Thunder and Power Outage
Random thoughts again, as my mind is scattered:
- Due to some severe thunderstorms going through my region, we unfortunately lost power for a few minutes late this morning. The MOST unfortunate aspect of this was that I was very close to being finished with a video lecture I was creating for my students... and unfortunately the platform we are required to use at the U for this purpose streams the material while it is being produced. When the power went out, and then came on a few minutes later (and followed by an ~10 minute restart time for the Internet system we have at home) the file was lost (not autosaved). It was very disheartening to have to redo it again as I was perhaps one minute or so from it being finished.
- It was very warm when I ran this morning at 5:55am. It was already 82 degrees Fahrenheit (28 degrees Celsius) which is not the early morning norm yet in these parts. Usually it has been around 60 degrees F (16 degrees C). And, it was very, very humid and there was a ~20 mph (~32kph) headwind for over half of my run. Nothing particularly wrong with the changes, it was just a rather different running experience than I have been used to lately. My time was a few seconds slower per mile, but not overly significant.
- I have been looking around at some interesting NEW recipes for using Swiss chard (a Swiss Chard and chickpea Spanish influenced dish) and for using tomatillos (a cucumber & tomatillo gazpacho). I am hoping both grow well in the garden this year so I can try these new recipes in addition to more traditional ones I know.
- The dishwasher plastic "doo-dads" have arrived!!!!!! The box is sitting in the garage in "quarantine" until probably Friday, when I can dig in and fix the damn dishwasher!
- My desire, hunger, passion for smoking my pipes is STILL at the VERY STRONG levels it has been for probably the last 10 or so days. I still am not sure why NOW it is feeling so intense. I hope it ebbs back into a lower intensity desire soon. This very strong yearning *is* quite difficult to ignore and I am not sure how much "resolve" or "gumption" I have left in me to refrain.
3 Comments:
So discouraging to lose all that work at the last minute.
When computers were still young and even before the internet, I remember typing a worksheet on my Atari 800. Then the cat went by and dislodged the very easily dislodgeable power supply. Although I am still not a fast typist, I was even slower back in those early days.
Hubby and I are both really like swiss chard
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