Category: Pets

Thank goodness Jesse doesn’t have a phone… or an opposable thumb.

I’ve had a touch of a cold, developing for the pasts few days or so. Nothing serious but it’s tiresome. I’ve been feeling drained but trying to keep regular hours.

Last night Jesse & I went to bed as usual, but I was feeling much more tired than usual.

Perhaps my tiredness has something to do with Southern California Edison choosing the end of November to do routine maintenance which required the power to be of from 9 am to 4 pm.

Uh, dumb asses it’s Winter. The daily high temps was 44°F yesterday. Heat is an issue as is the fact that this time of year the sun drops behind the mountain between 3 and 4 pm. So we’re in a deep twilight and the temperature starts falling rapidly, well before official sundown. But it didn’t matter, because Southern  California Edison didn’t get the power back on until 5:30 pm or so. But that time my house temp had dropped below 48° F.

After getting a $400 to $500 bill for natural gas last year I’ve been keeping the house in the low 60s hoping to avoid an obscene natural gas bill again, because of Biden non-economics and shitty planning on the part of the natural gas company.

Sitting on the couch shivering in 3 blankets due to the slight fever and the cold. I thought about calling Southern California Edison and asking them if this was part of some evil plan,

Last year the blizzard coupled with complete lack of planning, caused us to be ignored, essentially out of food, fuel, and snowed in, for several weeks. Older people died. The cost of natural gas was so excessive that lots of people, myself included let their homes be very cold. Older People also died due to that. Now as we enter winter Edison decides to fiddle around with “Upgrades” that should probably have been done before it got cold.

Shivering on my couch. I really wondered if this was all an elaborate plan to force the white people out of our homes up here so that Biden’s newest crop of illegals or BLM’s richer activists could be given the white people’s homes up in the mountains.  Perhaps it was the fever, but damn I feel like it’s death by a thousand cuts lately.

In fact Edison, if they had a brain between them, would do better doing upgrades in the mountains in late summer when it’s blazing hot down in the valleys. Their crews would be more comfortable and they could do other upgrade work in the valleys as fall rolled off the valleys. Their crews would be more comfortable and possibly safer.

The thing is, the workers don’t appear to be actual Edison employees. They’re contractors. So calling Edison and raising hell doesn’t matter in the least. The contractor handles the scheduling of their employees. This gives Edison the ability to wash their hands of any situations that may arise.

I didn’t make the call. I had enough presence of mind to realize I was cold, hungry, angry, and not feeling well.

Anyhow, Jesse and I went to bed about 10pm. I’d decided “fuck it” and set the temp to 68°F when the power came back on. It sets back to 64° F at 11:00, so I wasn’t going to be running up the bill too much.

I was asleep instantly. Something woke me about 11:30, then Jesse woke me around 12:30 and wanted out. He seemed like he was trying to toss his cookies. I knew he’d be a while, so I sat on the couch, then wrapped up in a blanket…

My alarm sounding in the bedroom at 6am woke me. Poor Jesse was sitting “pretty” looking at me through the sliding door. The temp was 34°F and had probably been colder. He’d been outside all night because I fell into a deep sleep.

I feel like a total shit! Because I left the poor guy outside all night and this cold is draining me.

Jesse and I are on the bed now. He’s sleeping under a blanket that I might designate as “his” in the near future. He seems to like this blanket more than any other in the house. If I’m using it, he’s typically got his paws and chin resting on it. Other blankets, he’s not interested in.

I’ve apparently been dozing off because I keep finding my computer is asleep though from my perspective I’m mid thought.

I might not get a lot done today.

I have to give Jesse his heart worm preventative today. That’s going to wait a while, he’s sound asleep and I’m going to let sleeping dogs lie.

The way I feel right now,  I might not get out of bed until noon or later. Jesse seems content with that idea.