Power
Sitting in candlelight, the power is off for the whole block, apparently. Good thing we went out to dinner this evening. Don't know quite when it went out. A lovely rainy evening to mellow out and be glad I have quite a few beeswax candles, and a very good flashlight.
We keep the flashlight in the drawer with the drugs. The usual kinds a good nurse keeps, for pain and inflammation, gas and diarrhea and GI upset, as well as my migraine meds. So, when I get up at night with my head in a vice, I can find and open the imitrex. Which also makes it very easy to find the flashlight when the lights are out. This is in a kitchen drawer, since bathrooms get too warm and humid.
Maintaining my calm mood at work. Staying relaxed helps me as well. But I did have someone tell me they could tell I had my "stressed look on" when I was in no way stressed - at all. I told her as much, not quite sure she believed me entirely. Rather like when, as a kid, I got accused of being angry or "pouting" when I was just thinking, or had just drifted off. My father, in particular, yelled at me if he caught me reading, since he hated whatever look I got on my face then. And he just minded my reading, which was bad on him since I read anything I could get my hands on. Bad on me too, but in a different way.
Really hard to see much, with just candles. The computer screen is lighter, glad it's a laptop. I keep wanting to check websites or email, and have to remember there are no Internet Fairies to magically bring my connection over the air. No, the router needs electrical power. Sigh.
Felt awful having to tell an intelligent friend that the multiple forward email was a scam. This is so human, of course, to be so smart, yet hold irrational beliefs. We just cannot stop the stupidity in anyone, often not even in ourselves, however hard we try. But we really do have to try. Actually, the people who are aware of their own areas of idiocy are usually in better shape than the ones who are sure they are brilliant and always right. The latter have no chance at all of improvement.
I'm working on some of the suggestions, worry not. herhimnbryn's are in the work. She, though, gave me tasks that last weeks. The sky photos from this evening were 15 minutes late, but will look exactly the same, since all that is visible is thick grey.
More when we have power, saving it for now.
Update, this is why. A traffic accident near 650 South 200 East at 6:40 p.m. affected a substation, resulting in a power outage for 1,078 customers for two hours.
We keep the flashlight in the drawer with the drugs. The usual kinds a good nurse keeps, for pain and inflammation, gas and diarrhea and GI upset, as well as my migraine meds. So, when I get up at night with my head in a vice, I can find and open the imitrex. Which also makes it very easy to find the flashlight when the lights are out. This is in a kitchen drawer, since bathrooms get too warm and humid.
Maintaining my calm mood at work. Staying relaxed helps me as well. But I did have someone tell me they could tell I had my "stressed look on" when I was in no way stressed - at all. I told her as much, not quite sure she believed me entirely. Rather like when, as a kid, I got accused of being angry or "pouting" when I was just thinking, or had just drifted off. My father, in particular, yelled at me if he caught me reading, since he hated whatever look I got on my face then. And he just minded my reading, which was bad on him since I read anything I could get my hands on. Bad on me too, but in a different way.
Really hard to see much, with just candles. The computer screen is lighter, glad it's a laptop. I keep wanting to check websites or email, and have to remember there are no Internet Fairies to magically bring my connection over the air. No, the router needs electrical power. Sigh.
Felt awful having to tell an intelligent friend that the multiple forward email was a scam. This is so human, of course, to be so smart, yet hold irrational beliefs. We just cannot stop the stupidity in anyone, often not even in ourselves, however hard we try. But we really do have to try. Actually, the people who are aware of their own areas of idiocy are usually in better shape than the ones who are sure they are brilliant and always right. The latter have no chance at all of improvement.
I'm working on some of the suggestions, worry not. herhimnbryn's are in the work. She, though, gave me tasks that last weeks. The sky photos from this evening were 15 minutes late, but will look exactly the same, since all that is visible is thick grey.
More when we have power, saving it for now.
Update, this is why. A traffic accident near 650 South 200 East at 6:40 p.m. affected a substation, resulting in a power outage for 1,078 customers for two hours.
Posted by Zhoen on Tuesday, April 14, 2009
10 comments:
I seriously love snopes.com.
I am frequently accused of having certain attitudes or thoughts at home, by the expression on my face, and I hate it. I dont know what the solution is.
My face cant lie.
I had always hoped that this might be a good thing. But maybe not. Surely one's thoughts should be private?
You can't win when you're criticised for your facial expression when concentrating. Some time ago I was criticised for being 'impassive', so I made myself facially mobile which was apparently even more annoying - and exhausting!
Dale,
Me too. Mostly to send other people to when they assure me urban legends are truth.
Rosie,
Some folks presumptuously think they are mind readers, and prefer to tell us what we are thinking rather than just ask a simple question, then believe our answer.
RR,
I don't see what is wrong with impassive. Perfectly noble expression - impassive is.
I wonder which is worse, impassive or vacant.
Ah, yes, Phil. Good point!
I always used to be told (by strange men in the street) to cheer up. They don't do that any more. Instead people say "you look tired" when I feel ok or "you look really well" when I feel awful. There must be some kind of badge we could wear.
Whenever we had a substitute teacher at school they'd always ask me if I was feeling unwell. A side-effect of being pale and slender I suppose.
PP,
I tend to think a lot of people would prefer vacant to "deep in thought."
RtheS,
Most folks just need to keep their judgements to themselves and not make personal remarks to strangers. If only we could stop them, but of course, we can't. One technique I've heard proposed, but haven't used, is to look confused at that kind of remark and say, "wow." And young women tend to get this much more than men, although I think even that is less socially accepted than when we were young.
P,
Yeah, I got that as a kid too. Although being next to the window and the radiator in the winter did leave me feeling generally unwell.
One of the benefits of getting older is one no longer has to put up with strange men telling you you should smile for their benefit because that's what young women are for, to be pleasing and decorative and beam in their direction to make them feel good, and not have anything going on inside their heads which might cause them to look otherwise. I don't know if young women still get it.
Funnily enough, I think now I quite often go around looking cheerful and benign without trying to either.
I have been guilty of it myself with Tom, reading negative things in his face, usually regarding myself. which he assures me are not there at all. He's just a grumpy-looking bugger...
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