......CONGRATULATIONS KEITHHENRY ON REACHING 6,000,000 MOT POINTS !!!......

Well, an official welcome aboard to darth_vader! Lots of milestones today and some old names back in there. Also, we hit 300,000,000 points today as a team! Nice end to the week.

........CONGRATULATIONS BRAVEHART ON REACHING 50,000 MOT POINTS !!!.........

WOW Team!
Welcome Darth!

Thanks folks!
I’m feeling much better now. 1) I’ve had some beer. 2) Apparently I have very good homeowner’s insurance.
I spent the afternoon with the insurance adjuster and after my $1K deductible the electrician/electrical work is covered in full and the appliances are covered at replacement cost. All computer peripheral equipment is covered except I am only covered for two household computers (doesn’t every single-person household have 9???). However, the guy seemed to know his stuff about gaming and vid cards and wrote them up as two, high-end video gaming computers. I won’t say what he comp’ed them for but will say it was very, very, very generous.
When they ‘show me the money’ I’ll get started rebuilding them. But right now springtime is split between dirt farmer, chicken farmer, lumberjack and the normal household chores. Not much time for server farming.



I must have. I like big Oak trees but they don’t like me. I was talking to the PG&E crew and the cable is designed to break at a weak point at the transformer so the falling cable is dead. It didn’t. At the junction to the house there is a pigtail so if the steel cable the wire is wrapped around is torn away it allows the wire to move away from the house before it breaks at the connectors to prevent arcing. That didn’t happen. It broke where the wire enters the conduit to the breaker box. The conduit/breaker box is grounded. Apparent not well enough (is now). My main breaker should have opened. It didn’t. It pretty much fried the breaker box. That seems to me to be a lot of stuff that should have happened but didn’t. I have a new box and all new breakers now though.

This old man had two very busy days ... and ... tomorrow I have a blind date with a chainsaw ... again.

Well that sucks. I'm sure the 14 months had nothing to do with it ... of course it did.