Readers of this space will certainly understand that we have issues with our power plant. We have had somewhere around ten or eleven days without electricity since January 1st. They have come in various forms of inconvenience, ranging from the pain-in-the-ass variety to the shivering in the dark, no-water-pressure variety. We seem to have gotten it down to pain in the ass at this point. Our refrigeration is plugged into an outlet in the hallway that is apparently on the same circuit as the furnace room. We never unplugged it after the last go-around. We have little faith in the power system here at this point.
Word went out last week that the village had gotten its hands on replacement parts that would allow it to get our largest generator, which had been down for a while, back up and running. That process would take two days, during which we would have to go back to individual generators.
To make it short and relatively less painful, the power went off at about 11 am today. It has stayed off, and we are told that, for a combination of reasons which I do not understand, it will be off for a week. Fantastic. We are fortunate that our alternate generators have been hooked up at the teacher houses, because it is going to get cold again this weekend.
Testing went reasonably smoothly, and that part of the school year is over. We are now looking forward to preparing for next years' classes. I am in the process of ordering the books that we will need to get things off the ground come August. Six more weeks, and we are out for summer. The years keep going faster...
Have you signed on for another year?
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