No Wednesday Entry-- HAZMAT Visit

Well, I have finally resolved myself to the facts (tough to swallow) that I will have to part with my Vette.  I will get together the information and pictures for the ad ASAP and it will go on Hemmings.  Things are getting way out of hand and the real estate business is not helping at all...


Today is Mike's last day at work (for a while).  Contractor's have to take a three month hiatus every eighteen months.  However Mike is moving to RayTech and hopefully can return in ten day or so.  The reason I bring this up is that we have acquired the attention of the VPs and now I am supposed to support Mike's stuff as well as mine.  So people around here are beginning to come to the realization that there will be a learning curve

I got home, after doing a little shopping, at about 6:00 to see numerous big white trucks and derricks at the end of my street.  There were also HAZMAT guys running all around in white suits!  I had to get my groceries into the house so I could investigate.  Just then my neighbor ran out of his house to tell me that we have only twenty minutes left before the power was going down until past midnight.  Holy crap, what was going on?  I brought my groceries in and told Terre what was going on.  Obviously this changes our plans to cook dinner in the "electric" oven.  We had some soup on the gas cooktop and just then the power went off.  We decided to go for a walk with the dog and then to a movie.  While out, we asked the guys that were working what was going on.  Apparently during a regular inspection, several of the transformers in our neighborhood of 43 homes were leaking.  These must have PCB-based cooling oil in them or the HAZMAT crew wouldn't be there.  Each one that they replaced was summarily wrapped in Tyvec and placed into a special environmental truck.  The Edison guy in charge told me that the equipment that our developer installed was junk and shouldn't have to be replaced within only eight years of use.  He was concerned that the chemical reaction of this oil with air releases methane and would cause them to become explosive.  Consequently, we did not have power back until around midnight.


The movie we went to see was "She's Out Of My League" and it was pretty good and very funny!

Two Germans are walking down the street. One of them is notorious
for his prejudice against Italians. Yet when he sees an Italian
organ grinder with a monkey, he throws $20 into the monkey's hat.

His friend is surprised.

"But people have been telling me for years how much you hated
Italians, and here you go and do that."

To which the guy replies,

"Well, I couldn't help myself, they're so cute when they're
little."

                Maxine Sums Up The New Health Care Bill - 2010 . . . .  Let me get this straight. We're going to be gifted with a health care plan written by committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president who also hasn't read it and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke.

What the hell could possibly go wrong?