The Day The Power Died (10m)

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Breakfast: Brown Cow Peach Yogurt (170); blueberries (25); oatmeal w/flax (210); raisins (120)

Lunch: Banana (110)

Dinner: 1 oz. almonds (170); wheat pasta (400); two hard-boiled eggs (140); salad greens (20); olive oil (360)

Drinks: Two coffee (100); one Propel (25); two Pilsner Urquell (300)

Walked 20,900+ steps

2008 - 13,000 (486,150) AU=9 (214)
2009 - 20,900 (752,900) AU=2 (106.5)

31-1/0-13

Well today marks exactly 50 years since supposedly "The Music Died" which is when Buddy Holly and a couple other music stars died in that Iowa plane crash. I'm too young to remember that but I will remember that today is the day the power died (again). Got a distress call from the wife around 1PM that our power once again went out. Thinking about what happened in December when we lost power for 4 days and had our basement flooded, we both dashed from work to the Home Depot (meeting there at exactly the same time which is a little weird) and bought a 5000-watt generator. Got home and started setting it up with the oil and gas and getting all the electrical connections made. Then just as I was about to go get the generator fired up, the power comes back on!

Well with my luck, I just spent $700 for a 200-lb paperweight because maybe we'll never lose power again and never get to actually use that generator! (Which actually, wouldn't be a bad thing because it sucks losing your power for any length of time).

Woke up this morning feeling kind of sore and run-down in a general kind of way. But got through my morning walk and took the car in for some regular maintenance (rear brakes and oil change). Instead of going to main office, I went towards the north office where I walked the neighborhood streets for a while in the light snow that was falling. Then my wife called and all hell broke loose with the power loss situation. After that mini-crisis, I decided to work the rest of the day out of the house, which isn't as good as it sounds because I ended up working until 8PM. Still, got plenty of walking in and still at least kept up with work.

Snow got heavier as the day went on and as I type this, still coming down but only a 2-3 inches so far despite it snowing steadily since about 9AM.