In case you haven’t seen it yet, this is pretty cool:
The NSF's Inouye Solar Telescope provides unprecedented close-ups of the sun’s surface, but ultimately it will measure the sun’s corona – no total solar eclipse required. 😎
More: https://t.co/UsOrXJHaY1 #SolarVision2020 pic.twitter.com/DO0vf9ZzKC
— U.S. National Science Foundation (@NSF) January 29, 2020
And here I thought you were referring to the fact that the sun was out for the first time in forever this morning.
It was out here this morning, too. Some clouds have come in this afternoon, but it's still a very nice day.
Twins sign Jhoulys Chacin. He's been up and down, but he's had some good years. Here's hoping this will be one of them.
He's been league average the last 3 seasons (101 ERA+). He had a weird year last year. He had a career high in K rate (8.8) but gave up an insane amount of HRs. Maybe Twins FO saw something in him that they can correct or they just see him as prime bounceback candidate that can fill in till Pineda and Rich Hill are ready to go.
Certainly worth a shot, I think, especially on a minor league deal.
So this morning we woke up to a cold house, and apparently half of the house (weirdly the middle) without power. The internet being down was one thing, but the power to the boiler was another. And the garage door wouldn't open.
I called an electrician.
Me: Yep, I checked all the breakers and that didn't seem to matter.
He: Sounds like you might have lost one of your hot legs.
Me: Howzat??
He: You have three legs coming into the house, two hot and one neutral. I think one of them is dead. Call the Power Company.
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Me (on the phone to Eversource): 1, 1, 1, 1, 555-247-6969, 1, 1, Yes, 1.
Eversource: Yes, we will have someone out there within the next two days, at XXX (almost correct address, but missing the North).
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Me (calling Eversource again): 1,1,1, "customer agent". Yeah, I left a ticket earlier, but they had our address wrong.
Eversource (after splaining the situ): Yeah, our IVR can't figure out how to say North. Sorry 'bout that. We'll have someone at your place in the next 2 hours.
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(meanwhile, starts fire in the fireplace, makes banana-nut muffins with the overripe banana on the chopping block - at least the oven works)
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Electro He: Hey I thot I'd call and check in.
Me: Yeah, the power just came back on a half hour ago.
He: Did the Power Co. fix it?
Me: I never saw them.
He: Hmm. Hmm. You might have a loose connection to one of your hot legs in the breaker box. Call them and see what they did, if anything.
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(Eversource guy shows up. Nope we haven't done anything. Says he thinks there's a weak connection on the light pole, climbs up there and replaces the three clamps on the cables from the house to the power pole. He shows me one of the clamps has a burnt-out side - the culprit!.
Ever. He: It's always the copper side that burns out. This happens all the time.
All things considered, that sounds like some pretty effective customer service, at least on the rebound. They even called to check on you? Not bad.
Agreed. I'll definitely go to him for future electron needs.
Re-read: Hey, both electrician AND power company coming through for you. Even better. Hope you're warmer.
Walkin on Sunshine is the saddest song ever recorded.
That's not what I heard!
Matt Groening you son of a bitch.!
That episode guts me every time.
That one and The Luck of the Fryish.
Yup.