So I was without power for the better part of the day and the good part of the night today because of a really bad storm that swept through here during the middle of the day and took out two power lines near our place with fallen branches. The last time we had a really big power outage was about nine or so years ago during my second year in this ( Read more... )

So the goddamn water heater in the closet of my apartment is leaking. It's led to the carpet around the bathroom and most of the living room being fucking soaked. Didn't have much luck calling Ann because my cell phone service is a piece of shit, but because I talked to several other people, Don, the guy who handles maintenance around here, got ( Read more... )

Last night's power failure was supposed to be the end of things. As usual, I was wrong ( Read more... )

Last night at around midnight or so, as I was halfway into my Hamburger Helper, the goddamned power went out ( Read more... )

After the very nice Fourth of July from last year, I was looking forward to taking in another fireworks show yesterday. Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other plans ( Read more... )

So a big nasty storm hit Melrose yesterday afternoon and left us without power for the rest of the day and well into the night. Not a fucking fun experience. What especially pissed me off was that the store down the hill apparently closes during power failures, which I had to find out about the hard way after my usual long walk from my place to the ( Read more... )

So my fucking kitchen lights are not working. Dad and I went shopping yesterday and bought a two-pack of fluorescent bulbs in addition to my usual groceries. Dad thought that the problem was that one of the bulbs ended up burning out, and when one goes out, the other one does too. We replaced the bulbs and tried turning the lights on again. I ( Read more... )