Am I glad that's over with!

Monday, December 29, 2008 Filed in: Blog stuff, My Life

I'm back!

Last Monday, both our power and phone/DSL lines were severed by falling trees, which themselves were the result of the tremendous winter storm that had blanketed Oregon. We were quite literally trapped in our house for the better part of a week, the road having been blocked by a dozen of those damnable trees that cut us off from our blessed utilities:

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Power came back on last Friday, we made it to town on Saturday (after spending a couple days with the chainsaw), and the phone company fixed their lines this morning. Hooray!

When the 'net connection first went away, I kept up with the email flood on my iPhone. That lasted until sometime Tuesday, when the AT&T wireless internet service disappeared, followed soon after by the cell service itself. (I suspect that the nearest cell tower - actually, the only tower - simply depleted it's backup batteries after being deprived of mains electricity.) Cell service came back on late Thursday, but by then my mailbox was so full that managing it on the iPhone was just futile.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have 429 emails to process (plus a whole week of Tam, Ahab, Uncle, and Marko to catch up on!)

-=[ Grant ]=-
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