Scott Alan Miller :: A Life Online
Dominica started the day off by baking fresh, home made cinnamon rolls! This is awesome. Not healthy, but awesome.
The heat wave broke today and brought with it a day of torrential rain. It is so dramatic that we went from a dangerous heat index of 118F yesterday and unrelenting sun to rain and open windows keeping the house nice and cool today! This is some crazy weather.
Dominica made oatmeal for breakfast today. We have a heat advisory today. It is ridiculously hot. No wonder we lost power two days ago. It takes so much air conditioning to keep up with heat like this. Heat index was supposed to be at 118F today!
Tonight we headed across the city as a family to go to Kim and Armando’s place to attend Kiara’s quinceanera. They live quite a ways from us so it was rather a long drive. I actually saw Kim just two days ago at the power-outage Mango Meetup event.
We had a really good time. We got to hang out with the kids and we met some new people and we finally got to see Kim and Armando that we’ve not had time to hang out with in a long time. The girls had a lot of fun, too, getting to hang out with lots of other, but mostly older, kids.
Thank goodness the power came back on at some point during the night. No CPAP and no air conditioning was not a good situation at all. It was a rough night, but at least I was able to get a few hours and the air conditioning is running now, so the house is working its way down to a reasonable temperature.
Today I was online writing all day. So much to do to play catch up after spending all day yesterday either working on getting the house and the yard ready for the Mango Meetup event that was at the house, or being offline because our power was out all evening and much of the night. So just a bit backlog of things today.
It has been such a hot week. We have a heat advisory for tomorrow.
“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.
Talked to John Nicklin for a while this morning. It’s been forever since we’ve had a chance to catch up. I had a full morning of phone calls.
Other than that, a busy day of work.