Here it is almost 9 a.m. on Saturday, and the grid power is still out at my house. That makes almost 48 hours with only two hours of power from the electric company. I assume they're still working on it, but who knows when they'll get it back up?

At least some of our neighbors have left their houses to go someplace else where they will have electricity. Personally, I prefer to be right here, warm, safe, and able to work on my software project. It's quite important that I be able to get it working this weekend, as we have a big client coming in next week who will want to see it in operation. If I did not have auxiliary power, my company would be embarrassed and possibly lose a big account.

It wasn't Y2K that knocked out the power, but does that matter?

-- Steve Heller (stheller@koyote.com), January 29, 2000

Answers

Yes it does matter because it's irrelevant. Maybe you are getting your just deserts for being such an asshole

-- Mr. Sane (hhh@home.com), January 29, 2000.

Mr Sane ? Did i miss something. It seems Mr Heller is in quite a comfortable condition given the circumstances. If our power goes down i will be as well. Asshole is a more fitting description yourself...Don't ya thi

-- kevin (innxxs@yahoo.com), January 29, 2000.

Mr.Sane: Why are you so hostile? Steve's point is that due to Y2K he made preparations that allows him now to be more independent and self- reliant. This has served to his advantage now, and that's great. What's your problem?

-- letsbenice (letsbenice@sensible.com), January 29, 2000.

Heller attacked me in a previous post. He is getting very aggressive with many people in here, so i'm giving him a dose of his own medicine

-- Mr. Sane (hhh@home.com), January 29, 2000.

Didja evah thin that ya maight have earned his enmity???

Ya maight hav done sumthin tah get his wind up???

Ya seem tah be doin a laht o attackin roun heah boy.

Mebbe ya uoghter go find an anger control class er sumthin.

Jes a fren

Night train

-- jes an ol harmless footballer (nighttr@in.lane), January 29, 2000.

Oh and Kevin, how very nice for you, and I bet you are hoping for the power to go out so you can feel smug and happy, while other normal people endure a normal power failure.

Have you got a back up generator incase your primary generator fails? Is your generator y2k compliant?

-- Mr. Sane (hhh@home.com), January 29, 2000.

Yo, Night Train, Don't worry about Mr. S. He had his 15 minutes of fame when David Bowie imortalized him. Seems his first name is Aladdin.

-- nah (knot@this.time), January 29, 2000.

Gee, I wonder why Mr. Sane gets attacked here?

Duh!

<:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), January 29, 2000.

It seems "Mr. Sane" is striving to be our newest "favorite troll".

Dude, spend your time doing something else, OK?

If you are actually getting enjoyment out of your attacks, it speaks volumes.

No point in being here if you don't like what people post here, is there??

-- Michael (michaelteever@buffalo.com), January 29, 2000.

Mr. "Sane":

Yes, as a matter of fact I do have a backup generator. I also have a steam engine in case both generators fail. The generators and steam engine are Y2K compliant, obviously, or they wouldn't work now. Right?

-- Steve Heller (stheller@koyote.com), January 29, 2000.

Love a cat fight.

-- Carlos (riffraff1@cybertime.net), January 29, 2000.

My Dear Mr.Heller

Sir, apparently our latest nut case is exercising his "first admendment" right and making a spectical of him/her self. I would have used the definitive of he with more certainity. But to tell you the truth, the person makes about as much sence as LL. (And is probably cuter also).

One would (myself personally) wonder just where theses unbalanced personalities have been all this time, (before the roll over).

And that's alright sane old boy. You can add my name to the skid a can wall...Been on it before, and called things , by better poets than you LOL.

Now go crawl back into your nest troll, (worm) and wait for the next person over the information bridge.

"As for me...I shall finish the Game"!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Shakey~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-- Shakey (in_a_bunker@forty.feet), January 29, 2000.

Here it is almost 11 a.m. on Saturday, and the cable is still out at my house. That makes almost 48 hours with only two hours of cable from the cable company. I assume they're still working on it, but who knows when they'll get it back up? At least some of our neighbors have left their houses to go someplace else where they will have cable. Personally, I prefer to be right here, warm, safe, and able to watch Richard Simmons on the informercials. It's quite important that I be able to watch him this weekend, as we have a big client coming in next week who will want to look my best. But I not have auxiliary cable, so I went out and bought the video. If I didn't my company would be embarrassed and possibly lose a big account.

It wasn't Y2K that knocked out the cable, but does that matter?

-- Butt Nugget (catsbutt@umailme.com), January 29, 2000.

Butt Nugget

Is it true you are Mr. Sane in drag?

-- justwondering (justwondering@trollsareunsound.com), January 29, 2000.

Buttnugget...

You may want to call the cable company and ask them to deduct your "time without cable" from your bill. I certainly would.

-- cin (cinlooo@aol.com), January 29, 2000.

Definition of an optimist;
"Someone going to Melbourne, Victoria..."
Mr Sane is already down there.

-- tomb (opprobrium@oz.oz), January 29, 2000.

Know what ya mean about Richard Simmons, lotsa guys in here don't like ta miss his 'workouts' either.

-- Porky (Porky@in.cellblockD), January 29, 2000.

So Steve, you are comfortable during a short-term power outage because of Y2K preps.....and it only cost you your professional reputation. Seems like a fair trade to me.

-- for real (for@real.com), January 29, 2000.

So Steve, you are comfortable during a short-term power outage because of Y2K preps

You get points for actually addressing the topic of the thread.

.....and it only cost you your professional reputation. Seems like a fair trade to me.

Oops, I guess you lost all those points by making a completely bogus claim. My professional reputation is in fine condition, as a matter of fact. Thanks for playing, though!

-- Steve Heller (stheller@koyote.com), January 29, 2000.

Good for you, Steve. It's more comfortable at home than at the Red Cross shelter, anyway.

-- Marie W. (pray4peace@compuserve.com), January 29, 2000.

Shakey, LOL! All the unbalanced ones were our family members, co-workers and neighbors who thought we were nuts, thought nothing dramatic could affect their peaceful, complacent lives, and made fun and smirked!

-- Unbalanced (strangers@thedoor.com), January 29, 2000.

A couple years back, there was a major ice storm in up-state New York and lower Canada. My friends up there were without power for 6 weeks. Every car was drained of gas to keep the generator running. It takes 1 gal/hour.

-- Surrounded (hiding@thefirststate.com), January 29, 2000.

Update: our grid power went back on this afternoon sometime; we were in town when it happened, so I don't have an exact time. Actually, I was looking forward to testing my other power-generating backup facilities under real-life blackout conditions, but I can always simulate that by throwing the main circuit breakers.

I'm happy that the power is back on for my neighbors, but the outage really didn't affect me at all seriously. I guess Y2K preparations have their upside after all!

-- Steve Heller (stheller@koyote.com), January 29, 2000.

The incidence of numbskulls on this forum probably represents a fair sample of the population. Tells us something about our educational system, if nothing else.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), January 29, 2000.

Mr. Sane's posts are more direct evidence that the gene pool needs a heavy dose of chlorine.

Mr. Sane = not

LadyLogic = not

the list is long...

-- snooze button (alarmclock_2000@yahoo.com), January 30, 2000.