I’m happy to wave, “Bye-Bye” to August. I’m hoping that September will bring a calming down of the weather, a deep breath of the coming fall, a more relaxing time for us all.
For the past two days, I’ve spent half the day editing items on my Etsy site, HandmadeHavenbyLinda. I received an email from them saying that my stuff would be ‘seen’ and show up in more search engines if I included more pics of each of my items. I don’t have money to throw around, but these changes don’t cost anything but my time, so I’m plowing through, trying to do the editing on one page each day. Laborious, but will hopefully be good for the long run.
I didn’t make it up to my art room yesterday, but I plan to today. I’ve had active dreams lately. The night before last, it was my long-lived standard nightmare of being lost and late, moving faster and faster as the dream progresses, getting more and more frightened. Last night, happily, my nightmare was replaced by me watching myself working on the new wood-burned pieces. MUCH better. :0)
At dinnertime last night our power suddenly went out. After several seconds, the generator came on. Then it went off and it looked like we would get power back, then off again. This happened several times over the space of about half an hour before the public power was restored and stable. I have no clue why we lost power. The sun was shining. I really don’t like it when our generator has to work so hard turning on and off again over and over, but am grateful for our setup.
The power outage was a good lesson for me in another way. My husband said his computer hadn’t been affected. I assumed it was the same for mine, but found out my computer was off, even though I have a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) into which my computer is plugged. It either didn’t work or the power was off longer than the UPS will run. I asked my husband, the former computer analyst and fixer of all things electronic. He simply looked at me and threw up his hands – our new normal.
I rebooted my computer and got a screen I’ve never seen before. It scared me. I finally figured out to hit F1 for setup and then carefully made choices I hoped would get things back to the way they were before we lost power. I did it, with my heart in my throat, newly aware that “I” am now the fix-it person here. :0(
We are due for a somewhat rainy day today and more tomorrow. Hopefully, our power will stay on, or the generator came come on and stay on until the power is back.
I hope that your Labor Day weekend is a fun one.
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