september 2003

ok, so....last evening when the electricity went off suddenly, this pc reverted to september 3, 2003...at least so far as the clock goes......midnight to be exact....no other loss of particulars as far as i can tell......everything in this house has had to be reset, of course.....with special attention to the alarm clock.....i hate to hear about others who are late because they overslept....so i best not become one of them.....our upstairs phones are all traditional, with cords.....remnants of the handset-connected-to-the-base era.....and while these phones seem quaint, they are quite useful in a storm when the portable phones are completely dead.....we even have an older corded phone on top of the beer refrigerator....in harvest gold...the phone that was here when we moved in....this has been hooked back up tot he kitchen wall from time to time.....mostly when that phone has hit the floor one too many times...such is the fate of portables.....our yard looks much the same despite the downpour...mostly dead from the bake-oven heat.....ah well...i try so hard to keep the garden going so the yard will look nice for the pound and pedal....and this year it will look the same as it does every year...dried up and near to dying if not already dead........and so it goes.....