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Here’s a downed utility pole even closer to my place. I got these shots last night. Not long after I got home, my cable went out. It was one of those on, then off, then on, then off, etc things, which means someone was likely monkeying around working on power or phone lines and knocked it out. Thanks, guys. Either way, I’m just glad I had hot water this morning. Anyway, here are the pics.

Utility Pole 1

Utility Pole 2

Utility Pole 3

That is all.

Not content to rely solely on my (considerable) artistic ability to provide a rendering of the damage to power lines yesterday, I snapped a couple of shots of the real thing. As you can see, there is now a bright orange “do not cross” line to ensure people are aware that they are not to drive through the multiple large trees in the road.

Trees 1

Trees 2

…when you have it. I don’t, at the moment. What was left of Ike has taken its toll on the Louisville area, and I’m told I may not have power for another 2 to 7 days. At the office, however, we’re running on a generator, which means I have access to a computer. After attempting to explain the problem I found not too far from my home that may have some bearing on the electricity being out, I decided an illustration may help them understand. See if you can spot the issue.

Tree.

Update: My mistake. According to the status page on their web site:

Harrison REMC reports that most outages were wind and tree related.

So apparently they know. That’s a relief. I thought they were related to alien takeover of our power grid.

With the infamous joni51, whose computer is acting up:

joni51: can u try to fix this thing?????
Neo: what, like come over and putz around on it?
joni51: it ust doesn’t work
joni51: yea and the j keeps missing
Neo: lol

If you happen to know of anyone who is in need of any IT-type services, could you send them my way? I’m looking to do a little extra work at the moment — some part-time stuff to supplement my day job. If they’re curious about my professional background, you could send them to my development blog.

Ripley’s New Toy. My dad took this video of my cat playing around with a toy we got for her when we were out grabbing groceries for their visit. It’s just this little fish hanging from a fishing pole mounted to the sliding glass door with a suction cup, but she’s spent hours with it already. I decided to toss it on youtube (with horrible editing, I know) for some family to check out.

My folks are coming in tomorrow and staying for a few days for my birthday. It should be fun. If anyone has any suggestions for (preferably inexpensive) things to do while they’re here, feel free to shoot me an e-mail or post here. :)

This song has really been an inspiration to me lately. It helps remind me just how big God is, and how He doesn’t need my help to accomplish His will. He’s fully capable of doing that on His own. All he requires of me is a willing heart to obey and follow where He leads me. Not because He needs me, but because I need Him.
Continue reading ‘You are God Alone’ »

I finally gave in to the prevailing “wisdom” and set up a Facebook profile. I’ve always found the various social networking sites to be kind of… icky, but hey, at least it’s not MySpace. I will say that the way the app functions is really slick. [Update: Apparently they heard I was coming. Just as I got acclimated to the app's layout, it changed completely on me, and said "welcome to the new facebook". I'd been at the "old" facebook for all of 3 hours.]