h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's a bit belated but Happy Birthday, Sporky!

A friend's son is doing his MSc and PhD together and paid whilst he is about it.

Oh dear, there was other stuff I was going to say, but can't remember what

I think I shall head for bed.

Happy Birthday Sporky. I hope that d'E Witty and GL are not effected long by this outage.

Why do i see this as an additional sign of the collapse of the nation?

I have power; there is no telling how widespread this is yet. NY City has no power. Cell phones are out. But I can connect to a web site in the UK, thus proving that the original design of the internet as a super-redundant emergency communication system works.

And what do I use this super-communication medium for? -- Happy Birthday, Sporky.

And Amy, A1139465 is fully up to date.

Apparently the blackout is spreading. Someone just told me it's reached Ohio.

What blackout??

Happy Birthday, Sporky! Here's the most popular gift I've ever given, a Backlog Exemption coupon -- good for 20 LEDs.

*grabs a piece of *

Amy, I'm relieved to hear from you again, and sorry about mixing up the town you live in. I'll remember from now on. *contritely*

A beautiful cool day here. But Vinnie is drooling like a baby with a lollipop. I thought maybe it was because he was purring, but now I see him looking a bit uncomfortable as he lies on the floor, and the saliva is all over his mouth. And on the carpet. Oh dear.

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*Lil, there's a blackout all over the east coast and apparently moving west with the night*

Phew! Gave up on all the backlog...good one though. Just back from hols, hot but cooler than here it seems. Met some amazing golden girls. Friends for over thirty years and truly foul to each other as only real friends can be...I did laugh so. There were senior blonde moments and many a tropical moment and sun and sand and... for heaven's sake no! Not that! It was far to hot to even talk about that! Any more news on the blackout?
take care
brown boots

I guess it's all the way through Ottawa in the north, Cleveland in the west. I don't know how far it goes south, but it looks like just the state of New york. Wonder how Witty is?

It's a little weird, watching all these NYC folk leaving the city like 9-11. Very weird, in fact.

Its a failure at the Mohawk-Something power grid near Niagara Falls, is what one of my clients in upstate New York at work told me. Not terrorists.

BB, this might be splitting hairs to those outside Montana, but you cannot drive drunk in our state. You will be in deep doo-doo when caught by the authorities. Your passengers, however, can ride with open alcohol containers. Its part of our state's prickly nature. We probably would have outlawed this, but when the federal government stepped in and told us to do so, we thumbed our collective nose at them and refused during the last Legislative session this spring.

Here I am! *waves*

Never lost power here, but we had a momentary brown-out as the grid failure cascaded. I was just out running my kids to their dance lessons.

Happy Birthday, Sporky.

Glad to see you about, Amy.

Good job, Chris.

I forget what else.

The news services are reporting that they are slowing starting to bring the electricity back online, but it will take hours. I don't think it is spreading.

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I am still waiting to hear how the possible tuition assistance will work out. There is but 4 weeks and 1 day till the first wave of layoffs commence, and we still are woefully unprepared. My last 60 applications have yeilded no call backs or courtesy emails to even aknowledge the recipt of the CV or application.

Marv, that's crappy. The least they could do is say they got your resume.

Hello... Z, Vip and FC say hello!

hello, Vip!

So I'm sitting here trying to get the fake nails my friend the new nail tech at a fancy salon put on me. I tried to function with them, but I can't type, I can't do dishes, nothing.

So i'm sitting here with my fingernails (on my left hand...I'm typing with my right) wrapped in foil with acetone soaked cotton balls underneath. I look *very* weird.

I caught up with the news over at the neighbors, when I went to admire Cille's new car.

It's possible that Vinnie has bitten down on a bee or wasp. He is eating normally and shows his usual vigor -- he and Ms Limbo were playing tag over on La Bosquita when we all walked over there -- but he is definitely drooling and a little uncomfortable. We are monitoring the situation.

Is the power back yet in the US?

Poor Vinnie, but if he isn't off his kibble (which I discovered courtesy of Fred Dibnah is also an iron barrel) that is a good sign.

Hello Vip, nice to meet you.

I am skipping the gym today, which means I haven't been all week, but I deserve a holiday and I get too hot in this weather anyway. Even though the worst of hte heat is over, we are still above our seasonal average, which is around 22ºC.

We have had power surges here and flickery lights, but that is Guildford for you on any old day. I don't know why we have such problems here, but at the moment I expect supply is being outstripped by demand with all those fans whirring away.

Oops, T, your post wasn't there when I started!