2011 August 30 » Hubman's Hangout

I almost went there, but I refrained!

As I’ve mentioned before here and on Twitter, we’ve been without cable or broadband internet at home since around noon on Sunday. Comcast keeps telling us that they’re working on it, we keep waiting. Due to the power still being out at my office, I’ve had Monday and Tuesday off, which actually works out pretty good, since school starts for DB on Wednesday and we had no one to watch him.

Monday I kept suggesting activities, we could go for a bike ride, he could play with his friend next door, he has plenty of toys, there’s the Wii, he could read, and so on.

His response? Grumbling about the cable *still* being out.

One of these days, he WILL be getting the “when I was your age” lecture from me!

On the bright side, at least this won’t be happening anytime soon. I hope…

In the grand scheme of things, and compared to what some others have experience or are still experiencing, we survived Hurricane Irene with minimal damage. We had no water issues in the house and never lost power. We’re still without cable and broadband internet (I’m at Veronica’s office using her wi-fi to write this), but that’s nothing to complain about. We do have internet access, just via our iPhones and my iPad, so we’re not completely cut off.

[As always, click on any photo to view at full resolution in a new window]

Back on Day 107 I showed a photo of DB helping me repair a section of fence in the yard. Looks like we’ve got more repairs to make. You can barely see the new post we installed on the left edge of this photo (bad composition Hubman, bad composition!)

105mm macro lens, 1/80 sec at f/2.8, ISO 800

Another damaged section, the post is soooo lose in the ground, I’ll probably end up having to replace it with a properly-set new one.

105mm macro lens, 1/60 sec at f/2.8, ISO 800

If it wasn’t for the trees holding it up this section would probably be lying on the ground!

105mm macro lens, 1/30 sec at f/2.8, ISO 800

This is probably the worst damage, a tree limb about 5″ in diameter and about 20′ long snapped. Unfortunately it’s still hanging there, about 30′ off the ground. I would rather it had fallen, it would have just landed in my yard, there’s really nothing it could have damaged except for the already-listing fence below it.