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Home sick second day in a row. Tonsils only size of golf balls today; v. great improvement over yesterday's grapefruit. Swallowing hurts.

At least for the time being, apartment has water. Sort of. Yesterday city turned it off for v. necessary rooting about in local drainage ditch. Was supposed to be back on at 3:00. Was not back on at 3:00. Was not back on at 4:00. Was not back on at 5:00. Called rental management office. Management office useless. Fluttered hands in effete manner to indicate helplessness. Staff sodded off at usual hour despite ongoing no-water situation. City trucks showed up around 7:00. City crews fluttered hands in a more manly manner to indicate manly helplessness. Went out in search of restaurant with working loo we could eat dinner in on Valentine's Day without prior reservation. Ho.

On return from dinner, City crew appeared to be running garden hoses from fire hydrant. V. mysterious. Building filled with random knockings and gurglings. At midnight, crew knocked on doors to ask if we had water. Faucet produced something half-hearted but definitely wet. Apologies all around but will fix rest of way in morning. Ho ho.

Yesterday also tried run to library to return late book. Car emitted clicky dead-battery noise.

P.S.

Still not king.

P.P.S.

Did not in fact eat dinner in restaurant loo.
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Ah, the joys of modern life in the electrified world. First thing I did once the power finally came back on was turn on the stove and start heating water for a nice big pot of hot tea. We had been without electricity for 34 hours, when it finally flicked back on at 11:00 this morning.

34 Hours Without Juice, The Gory Details )

Oh, and as you might be guessing from this post, my computer's not dead, after all. It seems the power supply overheated but did not burn out, during that power spike. We went out to CompUSA and got a pair of cheap UPSes, and each household computer system is on its own now, so maybe they're a little better buffered against flutters and spikes in the electricity. So we get a little smarter every time something goes wrong.
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I'm not sure the title pertains to this post. I'm not sure it doesn't.

Long kvetch about The Morning So Far )

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