My VD morning in 500 words or less
My alarm went off at 6:45 am as usual. I didn't even snooze once. Having been rather grouchified about the whole weather situation, I went to bed early (for me) and got a decent night of sleep. I got up as normal and headed for the kitchen, as I reached around to turn on the kitchen light I thought "That's weird, I always leave the bathroom light on why is it..." (click) (click, click, click) AWESOME! No power!
So, I fumble into the living room (keep in mind I just moved so there's s#!t strewn everywhere) and grab my light and rechargeable battery out of my tool kit. I look at the thermostat. Gas heat rocks. Too effin bad the thermostat runs on electricity! It's colder than sixty degrees in here (I had begun to figure that one out on my own).
Call the power company. I'm the first call they've had(!?!). Within five minutes the power is back on. She must have just had to flip a friggin' switch. I heard my neighbors next door bitchin' before I called. Morons. One of them has to have a cel.
Proud of myself, I boot up Kompy and start assessing the situation. It's 12 degrees with a wind chill of -4 outside. Very nice. Hmmm....Miami's web site won't come up. I try calling the switchboard. No dice. Hmmmm....Well, I guess this qualifies for a non-emergency call to the campus cops.
"Hello, Miami Police department, dispatcher (name withheld). We have no power. How can I help you?"
Well, there's my answer pretty much right there. Turns out we're on plan B until 10 AM which means I get paid for two hours of farting around and generally doing nothing productive. Sweet!
So, daddy gets a big waffle and bacon breakfast and an additional twenty minutes nap before he even has to get ready to leave. I packed up, got out of the house and marched to Starf__ks.
Anyone who knows me knows this is significant. I hate Starf__ks. But, I was NOT going to face the day without hot coffee. Cold Diet Dew wasn't gonna cut it. Let me tell you, the extra two blocks up hill was plenty worth that hot Venti no fat mocha. Oh, and Starf__ks didn't open until 9:30 the weather was so bad!
Got to work right at 10:00 AM and no boss in site. YES! Not a bad start to mah VD.
So, I fumble into the living room (keep in mind I just moved so there's s#!t strewn everywhere) and grab my light and rechargeable battery out of my tool kit. I look at the thermostat. Gas heat rocks. Too effin bad the thermostat runs on electricity! It's colder than sixty degrees in here (I had begun to figure that one out on my own).
Call the power company. I'm the first call they've had(!?!). Within five minutes the power is back on. She must have just had to flip a friggin' switch. I heard my neighbors next door bitchin' before I called. Morons. One of them has to have a cel.
Proud of myself, I boot up Kompy and start assessing the situation. It's 12 degrees with a wind chill of -4 outside. Very nice. Hmmm....Miami's web site won't come up. I try calling the switchboard. No dice. Hmmmm....Well, I guess this qualifies for a non-emergency call to the campus cops.
"Hello, Miami Police department, dispatcher (name withheld). We have no power. How can I help you?"
Well, there's my answer pretty much right there. Turns out we're on plan B until 10 AM which means I get paid for two hours of farting around and generally doing nothing productive. Sweet!
So, daddy gets a big waffle and bacon breakfast and an additional twenty minutes nap before he even has to get ready to leave. I packed up, got out of the house and marched to Starf__ks.
Anyone who knows me knows this is significant. I hate Starf__ks. But, I was NOT going to face the day without hot coffee. Cold Diet Dew wasn't gonna cut it. Let me tell you, the extra two blocks up hill was plenty worth that hot Venti no fat mocha. Oh, and Starf__ks didn't open until 9:30 the weather was so bad!
Got to work right at 10:00 AM and no boss in site. YES! Not a bad start to mah VD.
Labels: bacon, cold, crappy weather, Diet Dew, power outage, Starbucks, Valentines, waffles
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