Wow, what a day we had yesterday. The part I really liked was getting in 5.18 miles of walking according to the trusty pedometer. Well, that is not to say I wasn't a little sore this morning but it feels good to move. AND...it was so much warmer than last year. Last year at the kite festival we about froze, this year we did wear our coats but it was pleasant. Lots of little kites and kids having fun. The only thing that disappointed was that the tower on the Old Post Office was closed because of the weather. We had decided to hike over there and go up the tower. It's supposed to be one of the best views in the city, but we could only go to the ninth floor because they were afraid someone might slip. We did see the bell ropes that go to the Congress Bells in the tower and learned a lot about "change ringing" which is different than normal bell ringing.
The fish market was the best. Lots of smelly fish and fish hawkers trying to get our business. There were bushels and bushels of blue crabs so I wish someone would invite us to a crab boil since we don't have the means to do it ourselves. We made due with shrimp, scallops and ocean perch. Not bad.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Weird Outage
So we get home from stake conference last night ravenous because we didn't get a chance to eat before leaving. We are ready to heat up our roasted veggies and veggie soup (do you see a theme here) and chow down. Approaching our apartment we notice that it's really dark in the breezeway--like no light at all. Inside the apartment is very dark except for a dim light from the lamp which we had left on. That's strange, there's no dimmer on that lamp.
I head back for the bathroom and flip on the bedroom light. It goes on just fine. Oh good, Jim thinks, the power is back on. Not so. The power is just fine in the bedroom and attached bathroom but not in the rest of the apartment.
I just want to know that it's not just us, that someone knows about this problem and is on it. So Jim wanders outside for a while and says he really can't tell. So both of us wander outside for a while and a neighbor shows up asking if we are having power issues. He's having the same issues two floors above us.
We decide that the fridge probably ought to be seen to since the power has already been out for two hours at this point. We plug in the fridge using about four extension cords. Actually before the fridge we moved the microwave to the washer plugged it in and moved the toaster to toast some bread then we heated our veggies in the microwave. Jim collected about a dozen candles, many of them tea light and we ate by candlelight on our dining table.
Then we moved the modem and router to the bedroom, plugged in the laptop and looked up a number for the power company. They said a transformer in our very complex had blown up and caught fire. We should have power back by three am. So we watched a little Burn Notice on the computer and went to bed.
When I woke up in the middle of the night, I heard a noise in the kitchen. In our messing around one of us had turned the fan over the stove on and when the power came on, the fan started up. That was better than the TV blaring out at three am which was what I was afraid was going to happen.
So adventures in power ended our day which had included a Wegmans run and a walk in our woods. I liked the walk in the woods.
I head back for the bathroom and flip on the bedroom light. It goes on just fine. Oh good, Jim thinks, the power is back on. Not so. The power is just fine in the bedroom and attached bathroom but not in the rest of the apartment.
I just want to know that it's not just us, that someone knows about this problem and is on it. So Jim wanders outside for a while and says he really can't tell. So both of us wander outside for a while and a neighbor shows up asking if we are having power issues. He's having the same issues two floors above us.
We decide that the fridge probably ought to be seen to since the power has already been out for two hours at this point. We plug in the fridge using about four extension cords. Actually before the fridge we moved the microwave to the washer plugged it in and moved the toaster to toast some bread then we heated our veggies in the microwave. Jim collected about a dozen candles, many of them tea light and we ate by candlelight on our dining table.
Then we moved the modem and router to the bedroom, plugged in the laptop and looked up a number for the power company. They said a transformer in our very complex had blown up and caught fire. We should have power back by three am. So we watched a little Burn Notice on the computer and went to bed.
When I woke up in the middle of the night, I heard a noise in the kitchen. In our messing around one of us had turned the fan over the stove on and when the power came on, the fan started up. That was better than the TV blaring out at three am which was what I was afraid was going to happen.
So adventures in power ended our day which had included a Wegmans run and a walk in our woods. I liked the walk in the woods.
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