Reset All The Clocks... AGAIN

I was just sitting here, happily reading various news websites, drinking my cup of instantly brewed "Newman's Own" Special Blend Fair Trade Certified Organic coffee made in my fabulous Keurig coffee maker, when our electricity went off AGAIN.

Although we have an uninterpretable back-up power supply for our computers and network stuff, it only works about half the time, so everything - AGAIN - shut down.

We must have one of the crummiest power suppliers in modern history. Power glitches - where the lights just flash off for a second - occur daily, often three or four times a day, and ones like the one that just happened - that knock everything back into the dark ages - occur at least weekly.

We have several power "companies" vying for our electrical dollars. They may offer cheaper rates, or discounts for contractual commitments, you name it. But none of them offer more reliable service, since they all must use the same power lines, the same transformers, the same meters, the same power sources, the same everything.

The only difference between them is the Post Office box where you send your money each month.

None of them take responsibility for these endless outages. "We just lease the lines"... blah, blah, blah.

I kept a log for three months, recording the date and time of day each failure occurred. There were over a hundred failures during that time period, but the disinterested, gum-smacking office professionals at the customer service center didn't give a damn... None of their practiced responses included how to respond to a written log full of failed service.

I envision some flea-bitten illiterate illegal somewhere in some building deciding to switch generators while they are still out of sync, or some other such idiocy, for which my electronic equipment pays the price.

There are times - and this is one of them - when I would just like to take these idiots out and drown them in their own spittle.