ES - Humble Apologies

[Betsy Marshall]

I appreciate the info, but you hardly need to
apologize for something entirely outside your
responsibility!
Pyro (who's had a car or two go splat..)

Armand Dragonetti wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Today at 8:45 am, a truck hit a pole outside of my warehouse. The accident
> snapped the pole and all the businesses on my street lost both power and
> telephone service. A new pole was put up and services were restored around 2
> pm. During the outage, access to the Elfsea.Org site was impossible and any
> mail intended for myself or Ameline did not make it. I wish to extend my
> apologies to any of you who may have been inconvienianced by the lack of
> access to the baronial site and to the Elfsea List Admininstrator for any
> trouble due to bounced messages. Things should be in order now. The January
> calendar will be put online as soon as possible once I receive the info.
> (However, I will be unable to make any updates between 4 pm on 12/31/1999
> thru 10 pm on 01/01/2000.)
> 
> I hope everyone has a safe and fun New Year's celebration. With all the Y2K
> hype, that was one of the first things that came to mind when our services
> were cut this morning. (It's starting early, or they're doing a fire drill.)
> I don't think anything like that will happen, but it did remind me how much
> we depend on those two services. (A longer delay could have made a mess of
> the refridgerator :-) The utility companies did respond amazingly fast,
> especially considering that a new hole for a new pole had to be drilled,
> which required an actual person from not only TU Electric & Southwestern
> Bell, but also Lone Star Gas and the Water department to locate potential
> underground dangers before drilling. The scene was a bit surreal with
> firetrucks, police, phone trucks, utility company trucks and the street
> blocked off. (Or maybe it was because I worked all last night and laid down
> on the couch at 7am to be woke up at 8:45am and I was not quite all there
> yet. :-)
> 
> Thinking of Y2K problems, which I believe will be few if any, I couldn't
> help but recall a quote from a recent US News & World Report 'Quotables'
> column. Regarding the purchase of a gun, a lady said, "I'd rather have it
> and not need it than need it and not have it." I think that might at least
> be applicable to things like flashlights, batteries, ice chests, candles,
> etc. (I sell flashlights & batteries, so of course I 'd think that :-)
> Hmmmm....it sure would be better to have a spare ballcock or P-Trap and not
> need it, than to need it and not have it...don't ya think? :-)
> 
> Happy New Year,
> -=Armand=-
> 
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