'Oldest Living Blogger' asks: "Was your power off this morning?"
By Ray on August 27, 2008 - 8:28am
"So," you ask, "What were you doing when the lights went out?" I'm glad you asked me that, because I'd like to tell you. May I?
I was in the midst of filling out a 'feedback' form on a CTV website, when the old computer blacked out, and then flickered a few times, and then showed me a page of black screen with white printing, telling me what to do to get it recovered and functioning again...and it seemed to already know about the power outage, because it mentioned that specifically. I thought that was very interesting... - Why? - Because....
Because I spent 20 years of my life in some of the gawd-awful'st places in not-always Beautiful British Columbia at B.C. Hydro generating stations and distribution stations doing my bit to keep your lights on - before Hydro's brass decided they could do it cheaper with people who didn't know how, or didn't understand why, or wouldn't go where it all got done.
So me and about a thousand of my fellow old-timers got pushed out the door (literally!) and were sawn off the various branches of the corporate tree, some of us with premature pensions that wouldn't keep anybody alive & well without a lot of help from their friends or another job to work on. My own Hydro pension, ten years before I became 65, the usual pension age, was less per month than I had previously earned on the job in a week - make that four days.
