Relieved

They are announcing alot of rain here for the coming days so I decided to go out and take some photos while the trees still had leaves on them.

I come home and as usual, first thing i do is download the photos to my computer. Well.. my monitor has a huge bar on it saying : no power source attached to the monitor or something like that. I press the on button, nothing happens.. nada.. nothing. Darn.. I'm a bit peeved. I just changed the power supply in spring. Seems it has died again.

So, I call up Sylvain and let him know that I'm going to have to change my power supply... and he tells me that while I was out.. the whole town had experienced a loss of electricity at least 6 times.

I'm thinking there was some kind of power surge and it damaged my power supply... things like this happen. I once had a digital phone with an answering machine integrated. While out there was a loss of electricity for about a minute.. when I got back home the phone was ringing, so I answered it .. nobody there.. so I hung up .. it rang again.. answered .. nobody there.. well.. the electronics were now screwed up and you couldn't hang up the phone without it ringing.

anyways.. back to my computer.

I am just about to call Glen and ask him how much a power supply will cost me and I'm thinking it won't be too much since I will install it myself.. so no labor costs involved and I look under my desk.. and of course the light for the power surge protector is on.. and it clicks.. not literally.. but in my brain.. I understand all. I shut off the surge protector and turn it back on.. reboot.. and voilà!.. everything is fine and humming along.

They do say you appreciate things better when you think you will lose them.. point well taken.