Some More Comments

How fortunate for me that living in my condo unit works out so well. I have a number of activities that I perform during every week that keeps me occupied.

What this means is that I actually do help out as required to keep this unit well-organized. Moreover, I have a variety of activities that I do every day that do take up time to keep myself fit after the horrible health issues that I have experienced. Several days a week my wife and I go out shopping to make sure that we have all of the food that we require especially in these cold days.

Of course, there is the major task that I carry out as many times as I can. Naturally, I mean by that comment writing articles for this website, TecumsehCityBlog. This does take a considerable amount of time to carry out since I have to do research to get as much relevant information that I can before I start writing. Of course, actually writing something that has some value can be quite time-consuming as well.

No matter though. I really do enjoy what I'm doing. It forces me to keep on using my "brain" as the recovery from my horrific illness of the past. Just to show you exactly what I mean, here are some more stories that I hope you will find of interest.

MORE ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS

As you know, I have had several electrical problems at my new residence in Tecumseh in the past. To be honest, I don't think I experienced in Windsor all the difficulties I am experiencing now here in keeping my electrical power working all the time. I've had a number breakdowns here but, fortunately, they were fixed pretty quickly after I spoke to one of the senior Managers at the electrical firm, Joe Barile .

If you remember, the last time something like this happened took place not all that long ago when we lost our power for over three hours. That happened because the repair crew was out of town fixing an electrical problem in another County town and I expect that it took them close to an hour to come back here to do the repair work.

Well, here we go again! On a recent Saturday, we had two outages. We had one around 6 o'clock in the morning and then around 11:30 later on in the day. The outages themselves were very brief: about two seconds for the first one and then around one second for the second one. Fortunately, I did not have to change all of the electrical clocks in the house to correct the times. I guess the outage was not long enough to require that. 

Unfortunately, my PC, which was on at each of the times, crashed completely and had to be restarted to work again. Fortunately, it still worked properly after starting up again. Just so you know, the computer had just been returned to my home after repair work was done on it because it totally and completely crashed and key elements of it had to be replaced. This happened as an upgrade to Windows took place and while trying to go through it. The PC crashed during the downloading of the new files, never worked at all again and totally failed.

I did not contact the power company after the first outage because I was hoping that everything was all right. After the second outage, I did contact them because of what might happen again.

Fortunately, I received a comment back telling me that work was to be undertaken right away to find out what happened. Based on what took place before, I expect that once it was known what caused the problem, it would be repaired right away.

If something extraordinary happens, I certainly will let you know what took place. I'm just hoping that everything is solved quickly.

UPDATE

Yes, it seems extraordinary but it happened! I received an email on Monday morning at 9:39 AM telling me that everything was fixed up! Here is part of what was said to me in that email:

“Hydro One has now advised that it was a blown underground cable in their system (south of the Hiram Walker warehouses) which caused the first trip and their troubleshooting to do repair caused the other two. 

06:05 M25 A/R

09:09 M25 A/R

11:26 M25 A/R

Despite the annoyance, the good news is that there is a definitive event which has been determined to be the root cause of the issue this past Saturday morning.”

It makes me feel quite happy that this was done so quickly. Otherwise, I would be very uncomfortable being on my PC fearing that it could come down at any time.

Thanks again to Joe Barile, General Manager of Essex Powerlines Corporation for achieving such a good solution so quickly!

JUST A BIT MORE ABOUT THE WEATHER

It just seems too early for me. I cannot believe how cold it is at this time of the year. Moreover, we are also getting some snow although we are lucky that we don't see a lot of snow left on the ground that needs shoveling or plowing.

Believe it or not, it was only until relatively recently over only the last couple of years that I really understood what the weather was like at this time of the year. All those years before I was stuck working in an office and hardly went outside at all. Not these days! I can go outside anytime I want given my new status in life.

It is funny though. While I have the opportunity to go outside at any time, the low temperature means that I generally stay inside my condo unit to keep warm. I'm not that foolish to go out when temperatures are around 0°C or even below that. Well, I should not say that exactly. I may try to go out when it is sunny and not too windy because I did buy some nice earmuffs that should keep my delicate ears warm. Over the last couple of years, I could not find anything like this to buy so I stayed inside my unit until near spring. I will experiment with these new earmuffs and see how well I do when I go for a short stroll. I'll definitely let you know the results!

What is also somewhat peculiar is that I saw some recent weather forecasts that predicted that we would not see very many snowfalls this winter in our area, especially at this time of the year. 

Regretfully, what did I see over the last few days was a huge amount of snowfall dropping out of the sky. How lucky we were that, in fact, the temperatures were above the freezing point as the snow was coming down or else a lot of plowing would have had to be done. If you can recall, a lot of snow fell over good number of hours on each occasion. Luckily, there were no big piles of snow left that had to be shoveled away.

I still have my fingers crossed that the Weather Man is accurate in what he said would happen this year but who knows.

DRAGON DICTATE SOFTWARE

I will talk about this in more detail later on but my PC crashed completely the other day and I had to have it completely fixed up because everything was lost on my system. And I do mean everything, especially all of my software products.

Again I will explain it later on but one of the products I was able to get back was my Dragon Dictate Software system. The Dragon Dictate software system that I was using on my home Computer until recently was many years older and out of date now. I was able to get a copy of the most recent update of the software from the Customer Service Department of the owner of the Product.

I have just started using the newer version and will give a report on my opinion of it once I have used it for a proper length of time.