Today and tomorrow I get the dubious honor of attending Microsoft security training with my fellow LAN Managers. Should be a hoot ;) We're all in fine form these days, now that we know we are actually going to get raises, and we have an idea of how much. Most, like me, have probably already calculated to the penny how much more we can expect in the old pay-snub, and how close we are to being thrown into the next tax bracket. You know, it's hard to be a democrat and have money too...
There are certain things about Nashville which would drive a Baptist minister to drink - in public. One of these things is the entity known as NES. Whenever NES isn't out butchering trees, apparently they're arbitrarily turning off power to entire city blocks. Granted, we had a storm the other night. Granted, there were a lot of people without power, and there was a transformer damaged. But notifying Vanderbilt 15 minutes after you've already done it that there will be "intermittent" power outages, then leaving the power off for an hour and a half, just doesn't seem Kosher to me. Blakemore is very busy street, as is 21st. I know that the traffic lights on Blakemore between Natchez and 21st were out, no police presence, just reliance that folks driving in Nashville would know to treat the intersections as 4-way stops. Since I swear two-thirds of the population doesn't understand the concept of a 4-way stop, this was a bad idea. Meanwhile, back at the ranc...
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