Friday, March 30, 2007
POWER SOURCE.....
Yesterday I wrote that cancer has no power. Sadly, we discovered where there was too much power for some friends of ours. Some time back we signed up for faster access to the internet from our server. For a while it was great……I was flipping around almost faster than I could comprehend.
Then it seemed to slow down to the speed we formally had. During peak times it was irritating enough that I considered calling the server but never did. This week our power took turns going off and then coming back on. Rocky checked the fuse box and everything seemed to be in order.
When the power came back on some of the overhead lights had less wattage than a candle. I finally gave up and called our power company who had a technician in our driveway less than an hour later. After some initial checking he noticed black smudge at the top of our pole with a large lump caught in the wires and crammed in behind the metal power box.
When he took the face off the meter box the bottom of it was full of dead hornets. Last year Becky spied a hornets nest attached to it and Rocky sprayed and tore it down……of course some were left inside the box but died from the fumes. You never know what will turn up at any given time with nature and mankind vying for the same space.
The technician went back to his truck and returned with two large extension poles. After some effort he was able to dislodge the obstruction and to our amazement, two squirrels dropped to the ground. Of course they had been electrocuted and poor little things left up there for who knows how long.
Rocky and I are critter lovers and it made us sick. We enjoy the squirrels as much as the birds and all the other little guys who use our yard for a playground and food supply. So now the computer is faster again…..I don’t understand electricity so I don’t know if that was the problem or not. Maybe I just think it’s faster…..I’m not going to spend a lot of time analyzing the possibility.
Power, like so many things, is good and bad. Too much; not enough? Either can be destructive when not used in the right way. We all have a certain amount of power at our disposal and the trick is knowing when, where or how much to dispense at any given time.
Just make sure your power source is from the right place……..
Until the next time, I am,
Essentially Esther
Then it seemed to slow down to the speed we formally had. During peak times it was irritating enough that I considered calling the server but never did. This week our power took turns going off and then coming back on. Rocky checked the fuse box and everything seemed to be in order.
When the power came back on some of the overhead lights had less wattage than a candle. I finally gave up and called our power company who had a technician in our driveway less than an hour later. After some initial checking he noticed black smudge at the top of our pole with a large lump caught in the wires and crammed in behind the metal power box.
When he took the face off the meter box the bottom of it was full of dead hornets. Last year Becky spied a hornets nest attached to it and Rocky sprayed and tore it down……of course some were left inside the box but died from the fumes. You never know what will turn up at any given time with nature and mankind vying for the same space.
The technician went back to his truck and returned with two large extension poles. After some effort he was able to dislodge the obstruction and to our amazement, two squirrels dropped to the ground. Of course they had been electrocuted and poor little things left up there for who knows how long.
Rocky and I are critter lovers and it made us sick. We enjoy the squirrels as much as the birds and all the other little guys who use our yard for a playground and food supply. So now the computer is faster again…..I don’t understand electricity so I don’t know if that was the problem or not. Maybe I just think it’s faster…..I’m not going to spend a lot of time analyzing the possibility.
Power, like so many things, is good and bad. Too much; not enough? Either can be destructive when not used in the right way. We all have a certain amount of power at our disposal and the trick is knowing when, where or how much to dispense at any given time.
Just make sure your power source is from the right place……..
Until the next time, I am,
Essentially Esther
