The Good, the Good, and the…well, good enough.

I have been trying to stay positive over what really is best described as utility roulette…since December I’ve noticed outlets not working in my house. Had a friend check to see if there was a fire hazard, found out not, decided to leave it alone. (I think I mentioned it earlier.) My Internet is lousy. Etc, etc.

This weekend, the power went out. (I confess, after last week’s water annoyance, I was a bit grousy, then when the power came back on late afternoon on Saturday, I found how how bad it was for others and apologized to God and behaved myself.)

Friday, we used my Laptop to watch one of the Poirot movies. That was a ton of fun…there was no power, and I don’t really love reading by LED. Of course, my laptop died just when the case was about to be solved most cleverly, but you’ll have that.

We took the opportunity to turn off the box, and I changed three outlets.  While it didn’t save me any effort, really, having the power out already (after all I still had to go turn off the box in case my power was magically restored while I was unscrewing the outlet from the wires…) I felt like it saved me trouble in the long run.

We also have a friend coming over and putting in a new box and breakers this Friday, or, rather, the nephew of a friend, (don’t worry, he’s a legit electrician) so my power will be back to perfect. I wish I new a way to prevent the damp from ruining another box…they want to install a switch up stairs, and have me aim a cheap fan at the box and run it every day, but I am less impressed with this solution that I could be. The joys of a dirt cellar. (there are none, actually. It’s the thing I really hate about my house…all dirt cellar, and you can’t really fix it because there are huge boulders of lime stone that jut under the house.)

Sunday Das Internets man called at 7:30 AM. YES. AM. I wanted to kill…and he took apart some things and finally, hopefully for good, fixed my Internet. (At least, I thought so until MONDAY, when it went away again, and I called and told them that I didn’t think they were even connected to me, but they did not believe me…later, I get a call telling me that there was, indeed, an outage. Then it went out AGAIN when I was streaming the first episode of Sherlock (love Sherlock) and I just sat there, reminding myself that no one likes Verizon or Comcast, either.)

Sunday we went and spent the day feeding monkeys and swimming in a mountain lake. We happened to be driving back through Uniontown and wondered why everyone was setting out lawn chairs…and realized that there would be fireworks soon. We happened to have chairs in the car, so we drove to a good place, set up, and sat outside and watched the fireworks.  That was rather lovely.