I hate nights like last night
Mar. 11th, 2019 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneWoke up in the very early morning hours by the dogs going nuts. Clearly our downstairs neighbors, i.e. raccoon(s), were being rambunctious, I could actually hear them scampering and some chirping. But that wasn't all. I realized they weren't the sole source of chirping, and that's when I opened my eyes.
It was completely black in the house.
We keep a light on in the back half, so if it's completely black, either the light burned out - possible, but unlikely - or the power is out. And since I could two uninterruptible power supplies complaining along with a smoke alarm about the lack of juice, I knew it was power.
The dogs continued their insanity regardless.
So I slipped into my Birks, turned on the flashlight on my cell, and trundled out to turn off the living room UPS and shut down my iMac so I could turn off its UPS. Then stumble back to bed after closing the gate to the kitchen, something my wife forgot to do when she came to bed which would also cut off one rampage area for the pooches, she was now awake.
Two chirp sources eliminated, one could not be cancelled, still insane dogs.
The house stayed warm enough, it was down to 65, I went back to bed, but the chirp kept me awake. I mentioned something to Russet, she said she couldn't hear me: she'd gone back to her ear plugs because of the noise maker. AHA! I sleep on my left side, so I put one ear plug in my right ear - problem solved! Pillow masks my left ear, which by itself has enough tinnitus to ignore the chirp.
By now it was 6am, got a bit more sleep and ended getting up at 7 when the power came back on - had to get up to turn on the living room UPS which has the wireless router so Russet could sign on to the observatory and find out if anything bad had happened there, apparently all was fine - they have good UPS protection plus a huge monster generator. Had breakfast, got a nap for another hour or so. Still feeling kinda wrecked.
Wheeeee.
It was completely black in the house.
We keep a light on in the back half, so if it's completely black, either the light burned out - possible, but unlikely - or the power is out. And since I could two uninterruptible power supplies complaining along with a smoke alarm about the lack of juice, I knew it was power.
The dogs continued their insanity regardless.
So I slipped into my Birks, turned on the flashlight on my cell, and trundled out to turn off the living room UPS and shut down my iMac so I could turn off its UPS. Then stumble back to bed after closing the gate to the kitchen, something my wife forgot to do when she came to bed which would also cut off one rampage area for the pooches, she was now awake.
Two chirp sources eliminated, one could not be cancelled, still insane dogs.
The house stayed warm enough, it was down to 65, I went back to bed, but the chirp kept me awake. I mentioned something to Russet, she said she couldn't hear me: she'd gone back to her ear plugs because of the noise maker. AHA! I sleep on my left side, so I put one ear plug in my right ear - problem solved! Pillow masks my left ear, which by itself has enough tinnitus to ignore the chirp.
By now it was 6am, got a bit more sleep and ended getting up at 7 when the power came back on - had to get up to turn on the living room UPS which has the wireless router so Russet could sign on to the observatory and find out if anything bad had happened there, apparently all was fine - they have good UPS protection plus a huge monster generator. Had breakfast, got a nap for another hour or so. Still feeling kinda wrecked.
Wheeeee.
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Date: 2019-03-12 03:12 pm (UTC)ANYWAY, the evening wears on and we're having fun talking and such, Richard turns to Audrey and says about me: "Does he always use a five dollar word when a one dollar word would do?" Audrey's reply: "Always!"
I refer to it as "I have a fully-loaded vocabulary and I'm not afraid to use it!"
Out of curiosity, what were the words that you learned, and how was Germany?
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Date: 2019-03-12 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-03-14 01:10 pm (UTC)She's a pretty awesome friend, huge amount of fun to be with. I've known her for 30 years and am very happy to have her in my life.
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Date: 2019-03-14 12:53 pm (UTC)The words I learned were: chirping, scampering and trundled. I knew chirping was some sort of sound, but never before bothered to find out which :D Like... all these words are pretty understandable from the context, and, of course, one gets that the two first ones are sounds and the last is a particular way of walking, and often, when I read a book, say, that's enough information for me. But reading this post of yours I realized that one of the reasons I'm here is that I want to broaden my vocabulary, so... I'm glad to know you and read your posts! :)
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Date: 2019-03-14 01:09 pm (UTC)Happy to help! I frequently use somewhat obscure words like trundling, and I'll use them in conversation. A boss from a long time ago commented when I gave him a technical paper, "Wayne, you write like you speak." He was intending it as a slam, I said thank you. :-)