“Democracy is the political belief that the means justify the ends.” – S.A.M.
This morning we started off the day with Dominica making homemade breakfast tacos. After breakfast, I went out and mowed the lawn, as best as I could, with the push lawn mower. It’s a manual one with the whirling blades. It is so hard to push that after mowing the lawn my hands were rubbed raw and were bleeding! This is not going to work. And it really wasn’t able to cut very much, either.
It is a hot one today. Very warm. I was mowing the lawn this morning to get ready for our Mango Meetup DFW meeting that is scheduled for this evening.
We spent much of the day cleaning the house and getting things prepared for the meetup. Just before people started to arrive, however, the neighbourhood transformer blew, probably from the extreme heat and so many people running so much air conditioning, and the power went out for our street. I did some walking around to figure out what was happening and managed to catch up with some of the neighbours who were doing the same thing, making it easier to track down what had happened.
So this is not good. One or two dozen people coming over to the house for a meeting that we were planning to record and there isn’t power for the lights, the air conditioning, cooking the food, running the cameras, powering laptops… nothing. Not good, at all.
So we had a very interesting evening. The meeting was very difficult and we had to have the windows open, as best as we could, with it being in the high nineties outside and very humid. Our house does not have good cross breezes at the best of times and with the house full of people, very warm people, it was that much worse. We were all just sweating and sweating. It was really rough.
Originally the power was listed as going to be restored in the early evening, but this was pushed further and further back. Because the meeting was over it was pushed to nearly four in the morning!
No way for me to go to sleep tonight, and no way for me to post about what was happening as our Internet was out. A long, dark, hot night for the Miller family.