Friday the 13th.... let's try not to think about that, shall we? So far, my luck's all been good - the Freightliner on our ass as we went through the road construction at White Bridge Road this morning did not plow into us, although his brakes took a beating. There aren't many sounds more frightening than the sound of a semi trying desperately to stop - unless you count the sickening crunch that sometimes follows. The servers and/or their various applications did not die this morning, but the day is young. It's cool outside, there's football tomorrow, and I can sleep late in the morning if I want to. Life is good.
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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