I'm in class this week. It's not a good week to be in class. It's not a good week, period. Fortunately, it's only a three day class, so I'll be finished tomorrow. Fortunately, class let out early today so I could go to work for a little while. That's how bad class sucks - I'd rather be at work, pretending to be productive. Fortunately, there are laws against killing my instructor, otherwise I'd be on the 10:00 news. He's a nice guy, but very, very annoying.
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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