Stormy Weather--not the song and misc. ramblings

Well, more storms coming in again today. Let's hope no more power outages--yesterday's storm hit the nearby Spier Falls dam on the Hudson River in Moreau, NY, and took out 13 major powerlines, causing a massive and potentially harmful low voltage situation, so Natl. Grid shut down the system to Warren, Washington and Saratoga counties--hence my office's shut down for the night. Wasn't good coming home to no fan, tho'--I didn't mention it yesterday, but I nearly passed out from the heat, when I got home last night--I mean I literally had to run into the shower and douse myself, clothes and all, then go sit near the window for some air for a few minutes--recovered in minutes, thankfully. Was a bit of a scare tho', when my vision began to blacken. That's not a good sign..but, I'm fine, really. I just got overheated from standing about a hot car park for a half hour, and walking home.

It was brutally--I mean totally horrendously hot, yesterday---the steam heat was exactly like a very hot sauna. The ambulance crews were very busy. And idiot girl here--who knows better--had been drinking lots of coffee, instead of my usual water, while I was working.
Having spent much of my younger days (aka age 30 and under) working and playing outdoors in all extremes of the weather, I know all about the hot/cold weather dangers and what to do/not to do. So, there's no excuse for what happened last night, but my own stupidity.

I just Googled WTEN's news page, and clicked on the weather radar image. Looks like some of the storms to our west, skirting the Great Sacandaga Lake/reservoir, are moving a bit into the city, but mostly seem to be sticking to western Warren and northern Saratoga and eastern Fulton counties. My former towns of Lake Luzerne/Corinth are getting hammered tho', I think.

The bill collectors are making me crazy! Got a call from some snotty yuppie from the Vermont student lenders--she was civil, but was rather brusqe and wasn't really listening to anything I was saying. Then, my other bill collectors called--the one's from stinking India (not bigoted, I just resent these people taking our jobs, but I don't really hate them--just the companies they work for, tho' I do strongly dislike getting a guy or gal I can't understand, who can't speak clear English---bad enough getting bugged about bills, but getting bugged about bills by someone who's accent is so thick, you can't hardly fathom what he or she is saying...dang, I hate that.)

Thanks to those of you who left messages about Time Lords Don't Cry. I really don't feel this is a good story, and don't like writing rubbish, if I can help it, but since to my surprise, some people seem to be reading it, I'll continue to slog through it.

Well, off to make lunch and do the washing up. Nice breeze coming in through the window, all of the sudden, really good to feel it.