After putting out the toast, knocking off the smoking part, slathering it with jam to kill the burnt taste, I set about getting my day underway.
I had to run into town this morning to get some jewelry in the mail and when I got there it was raining like crazy. The drainage isn't the best in the area where I had to go, so the water was standing in the streets, nasty washed all the gunk off the street, standing water. So I trudged through and into the PO. While standing there getting my packages on their way, a man walked in, walked up beside me, stuck a business card out toward me as he stared down at my feet and asked "Who does your pedicures?" I looked at him, took the card, glanced at my wet, dirty, feet, smiled and said "Obviously no one."
So needless to say, I will make time sometime today to do something about that wickedly ugly chipped polish...and the first thing I did when I got home was wash the crud off that I picked up crossing the street in the rain. Good grief! And you would think that that was enough for one day before noon......but nooooooooo.
The big news around the island is that WAPA (stands for Water & Power Authority), where we get electricity, our only option, no other providers.....can't pay their bills to the refinery and has been up on cash up-front 48 hrs in advance for barge loads of fuel oil. (Don't even get me started about barging fuel oil, that's a whole other issue and would take up way too much bandwidth.) So because they are having trouble paying for the fuel oil, one of the options being considered is to put us on rotating power.
Don't know what rotating power is do you???? Of course not, it wouldn't be an option in the real world. You would all riot in the streets in the real world if the electric company told you that they were going to turn your power off for 5 hours at a time to conserve fuel oil! That's right, they are considering, as a last resort mind you, but still considering, putting us on power rotation!!!!
Just when you think you've heard it all!!! We're paying almost 5 times, that's FIVE TIMES, what electricity costs in the states per kw, now we might be out of that outrageously expensive stuff for 5 hours at a time. (quick multiply your last electric bill by 5 and see if you would be a happy camper!) Do you know what that will do to my business??? Do you know that I couldn't even have washed my feet when I got home this morning if we were already on rotation! We all have water pumps, there is very little public water!!! So when you're out of power, you a pretty much shitoutofluck!!
And news flash...the 5 hours off usually ends up being longer... So think about what that does to businesses! And if they rotate us off at night, then that means that you are in the flippin' dark! No inside lights, no outside lights, no water, no fan....NO FAN!!! are you hearing that one...NO fan!!! Do you know what mosquitoes do when there is no fan to keep them blown back??? They attack! Plus, if you don't drag out the hurricane phone (the corded one that doesn't use electricity) you have no way to call for help when things go bump in the dark.
OK...I'm climbing down off my soapbox.......it hasn't happened yet....I have power, I have high speed Internet, I have my oxygen generator, I have my computer....I can work....so I better get busy, because it looks like it can all go bush at any minute!
Have a great day everyone.......because remember it could be worse....you could have a guy staring at your gunky polish chipped toes asking, who does your pedicures, you could be waiting for a storm to blow through and you could be trying to figure out how to get things set up so that you can keep working when WAPA turns off the power. Just another day in flippin' paradise!!!
But......it still beats the real world! (and yes, this attitude could be a sign of some sort of mental illness)
BE BOLD, CHANGE YOUR CHIPPED POLISH, WEAR ART!!!
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