Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!

I was overwhelmed by the prayers and good wishes and kind words on my birthday, my friends. I'd like to answer each of you who left a comment, but that's not possible. We had not planned our celebration of my birthday for yesterday since Grandpère was out of town. It's a good thing we didn't, because the power problem came up.

He missed all the fun of the power outage. I spent much of my day on the phone with the power company, doing the number punching to get to the service that could help me and then punching in my phone number and account number or shouting into phone to a technology voice with no person behind it. You all know what it's like.

In between my dealings with Entergy, I'd peek into my blog and read the lovely comments, and that lifted my spirits immensely. Thanks to the bloggers who posted about my birthday, even MadPriest, who seems to have "lost" his post rather quickly. I was fortunate to get someone to come out yesterday to set up my temporary power supply until the workers can find the bad spot in the wire, dig up the yard, and put in another splice. I had to pick up my grandchildren at school, and I just knew that the repairmen would come while I was gone, but they did not. So for now we are set.

I used my laptop a good bit yesterday, but I like my desktop much, much better. I feel so cramped using the laptop. Also, I'm browsing with Explorer, which I do not like, but I have heard of a few problems with using Firefox with Vista, so I have not downloaded it yet. So far, Vista seems fine. I haven't run into any bugs yet, although I've heard of the problems that others have.