.  Something must've overlooked us.  Still, I'm happy we kept our lights on & net going.  

That was a 1st for us.  

Cya...

Another Short Post...

Sorry about this, but it's another short post.  I'm still tired as hell from yesterday.   I hate it when the power goes out.  It's usually just a few minutes, but still it's annoying. It was out over 17 hours yesterday.   I'm still trying to determine what stuff in my fridge may have died.  It didn't get opened & the house was cool, so there's a chance most of it survived .  What really pisses me off, is every time our power goes out for any length of time, it's always the same pole & transformer.   Can't they figure out why that 1 keeps going out & fix it?  

I've got to get around.  I've got a dentist appointment later. This is it for now.

Hope you doing better than me.

Cya...

Recovering...

Night before last I didn't sleep hardly at all.  I was too worried about how much food & $ I was going to lose due to the stupid power outage.   I'm still not sure how much exactly, but over a $100 at least.   I'll probably not know everything, until I try to fix something & it smells off.  This could easily run up to $200.  Cash I seriously don't have to fix this mess up.  I already had to fork out over a $100 to get a new microwave that died during this.  

I hate OG&E.  They never have enough people to fix things.    We called repeatedly & got nowhere.  I finally found a number & got a real-live person & exaggerated the extent of the damage to a nearby pole that was leaning due a tree falling on the power lines.  They got there & started fixing it pretty soon after that.  Turns out my stretching of things wasn't that far off.  I couldn't see the pole was actually cracked & probably near cracking.  They just needed a nudge with a bulldozer.

We actually got a lot done yesterday,  None of which was sleeping for me.  I slept last night, but I'm still tired.   I'm slowly working through the fridge to clean out the bad.  I'm learning how to use the new microwave.  Mostly, I'm tired & achy. 

I seriously hope everyone else is doing better.

Cya...