Tropical Storm \u201cWhatever the Hell it Was Called\u201d blew through here yesterday and I\u2019ve been without power, phone, cable and internet for about thirty hours.\u00a0 One point of clarification, Camera Girl and I only have a land line.\u00a0 I am the last adult male in North America without any sort of cellular phone.\u00a0 Because of this I haven\u2019t seen news, read a blog or even been able to get on OCS since early afternoon on Tuesday.\u00a0 I took a car ride to visit family today and had to make four detours to get through all the downed power lines in my heavily wooded part of the country.\u00a0 But my visit was practical.\u00a0 I wanted to make sure they had running water in the house and were able to keep their refrigerated food cold.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t ask them whether the country was still called America or whether the White House had been repainted black to show sensitivity for hurt feelings.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t even sure exactly how many people in the Northeast were without power.\u00a0 I knew there were a lot locally but how far it extended was completely unknown to me.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s kind of a weird feeling.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t even get on line to do my day job.\u00a0 Luckily the dvd player doesn\u2019t require the internet and so I was able to watch the next episode of Star Trek tonight.\u00a0 It\u2019s the one where Kirk, Spock, Scotty and McCoy go down to a planet and then start aging 30 years per day and Spock convenes a competency hearing and has Kirk declared too senile to captain the Enterprise.\u00a0 It\u2019s wonderful.\u00a0 I\u2019ll write it up soon but what struck me was that I was so grateful for a diversion from the quiet.\u00a0 Well, not exactly quiet.\u00a0 If the air conditioner is off, I can hear the generator cranking away.\u00a0 It\u2019s about as loud as a lawn tractor but hour after hour it really begins to get annoying as a background sound.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not exactly cabin fever.\u00a0 After all the car still runs.\u00a0 I mean, it\u2019s not as if I\u2019m going all Jack Torrance or anything but if Camera Girl starts pulling a Shelley Duvall act around here it won\u2019t be good.\u00a0 In a lot of ways, I\u2019ve always been the caretaker here and nobody better forget it.<\/p>\n
Well anyway, I\u2019ve been thinking about all the bizarre things that have happened in the last six months and I\u2019ve decided we have officially entered into a permanent state of madness.\u00a0 Basically nothing is unthinkable and the odds of the whole human race descending into an irrevocable death spiral seems just as likely as not.\u00a0 And at this point I think I might be willing to take my chances in the new setup.\u00a0 With enough ammunition and gasoline, I could see myself as the next Lord Humungous.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always wanted to be able to threaten to unleash my dogs of war.\u00a0 The only thing is I\u2019ll have to lose some weight. Humungous was pretty fit.<\/p>\n
So that\u2019s where we are.\u00a0 Forced to huddle in our homes afraid to go to the grocery store without a mask because the thought police will turn me in.\u00a0 Working from home because our corporate masters are afraid of being sued for killing us with COVID and now we don\u2019t have electricity, running water, refrigeration or access to mass communication.\u00a0 At this rate pretty soon we\u2019ll be envying the peasants during the black plague because at least they had that guy with the cart collecting the dead.\u00a0 We\u2019ll probably be forced to stockpile our dead until someone figures out a safe way for the garbagemen to collect them.<\/p>\n
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Update: 6AUG2020 I travelled to a wifi area to post this.\u00a0 I’m not sure when my access will be restored so bear with my sparse commenting for the next day or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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