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I have been AWAOL.

I lost power on Tuesday night and have been fighting to get the utility truck here to fix it. Trouble was that a wire came loose from the utility pole outside my house on Tuesday night and then a Cyclone Bomb (what the weather people called it) hit and thousands of people were without power... I have been rather stressed and cold and missed work...etc...

A utility truck pulled out to the house just as we were pulling out of the driveway today. Dad and the Armenian neighbor went over to the truck. There was a small wire on the street side that was disconnected from the pole. I never thought to check that side. The utility man said that if we saw it and said there was a wire down we would have been looked at first because the electric company would have freaked and thought live wire. You would have still be correct about they wire and not really lying. oh well. The Armenian neighbor told us to go and he would make sure that the wiring was fixed before he would let the man leave. We turned on the front porch light and the neighbor said he would make sure the light came on before the guy could leave.

We went to the aunts where they had a late Birthday cake for my Dad I left at 3 so I could check the house and get things cleaned up. We had 5 bags of trash from the down stair refrigerator. I haven't cleaned my fridge out. Lost everything. Bummer, but things could have been worse.

I have the furnace gunning right now to get the chill out of the house. I had burning oil like that, but the house was 53 degrees today. The cat is happily sleeping on a radiator.

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Last Wednesday night I was very stressed about not being able to work because of power. I am so far behind in my work because Thursday, Friday of the previous week and the Monday I had to do ask my Team leaders work. So when I woke up and there was still no power I packed up my work computer and the monitor...which is weighted and HEAVY... and all the cords and crap that goes with my "work station... into a small weekend suitcase with wheel. The monist wouldn't really fit so I tied it non to the top of the case. I wheeled it 5 block to my friend's ceramic shop... ay 4:30 AM.

I was happy that I could het it all started there and I could connect to the wifi. I had no modem to hard wire into, but some work is better than no work. I sent emails to the Boston Boss and team lead saying that I dint know how long I could stay there as there was a class coming in at 10. and I started to plug away. The morning reports were slow, but I expected that because I was using wifi. The team lead messes me and asks if she can help. I said I just wanted to take things one step at a time and see how far I could go. She was downloading reports for am ACO system and it took double teh usual time.

At 5:50 I get a text from the Boston Boss asking if I had power. I said no, but I was at a ceramic shop. I was up and running but slow. She wanted me to download reports for her on the ACO system while she drove into the office. Umm...that may take me 2 hours since I was on WIFI. She said she didn't want the others to be behind in their work and wanted me to do it. I became angry, but typed nothing. Glad it was a text as I would not have been able to hid my feelings in my voice. She knew I was behind and knew I was working in a very unorthodox way. I said that I dint realize that we could go into the office. I thought from the meeting we had on Monday that I needed to make a reservation. She said no. That we could go in anytime we wanted. (WTF) I asked if I confused the info in the meeting. She said no. (WTF)

Gee, do you think it would have taken a HUGE amount of effort to text me the night before and tell me that I could go in if I didn't have power. She knows that I can get a ride to the door. That just upset me. Here I am thinking I am going an extra mile to work...and she could care less.

Then she asked me to research work from over a year ago. i said I would as soon as I finished the recs, but since I am on wifi it will take some time...

Friday I had a PTO day scheduled. I wasn't going to take it, but I was upset so I did. I hoped that I would have power and I could work behind the scenes to catch up. But I never has power until this afternoon.

I really wish I could figure out the boss. This seems so deliberate.