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Ok. Back again for a long while I hope! So, here is what I know about the POWER in this house! IT SUCKS. And I have lived here for 18 years!, we had neighbors who wereNOT happy about my bunny explosion. He actually ACCUSED my rabbit as attacking and ASSAULT TO COMMIT HOMOCIDE BY my little bunny in the face of his big dog!! He wanted to sue me, saying I had to pay HIS vet bills, pain and suffering etc because my little bunny attacked his DOG!! Lucky for me that went nowhere fast! Except for the " Wasskily WABBITS in Whonnock " on the front 1/2 page of our local newspaper.
Sorry, I am wandering all over the place, off topic and many other atrocities I am sure. I am having a head time breathing and my pulse is 98 beats per min. So I have a hard time concentrating.
Anyway, that neighbor was PO-Ed ( am I allowed to say that? ) because there was a bidding war on this heap of junk on the most beautiful acres on earth. Well, e Rey morning at 6 AM he listened to some favorite sports station on the radio. Before I knew that little tidbit I would tip toe thru the house trying to find the radio to shut it OFF! I never found it! One day he was being neighborly and told me that the grounding on this house was screwed up and all I had to do was go to the hardware store and buy some sall gizmo that I could attach to the .. I have no idea about electrical systems, except when they don't work! I asked him to buy it, I would re-I bourse him and let him attach it to whatever. The weird thing was - he NEVER DID THAT! Instead he complained daily about the static on his radio and I learned that everytime I put my head on the pillow I would hear voices that aggravated me.
They finally moved and then the sweetest couple moved next door. Each of us on this side of the street has an acre. On the other side of the street it is three or more acres
We live in a rainforest....it is always humid and the lines from the street fill up with water and the power gets worse in consecutive ratio! I told them about the radio problem and the male half of the couple was nice enough to either not turn the radio on, or moved it to the other end of the house. To this DAY, if it is raining really hard or someone run water thru the taps I can STILL hear voices! Once in a while I get lucky and it is music!
,in 1996 I decide to buy another computer., my roommate worked for an national Canadian store. Out of business now but Scifan would know it well. The first four PC's they sent me, I thought were flawed. So, I kept switching brands and got the same result. So I joined a forum and they suggested a really good UPS with a battery. I got one from MGE and was trouble free after that! Except for the norm.
Also, our lights flicker all the time! The clocks lose or gain time, mostly lose tho' and my digital phone which is on the same circuit as my IPad goes nuts after a big rain, no one can hear me during a conversation, I hear them saying Diane? Diane? Where'd you go and then they hang up! In the meantime I am yelling I am here , I'm HERE, then click! Now after many heavy days of rain my phone is doing something NEW! No one but me who only can hear a loud crackling like some one is scrunching cellophane in my ear while I try to hear what the other person is saying. My lamp, which is on same circuit, blows out a bulb about once a month!
So, now to add co
N fusion to the mix, I jus spoke briefly to an IT Tech, who said the power pack has something in it that will protect my battery but it would be a great idea, for my mind a MUST, to get a power protection device, I forget the name of the manufacturer, three letters but not MGE. MORE like P—A or APC? I will figure that out. He also told me to get an online protector! I have never heard of this, is it related to mobiles? I can check it out am now losing all energy again! If ANYONE remembers the end of those old movies where the white and black dots are every where then they will be able to imagine what I see just before I get the snowy white and then FOR ME I am about 3 sec.s from sinking deep into shock and non- responsive.
What really bugs me at that point is I am 100% paralyzed and some well meaning friend who gets me to emerg. Tells the Staff that he is my husband, or she is my sister and I can HEAR every word they say! So someone who has NO business making decisions for me is ALLOWED to!!
Sometimes I go completely OUT and can only hear about the last minute of a comatose state!
Is there a Doctor in the house?
The reason this is so long and rambling is because I have TOO much adrenaline, hence the monologue, and if it keeps building I am back to the white light again and ready to crash.
