Yay! Power!

So power was restored around 4pm yesterday, right after i left for my second library trip to charge my phone, and a mere 47 hours after the initial failure. Apparently a neighbor went down to the work crew and talked to the manager. He claimed not to know that our power was still out (the rest of the area had it restored the morning after it went out but our neighborhood had not). This is despite the fact that the power company had a recording set up telling us when they expected our power to be restored (with the deadline shifting each time my mom called them). Assuming said power company has not made incredible advances in artificial intelligence (sorry, i've had that snide comment in my mind since yesterday), someone at the company did realize we were out of lights. Second, it seems that the reason we were out was that some guys had knocked some things loose during a previous repair job, so that the storm on the 4th finished dislodging whatever parts they had jarred. Oh well, its back on now so i'm happy.

Of course, we've since had problems with the phone lines, meaning my internet isn't working and i'm am back at the library yet again :)