The Dark (K)night
I'm horrible at blogging, so I'm going to attempt to make up for my lack of posts by posting a few times now. Plus, I actually have interesting things to write about.
I just turned on the Cubs game Sunday afternoon, hoping to see a winning performance and enjoy the AC and a nice dinner that I was going to cook. A little into the 2nd inning and....
Everything goes dead; all my power. I make a call to the power company to report an outage. They call me back about 10 min later and tell me that no one else in my building has made a report and that it was just me. Trying to find out how this could be, it turns out that I wasn't even supposed to be getting power. When the power company came out in May to start service, they couldn't install the meter because the socket was damaged/missing. Nobody told me of this, but I was getting power so I didn't know the wiser.
I just have to say props to Connecticut Light and Power for having such easy to work with phone receptionists who actually understand about what they do instead of just answering the phone. They told me the only way I could be receiving power is if someone illegally was jumping my power from another source. So, it turns out that for the past 2 months I was getting illegal power. I was assured that it wasn't my fault and that I needed to have the landlord fix the meter socket so that the power company could hook me up. Well, since all this happened on Sunday, the apartment office was closed. I can usually call the phone and get a message with the emergency number, but when I, I didn't get any message. My neighbors didn't know what the number was and none of my paperwork had it listed. My dad even looked on the internet and couldn't find anything.
So, I was stuck in my apartment with no power until Monday when the office opened again. Keep in mind Connecticut has been stuck in a perpetual heat wave for the past few weeks. Rather than roast in my apartment, I decided to go take in a movie; something I haven't done for a long time. I caught the 6pm showing of The Dark Knight. I must say, the movie exceeded the hype. It sounds cliché at this point, but Heath Ledger gave the performance of the century. I honestly believe he created the greatest villain in movie history. I was also pleased to see the Batman series get away from being campy like its predecessors. After the great movie, I went to B Dubs to get a late snack and read for a while. Came back and had to get ready for bed in complete darkness, including taking my insulin shots.
After being rather firm with the director of my rental agency about the illegal dealings they've been doing, I managed to get the head maintenance man to call an electrician and get my power on legitimately. It came on Monday afternoon, but I still don't think it's legitimate since I didn't even call the power company at that point to service my apartment. If I receive bills for the past two months of electrical usage, which would have to be estimated since there was no meter, I'm probably going to have to get lawyers involved to make my landlord cough up the cost.
On a side note, my empathy for all of you in the Quad Cities who got hammered by a storm and don't have power right now, although you guys have it worse than I. Hopefully things can get back to normal before the Bix this weekend and all the subsequent parties.