Long story short: power went out sometime between 8 am and noon, judging by how freaking hot the previously air-conditioned house was when I woke up at almost 2am after pulling an unplanned all-nighter. No coolth here. Made some phone calls, and prevailed on the kindness of to get an update out to LJ while I booted up and decided what to do next.
0) At about 10:30pm ish, Satruday night, I got the good news that had made his standby flight. Finished my coffee and bun and headed out of SFO, where we'd been parked working on the book until he had to go through the gate area at 9pm-ish for potential boarding. Home by 11:30pm, watered plants and refilled planters, as it was supposed to be hella hot on Sunday, more so than Saturday.
1) Had a quick glass of 'herbal tea' before bed. Tasted different than I expected. Oh, s**t. That was the herbal tea with the rest of the strong green tea in it. Wups.
2) I'll just check something I've been wondering about on the net. Just for a moment.
3) Time passes.
4) Still not sleepy. Maybe this video will help me nod off. I'll just watch 1 episode. OK, two, it was a two-part one.
5) Yes, I'm much sleepier now. Cool. I'll just turn off the living room lights and wander off to bed.
6) (passing the computer) I wonder what happens on this story arc, let me just check real quick.
7) Gracious me-sakes alive. *THAT* wasn't the link I was looking for, though I ought to have known it'd be out there to find.
8) Huh, some of this stuff isn't too bad, actually.
9) When did it get light out? Wups. I'll go to sleep now, crank the AC down a little from 74 to 72 before I do, to pre-load some coolth before everyone cranks theirs up. Jeez, it's already 80 out.
10) Zzzzz.
11) Yawn. OK, rest happened. Good, it's not *too* late, it's only, um, ok, almost 2pm.
12) My head hurts. Drink water copiously.
13) It's too quiet. Oh. Crap.
14) Yes, 86 degrees in here, 100 out there. Did I say 'crap' yet? Drink protein shake, take meds, check on cats. Remind self not to open fridge!
15) Call friend at Coffee Society. There is coolth there.
16) Open windows, turn off everything but one light, check cats again, gather book, pens, laptop, etc. Grab half-can of cold diet soda out of … aiee! I opened fridge! STEEMPY!!
17) Flee ignominiously to cooler climes.
18) Breakfast at Coffee Society– yay, hard boiled eggs and cantelope chunks. Re-meet Ian, meet TR, hi to busily typing (adorable, as always), fun chatting on all & sundry with Jim & Heather.
19) Tried out new colored fine-point sharpie n-pack on cardstock. Too much flow / blot for the kind of smooth lines I like, but just right for pseudo-pointilism in my favorite Abo-alike style. Need to find Pilot Razorpoints in .05 again. Sure, I have drafting markers in .05 to .01, but something about the tips of those seem to catch on paper too much, and can snag up during what should be a long smooth arc. When I'm doing a 'sand painting' type line and dot piece, that can *totally* futz it up. Anyway.
20) Call up our complex's security firm periodically to ask if power is up yet. Time passes.
21) Go out to dinner with other friends, come back home via supermarket, with bag of ice: will put in bin in fridge if power still out. Try to remember where my fluorescent camp lantern is, figure I'll rummage for it at home. Had recharged LED handlight overnight, as I was using it to water garden/flowers at midnight and used it almost up.
22) Lights on in park, good sign. Blinky lights in house indicate power came back on and stayed on since about 5:45pm. Why did idiot security firm say they'd reported no power at about 7pm? See 'idiot' in previous phrase. But they can write a crisp parking ticket if you try overnighting in the guest spaces. Pththt.
23) Crank AC down to max, as house is at 88 when I get home at 9pm. Feed cats, read under AC down-vent. Take out garbage cans for tomorrow. Do load of whites. Ought to vacuum, but no enthusiasm for it.
24) Have big glass of herb tea. Oh s**t. Though after only, um, 4 or so hours of sleep on Friday night, I think I'll be fine. Zoomed up to SFO around 2:30am to fetch a buddy who got stranded by flight delays, body clock woke me way too few hours later.
25) Decide to write this up to share idiocy with all & sundry. Why only stress the triumphs, after all?
26) Wow, I spent way too much time writing this up. If I am writing this slowly, it's SO time to go to bed. It's after 1am close to 2am almost 2:15 am. Blear.
27) Still need to do is change the catbox so it goes out with the Monday trash pickup, and bop outside to put the two big bags of mail/cardboard in the recycle bin. Keys in pocket. Internet, shoo.
28) *Not* going to bring up my email client. Just not. Really.
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