Thursday, February 07, 2008

OLD FAITHFUL......
(begun Thursday at 3.39am)
Exactly eight minutes after picking up my pen and beginning to write, the power went out.....*keels over laughing...
I fetched my cunning new stand-by light and continued scribbling undeterred.... *beams..
It was our first blackout since the nine and a half hours plus back on January 11th and it's been a long time coming...*grins...
Do I take the timing personally?
Well, half and half hmmm.... Being as its a Thursday,and the one day a week I have Penny in to work, it will mean no vacuuming .... otherwise, no problemo...*bares its teeth....
Do all the changes made to the orphanage roof need now to be manually connected to the Grid? Quite possibly...
Has mon Capitano been warned off his usual reprisals taken against my irksome blogs? So the best he could do at short notice was to suggest to his mates that Thursday was the only day available to tie up the latest work done? *keels over... It matters little.....*shrugs...
Penny is here to keep fat Sophie company when I go out.... whether she is able to clean the house or not is of little consequence...*smiles...
I am amazed at how the room temperature appeared to drop, some 15 minutes after the power went down....*chokes..
Ah yes, I've long been aware of the wall of heat filling certain areas of the house...*grins..
Areas that become temporarily unbearably hot, especially when my Master is 'in residence'...*grins... He has clearly decided that if he can't get me one way, another will do? *falls over....
The geyser thing has been niggling away at the back of my mind...
It's been singled out as the biggest power guzzler in the home..... okay then.
The 'Government' now wish to attach a device to homeowners geysers which will give Munis the ability to switch your geyser on and off at will....Why?
Since Bali was given our circuit to manage by the corrupt Allen Spence and his Muni cronies, the most visible/audible effects have been, oddly enough, to our geyser....
Some days, excrutiatingly noisy, somedays overflowing....
Even just flushing the toilet would give a huge range of different sound effects....
With the Big Brother Trials well underway, I have to guess that the common-or-garden geyser was discovered to be a possible giveaway in the average household.... One that may just raise eyebrows and get people to begin thinking?..*grins...
That it is probably the one item that was most likely to fail as the BB techs race to connect their technology to the Main Grid? That there is a strong possibility that entire neighbourhoods could lose their geysers during the fumblings made by these techs and Controllers, and the deliberate power outtages...
One or two damaged here and there would not cause a stir... but an entire street or more? *grins..
I'm guessing the threat of this happening has forced the Corrupt in charge, to home in on our innocent geysers in an attempt to control them separately.....*cackles...
It was my kids friend that had muttered something yesterday about a plumber mate who suddenly had more geysers to mend than he could cope with up in the Midlands.... *beams...and the Midlands have most certainly been having their fair share of blackouts lately....
Is there anyone, not already blinded to the eyeballs in gravy, with the ability to comprehend what I struggle to say?
The PTB don't give a toss about the possibility of blowing up your geyser in their mad scramble to invade YOUR home...
What they do most certainly care about, is the attention this may raise, should an entire string of geysers fail inexplicably.....*laughs...
At one point yesterday, looking over at the wekkers beavering away on the orphanage roof, the sun must have been at the perfect angle and the new section resembled nothing less than a square of shiny tinfoil! I kid you not!
The sheets of attractive pale blue material do actually look silver when laid flat and the edging now completed is the sparkly silver of tinsel....Weirdness....
Far from my cries of foul slowing down their attentions, it appears the Corrupt have stepped up the amount of technology ladled onto the orphanage itself....
Solar heating? Is this possibly what will be trotted out should the Sisters get curious ? *falls over frothing....
Laters:
I went up to unlock the gates after 5.00am and predictably found that Wragge, Michan, Grindrod and Mary roads were ablaze with lights...*waves to Charlie Anderson...
The traffic lights under the freeway bridge are running and No. 620 Barnard Road has its massive orange aerial active...*smiles and shrugs..
I'm not complaining at this point...*smiles... It was undoubtedly time to remind the neighbourhood whose da Man? Fosho it is...*cackling...
A Muni roadworking lorry and gang are setting up down by the stop street... Neat cover for whatever it is they plan to do while the power is out....
When was it that every man Jack began wearing the Muni blue overalls? Could it have been deliberately encouraged as far back as 2004 and the outset of this 'noble' (*gags) Project?
That vagrants and the unemployed were allowed to wear this Muni uniform to further confuse residents? *laughing...
Kudos to the Clever Dick who thought that one up *thumbs up...
Kasim and Mohamed were staunchly doing their bit for the Cause at 5ish this morning, and I found Spotty and his gaunt female companion causing chaos as they roamed free up the Crescent.... *snorts...
Jump now to Friday at 3.45am:
Little wonder I declined to publish the previous pages yesterday ...*sighs...
Classic incoherent waffle....the harder I try, the more crazed I sound...*chokes...
The gradual focus on geysers by the Corrupt is relevant and has way more to do with keeping the Big Brother Project hidden, than any real amount of power saving...*hawks...
The picture on the front page of yesterdays Mercury and the article accompanying it by Jeff Wicks? Utter bullshit!
So Kwa Zulu now suddenly is one of the most prone to lightning provinces? Ambiguous in the extreme, and trotted out in attempt to cover losses made and that will occur as the pratts fiddle with the power....*cackles...
Such clumsiness so early on, ensures that excuses will become even more ludicrous as time goes by....*laughs...
Do Allen Spence's cheeks now match his red eyes or has he finally cooked his head totally and cares less how silly the explanations given have become?
The power was graciously re-instated at 12.15pm or nearabouts making it another 9hour + blackout..
I was online at 5.45pm yesterday evening, when a big dip threatened to knock the power out again...
Instead, all the lights dimmed and ran at half their intensity from then on...*curious....
I had seen gangs of wekkers sitting about the suburb with giant reels of orange cabling, as I headed out to the shops... The powercut certainly didn't seem to affect the Muni Contractors at the bottom of the Crescent, adding their contribution to Telkom's work done in creating the new manhole next to Kasims house at No. 2...pfft..
The chopper could be heard busy in the distance last night and only actually flew over once during the operation...
I woke this morning to the sound of heavy rain - undoubtedly welcomed by the Crooked, as they deliberately run off millions more litres under the pretext of stormwater excess....*beams..
And yes - it does occasionally occur to me to wonder why I choose to continue to dent my pointy head against the Wall of Disbelief....*cackles...
With my limited abilities futilely yelling for the common man to snap out of his coma, its a dead-end street.... *smiles..
But like I always said: it's the TRYING that counts...*beams...
Peace...
PS *studies the close-up of her Vice-Chair's driveway light and the ladder against the house, taken yesterday, with some amusement....
The GameWrecker remarked at 7.00am this morning that the water pressure (poor these days at the best of times), was lower than usual. A clear indication that enormous runoffs are happening while it rains....
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Friday 8th February 2008 at 9.03am.