Quiet lately.

Another drafts queue ditty!

If you’re one of those select few that make their way to these environs, you might have noticed it has been deathly quiet round these parts of late.

There are a couple of reasons for that of course. First off having the storm hit a few weeks back meant losing power for a week (not really but ti felt longer). During that time I noticed just how much time I spend fucking off on the computer (there I said it). I didn’t feel losing power was a bad thing overall – probably it is something I should do one day a week to get used to it.

My power went off on Monday evening and was off until Friday evening.

I went to bed much earlier than normal.

I read by flashlight.

I read three books and six graphic novels in that span...

I know I wrote this sometime a little after Sandy hit.

That was kind of an interesting week in a way because not having power makes a big impact on you in ways you don’t normally think of.

I took a hit too because I had had work scheduled for that week that wound up getting cancelled because of the storm and if I had had the presence of mind at the time I likely could have applied for some kind of disaster relief but I didn’t.

Even afterward I had hoped to get my roof done but that’s another story involving insurance companies and how they don’t want to pay out claims and threaten to drop you if you file (which kind of makes insurance useless don’t you think?).

That week, it was cold and the Sunday before the storm hit I was running around trying to do my best to patch what I could and found myself in the crawl space hammering away trying to shore up a very week roof. I look at these things as comical experiences, me twisting around trying to come up with some way to prop up a sheet of plywood between rafters, oh the joy!

The day afterward when the power went off I realized I wouldn't have any heat.

I had been down to Home Depot on Sunday and they were all out of wood and Duraflame and anything else I could throw in the wood burning stove that’s in my basement (my house is really quite strange in some ways). I always pass this really huge Garden Center that I had never been in (and if you’re from the area you likely have passed it because it is right off the Saw Mill) and thought to myself just to check and see if they had any firewood.

Well, it turned out I happened on something...

See, they had firewood! And not only did they have it, they had it WAY CHEAPER than it ever is at Home Depot! So for what I would spend for maybe three small bundles of wood at Home Depot I literally filled my entire car UP! I mean I got to units of wood that took me three hand trucks to get into the house and by keeping my downstairs fire going and having the temperature at a very hot 82° the upstairs where I usually am was a decent 65° until the power got restored.

It was a weird week and it only took me three days to figure out I still had hot water even though I didn’t have heat or juice (another long story).

I’m not big on weather things anymore... in the time I’ve been where I am, we had a couple of pretty big snowstorms and besides Sandy we had Floyd which hit us directly (it was the once in a 100 year flood - amazing).

I just want blue skys especially between now and when I can get my roof fixed!