The reason I told you this last bit is to say THANK YOU ALL, because if I can distract myself I am more likely to recover more quickly! So TRIPLE THANKS GUYS, this is a blessing, a refuge where I can go when I am teeter-totting between those states, and if you have read to this point, go and buy a lottery ticket because the powers that be are cheering you on for helping some one in dire straits! My HERO's! Thanks doesn't cut it but it is all I have!
Sorry, I am wandering all over the place, off topic and many other atrocities I am sure. I am having a head time breathing and my pulse is 98 beats per min. So I have a hard time concentrating.
Anyway, that neighbor was PO-Ed ( am I allowed to say that? ) because there was a bidding war on this heap of junk on the most beautiful acres on earth. Well, e Rey morning at 6 AM he listened to some favorite sports station on the radio. Before I knew that little tidbit I would tip toe thru the house trying to find the radio to shut it OFF! I never found it! One day he was being neighborly and told me that the grounding on this house was screwed up and all I had to do was go to the hardware store and buy some sall gizmo that I could attach to the .. I have no idea about electrical systems, except when they don't work! I asked him to buy it, I would re-I bourse him and let him attach it to whatever. The weird thing was - he NEVER DID THAT! Instead he complained daily about the static on his radio and I learned that everytime I put my head on the pillow I would hear voices that aggravated me.
They finally moved and then the sweetest couple moved next door. Each of us on this side of the street has an acre. On the other side of the street it is three or more acres
We live in a rainforest....it is always humid and the lines from the street fill up with water and the power gets worse in consecutive ratio! I told them about the radio problem and the male half of the couple was nice enough to either not turn the radio on, or moved it to the other end of the house. To this DAY, if it is raining really hard or someone run water thru the taps I can STILL hear voices! Once in a while I get lucky and it is music!
,in 1996 I decide to buy another computer., my roommate worked for an national Canadian store. Out of business now but Scifan would know it well. The first four PC's they sent me, I thought were flawed. So, I kept switching brands and got the same result. So I joined a forum and they suggested a really good UPS with a battery. I got one from MGE and was trouble free after that! Except for the norm.
Also, our lights flicker all the time! The clocks lose or gain time, mostly lose tho' and my digital phone which is on the same circuit as my IPad goes nuts after a big rain, no one can hear me during a conversation, I hear them saying Diane? Diane? Where'd you go and then they hang up! In the meantime I am yelling I am here , I'm HERE, then click! Now after many heavy days of rain my phone is doing something NEW! No one but me who only can hear a loud crackling like some one is scrunching cellophane in my ear while I try to hear what the other person is saying. My lamp, which is on same circuit, blows out a bulb about once a month!
So, now to add co
N fusion to the mix, I jus spoke briefly to an IT Tech, who said the power pack has something in it that will protect my battery but it would be a great idea, for my mind a MUST, to get a power protection device, I forget the name of the manufacturer, three letters but not MGE. MORE like P—A or APC? I will figure that out. He also told me to get an online protector! I have never heard of this, is it related to mobiles? I can check it out am now losing all energy again! If ANYONE remembers the end of those old movies where the white and black dots are every where then they will be able to imagine what I see just before I get the snowy white and then FOR ME I am about 3 sec.s from sinking deep into shock and non- responsive.
What really bugs me at that point is I am 100% paralyzed and some well meaning friend who gets me to emerg. Tells the Staff that he is my husband, or she is my sister and I can HEAR every word they say! So someone who has NO business making decisions for me is ALLOWED to!!
Sometimes I go completely OUT and can only hear about the last minute of a comatose state!
Is there a Doctor in the house?
The reason this is so long and rambling is because I have TOO much adrenaline, hence the monologue, and if it keeps building I am back to the white light again and ready to crash.
The reason I told you this last bit is to say THANK YOU ALL, because if I can distract myself I am more likely to recover more quickly! So TRIPLE THANKS GUYS, this is a blessing, a refuge where I can go when I am teeter-totting between those states, and if you have read to this point, go and buy a lottery ticket because the powers that be are cheering you on for helping some one in dire straits! My HERO's! Thanks doesn't cut it but it is all I have!
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) to the computer and leave it there at night, until I get a power bar - another request to all the people in my area to do another thing. For me! I sure hope I get well enough to give back! And I guess all I can do for you is to just keep saying THANK YOU!
