Ya know, it would have been a good day to stay at home. I feel like a left fielder trying to catch fly balls, the calls have come in so fast. So far I've answered "Why can't I send an e-mail to so-and-so's Sprint phone? It says to contact my system administrator..." and "Why am I getting e-mails for this other person?" Must be e-mail day! Haven't had one of those in awhile - I'd forgotten what it was like. The third request was to create a shared calendar in Outlook - yep, looks like e-mail day. Makes me almost glad that it's also meeting day.
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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