Once Mrs. Paco and I got organized,things became quite manageable. The basement is cool, we have found reliable sources of ice, and have rediscovered the pleasures of Scrabble and gin rummy. The power may be out until Friday, and typing on a smart phone is an extraordinarily tedious job, so posting will continue to be light.
Thanks for your good wishes and the updates on the outside world (which appears to be continuing its headlong rush to perdition).
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Terrific news. Great to see the fingertips.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that y'all are cool(ish) with plenty of ice.
ReplyDeleteBasements are indeed cool -- root cellars are a very old means of storing food for long periods. I wish I had a basement to retreat to, at times!
ReplyDeleteSounds like matters are well in hand. Unless Mrs. Paco catches you cheating at gin rummy,
Basements down here would be more properly referred to as an in-house swimming pool. It makes my bank account get all woozy at the thought of how the property tax people would go after something like that. I expect they would attack it like an alligator going after one o' those lil' poodle dogs.
ReplyDeleteAnd here in the outer world, yep, the conclusion seems to be that we're goin' to hell in a handbasket, and I would have preferred an Escalade.
The thought just occured to me that Paco & Mrs. Paco could be on the cutting edge of "societal evolution", to borrow from Rush.
ReplyDeleteHow? If Obeyme gets reelected, electric rates will skyrocket to the point that all but the richest will be living under self-imposed brownouts, or blackouts. Or, at some point, government imposed rationing of electric power.
Apparently, Ontario Hydro is now working down your way.
ReplyDeleteCheers
Yeah, Florida Power and Light is workin' up there now, too.
ReplyDeleteWhile I sit on the outside of the disaster zone, and don't care to second guess what's really happening there, it's telling that we are getting the usual post-disaster response complaints: Too little, too slow.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I've read, the responses by the various utilities (save in the state of Maryland) has been good for a no-notice event. Nothing was staged (as would happen for a hurricane), yet things are getting fixed. "Booyah!", says I!
But, of course, noted expert on everything, David Frum, steps in with a boatload of animal waste. I'd try to parse this, but he's so incoherent that his premises sound like extracts from an Al Gore PowerPoint file.
The only reason anyone still calls Frum a conservative is because they are too polite to call him a liar to his face.
JeffS; I suspect he lost you at "...as the planet warms..." but he does say down towards the end that so called stimulus money has produced no lasting benefit to the country.
ReplyDeleteThat should be worth an upgrade from animal waste to poopoo.
Mirroring Rinardman...
ReplyDeleteSee how easy it is to adapt to Commie...er... Obama's energy policy?
You and Mrs. Paco are heroes helping to save the planet.
So glad to hear you and the Mrs are coping and I hope you do not have to wait until Friday for your power. Have a very Happy 4th!
ReplyDeleteGood to hear you're surviving in somewhat comfort, Mr. Paco sir. Ohio crews would have been there helping out, but they're busy fixing things here (north and east of us was pretty bad, I understand).
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing more likely to make one grateful for the benefits of civilization than their absence.
"That should be worth an upgrade from animal waste to poopoo."
ReplyDeleteProbably. But let's see what his next column says first, in case he backslides.