{"id":934,"date":"2009-01-31T10:21:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T14:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2009\/01\/31\/crash-bucket-chronicles-%e2%80%94-day-five\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T12:19:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T16:19:47","slug":"crash-bucket-chronicles-%e2%80%94-day-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/934","title":{"rendered":"Crash Bucket Chronicles \u2014 Day Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is not the least of the advantages of allowing sailors occasionally a day of liberty, that it gives them a spring, and makes them feel cheerful and independent, and leads them insensibly to look on the bright side of everything for some time after.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Richard Henry Dana, Jr.<br \/>\n<em>Two Years Before the Mast<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>HITCH\u2014Can I finish my coffee first?&nbsp; COLE\u2014You surely may.<\/strong><br \/>\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Terie\u2019s power was restored last night, so all of us ate dinner at her place in Junction City and watched the Ed Harris picture, <em>Appaloosa.<\/em> (Superb western!) Terie fixed me up with a replacement mobile phone before we left. Even though KU has declared our residence restored, there was no power when we got home, but things seemed a bit more tolerable, just for having been in a warm, functional space for a few hours. Dana and I shifted our sleeping arrangements to the downstairs room in front of the gas grate. I was restless most of the night, until early morning, although probably better off than I would have been on the frigid second level.<br \/>\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Worked outside today on the \u201cendless\u201d expanse of fallen limbs\u2014slow progress without a chain saw. I talked to Bill, our business neighbor, and, although he still had no power at his Parksville residence, he discovered he had electricity in his law office across the street. Dana got through to the light company again and informed them of our status. The CPAs next door are still without power, too, and, since we\u2019re both connected to the same utility pole, all we can do is wait for someone to show up to fix it. Ruined limbs are visibly putting pressure on the line. Bill thinks that might have triggered something.<br \/>\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Dana is anxious to get out of the house, so we\u2019ve decided to use the locker rooms at Centre, find an open restaurant, and then spend the evening at Lee and David\u2019s, not knowing what we\u2019ll come back to. Bruce went to Terie and Marty\u2019s, so we\u2019re shutting off the gas and leaving for the evening\u2014with our fingers crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is not the least of the advantages of allowing sailors occasionally a day of liberty, that it gives them a spring, and makes them feel cheerful and independent, and leads them insensibly to look on the bright side of everything for some time after.\u201d \u2014Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Two Years Before the Mast &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,17,78,12,18,8,38,28,22,44,13,67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}