would like somebody to get their act together
My brand new house keeps getting better. TV, cable connection, wireless internet, lamps. Apparently our internet comes from satellite which makes it annoyingly intermittent, the signal strength , and thus the bandwidth, are always fluctuating due to weather and sunspot activity.
The electrical power here in Kabul is very unpredictable and goes out a lot. Worse than Leyte, where the power once failed during my wedding. Here it can go out at any time, and does. Like two or three times a day. I used to complain about how Manila blacks out two or three times a month. Really pissed me off back in Manila, too, because electric power is extremely expensive in Phils, and so, you know, you’d think they might provide good service in the very least. I really hate Meralco, actually. Hate those guys to bits. And they’ll disconnect your power if you’re more than 1 day late in payment, which is actually somewhat hard to keep up with for me personally, I’m not good with really tight deadlines, I get all stressed about when the Meralco bill is coming, and oh my God are we even getting close to the due date. So I hate Meralco. But I’ll tell you something, Meralco keeps the power flowing most of the time. Gotta give ‘em that much. Now whoever knuckleheads are running the power company here in Kabul… well, there are some serious issues going on, I can’t even begin to speculate what, but those boys can’t keep the power flowing for more than about 8 hours at a time. Right now it’s 10PM in Kabul, as I write this, and I’m wrting on MS Word because power has gone out, and it’s too spooky to get out of bed and go make some dinner. It’s so dark and silent. It’s like a dracula movie. Also I’m afraid of scorpions, we’re in scorpion country. I would really hope that those guys over at the electric plant would get their frakkin act together, this is inconvenient and annoying and a little spooky. I’m using my laptop as a flashlight.
I don’t know if the problem with electricity is war-related, or maybe the problem is delivery of petroleum, or maybe the machinery is old and continually breaks down, or maybe worker incompetence, I don’t know. I don’t care enough to ask why. I just would think with all the money floating around this town, somebody might be able to keep the frakkin electricity flowing. There is a lot of frakkin money flowing into this town, not all of it military either. Like maybe the US Army engineers for example might take a hand at things since they’re here already anyway. Nato and the UN are actively operating in a military manner (I see their light military verhicles everywhere, even convoys of Nato troops). And I believe either Nato or the UN could probably give it a go, see about keeping the power flowing. But whoever, I don’t even care. I just wish somebody would get the situation under control. It’s a bit ridiculous.
Things are good with work, I like my job surprisingly, I had not much enjoyed working in the Gulf. The kids are good though, and I like them, which always helps.
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