Friday, 28 January 2011 05:31 pm
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deckardcanineI was greatly relieved to find the power back when I returned last night. Still couldn't use the Net from home due to a Comcast outage, but I had other plans to spend the hours anyway. How fortunate that I'd preloaded today's "Downscale".
Judging from the flashing clock, the power had been out for about 23 hours. I was right not to go straight home after work, eating at a restaurant instead.
(As it happens, this restaurant has a waitress who's gotten pretty friendly with me, even when someone else takes my order. Only when I saw her yesterday did I remember her saying she works Thursday nights. Ostensibly, she's singled me out because of the frequency with which I show up. I suspect it's a technique for encouraging future business, partly because she looks attractive.)
This morning, I learned from a housemate that Pepco was slow to respond to the needs of the nursing home where she works. You'd think it a high priority given the respirators and whatnot, but maybe personnel figured the geezers were gonna die soon anyway.
Minutes ago, I learned that my folks' house won't be getting power back until midday Sunday. And here I'd considered visiting their place if mine was still dark and cold.
From what I know, Pepco is the only provider of electricity for the District. If it had competition, we wouldn't have to put up with this response time.
Judging from the flashing clock, the power had been out for about 23 hours. I was right not to go straight home after work, eating at a restaurant instead.
(As it happens, this restaurant has a waitress who's gotten pretty friendly with me, even when someone else takes my order. Only when I saw her yesterday did I remember her saying she works Thursday nights. Ostensibly, she's singled me out because of the frequency with which I show up. I suspect it's a technique for encouraging future business, partly because she looks attractive.)
This morning, I learned from a housemate that Pepco was slow to respond to the needs of the nursing home where she works. You'd think it a high priority given the respirators and whatnot, but maybe personnel figured the geezers were gonna die soon anyway.
Minutes ago, I learned that my folks' house won't be getting power back until midday Sunday. And here I'd considered visiting their place if mine was still dark and cold.
From what I know, Pepco is the only provider of electricity for the District. If it had competition, we wouldn't have to put up with this response time.