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[redbird]

They're taking our power away again tomorrow, at 9 a.m.

Last time the 3:00 ending time turned into 4. Email will be held at panix; telephone is better, and cell phone better than landline (because the mobile has voice mail, and the answering machine for the regular phone is on the same power), if it's urgent. We're likely to be out and about, rather than sitting home reading by daylight, which is another argument for the mobile.

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[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Who are they, and why do they keep taking away your power?

B

[redbird]

They are probably Con Ed, although the Con Ed man I reached this morning told me that he couldn't get through to the people who had the information about what was being done and why. He was in Brooklyn (on an 800 number), they were in Manhattan, everything was busy. That's right, even Con Ed can't get Con Ed to answer the phone. Some kind of large-scale electrical work is the best guess, but all details remain vague. In theory, they're done now--the memo said it would be last Friday and today.

The memo was the usual vague, abstract bureaucratese we're used to from the management company, never saying what's being done, or apologizing for the inconvenience. Or, for that matter, bothering to make enough copies to slide under people's doors, or even post one on each floor: there was one copy by each entrance, and one on the lobby bulletin board. Adequate, I suppose, if you realize that this bland white sheet is a memo you need to read, not another person who wants to sell a rocking chair or ask FedEx to deliver to a different apartment. And if you see it at all: I can easily imagine someone, living alone and home sick for a couple of days, whose lights went out Friday morning, with no explanation.