We Have Power
Life 07/17/2006 |And we’re back up and runnning. Yay!
Jim and Gordon stopped by this morning, with Gordon (the other manager and primary handyman, who’d been out of town this weekend) explaining to Jim just what had gone wrong with our power. Apparently there are two breakers on the troublesome circuit, one of which had popped — which meant that for half of our apartment, outlets that should have been getting 110v were only getting around 80v.
Gordon went down to the basement, flipped a breaker, and suddenly the kitchen lights brightened to full strength. They checked the garbage disposal to make sure it was working properly, then I went around the apartment flipping switches. Everything works!
So, we’ve got a couple hours left before we have hot water, but there should be enough for me to grab a (short) shower before I head off to work.
It’s nice not to come from a broken home. 
“Son Of A Preacher Man” by Dusty Springfield from the album Pulp Fiction (1968, 2:28).
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Cheryl
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Bob
July 17th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
There are so many things we take for granted, that is until we no longer have them and then we understand just how important they are to us.
Life in Juneau Alaska. No…. Life 20 miles outside of Juneau Alaska in the 60’s and early 70’s meant many days a year without water or electricity or BOTH. Even just a couple days means a complete change of lifestyle. I feel for you. I really do.
But rest comfortable in the knowledge that if anything serious does happen and you feel the need to abandon ship you’ll always have a place to land. It might not be a 5 star hotel but its warm and dry and rumor has it I’m a pretty good cook.