Monday 6th October

My word, I have been busy today.  Last night there was a severe thunderstorm which affected, first of all, the computer, it knocked out the power strip.   Following, is a blow by blow account of the rest of the day, which you might find a bit boring but it helps me process events.  You can always skip over it and come back tomorrow.

 

The local downtown computer place is very helpful, and they didn't want to have to come out and charge me $85 to fix something I could do myself.  So I took the computer in, and it worked fine when they connected it up at the shop (great relief, I feared something dire had happened to the hard disk) Then they suggested I get a new power strip, so I went to Staples, and although it was needed because the old one had been knocked out, it didn't resolve the problem.   It was then suggested the fault may be in the electric outlet in the wall, and I should try plugging a blender or something into it to see if it worked, and it didn't. 

 

The next step was moving it all to another outlet, but by then I was ready to pay $85 to have someone come out and take care of it all for me, so computer guy came and moved it to another outlet on the same wall;  it all worked, we thought everything was resolved, I gave him a cheque, he went on his merry way.............then a little while later, not only does the computer go dead, but it makes loud banging noises.    Computer guy comes straight back and everything is moved to another wall.  It is a blessing that there are abundant sockets in every room.

 

As if all this wasn't bizarre enough, the television was also making weird noises, and tonight when I turned the washing machine on, they both went bang and stopped simultaneously.  I'll ring Mark in the morning.

 

I kept asking myself all day when did life become such hard work.

I did take a bit of time away from the computer to stop by Emmanuel and helped make up the sack lunches for the homeless.

 

Each sack contains - if I remember rightly - a bottle of water; can of Vienna sausages; container of apple sauce (yes I know, that's weird, the first time I encountered it I was looking round for the pork chop) either chicken or tuna in a can with crackers; pkt of sweet biscuits; pkt of biscuits filled with peanut butter; and some lemonade crystals to put in the water.

 

The homeless come to the window between 11.30 and 12.30 and a sack is passed out to them.