all strapped up

Just a quick note to let y'all know that Bob and I got power back on Saturday afternoon. Earlier in the day, my neighbor had come by to alert me to an Entergy truck on the next block. I got the Entergy guys to come by, but they said they couldn't do anything because we had a pipe that needed strapping down. The Alpha guy, whose nametag read "Slim," said that if he had gotten our work order, he would have just driven by because of this blatant violation of energy protocol. This brought up a disturbing theory: perhaps our three weeks without power weren't because of Katrina, but because of our sadly unstrapped state.

So after the Entergy truck left without fixing anything, I broke some dishes over my head and called Bob. He picked up the $1.50 worth of hardware and took the five minutes to strap the pipe down. We then put in a new work order. An hour later, an Entergy truck came by and we were rolling! Yeeee----haw!

Of course, it was only a matter of hours before the entire neighborhood lost power due to a bout of rain. So instead of watching TV, we went to bed. Thus another usual day in an unusual place drew to its close.