I realize that we’re a couple of weeks into January, but I finally can tell you about my New Year’s Eve experience.<\/p>\n
Our family had a really nice treat over the holidays, in that my wife’s older brother, his wife and 8-year-old daughter came from the Mainland to spend New Year’s with us. That was a great way for us to ring in the new year.<\/p>\n
They were going to spend New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day at our house, since their resort hotel room wouldn’t be available for a few days. We love that — having them stay over, that is, for nothing can beat having family for the holidays. Of course, being in the newspaper business, I couldn’t take off and was at work on New Year’s Eve.<\/p>\n
That’s when I received a call from our 17-year-old daughter. Somewhat panicked, she said, “Dad, the cable TV isn’t working and the Internet is down!” Since I’m the IT department at our home, I was trying to troubleshoot the problem long distance. Of course, I instructed them to call the cable company tech support.<\/p>\n
After a while, she called me back saying that there was nothing wrong with the cable but that we might be having power issues at our house. When I walked in the door, I was greeted with a unanimous shout: “Finally!” I guess having no TV or Internet on one of the biggest media nights of the year was pretty frustrating.<\/p>\n
I went right to work, rebooting and resetting equipment, and finally went to our circuit box to find that one of the breakers was tripped. There was no professional I could call on New Year’s Eve, so I called an electrician friend of mine, but it sounded like he had already been celebrating the new year. From what I could make out, I would have to find what caused the circuit to short out.<\/p>\n
After extensive interrogation, I discovered that both my wife and her sister-in-law washed their hair that day and simultaneously blow-dried their hair. As far as I know, they both own dryers that could jump-start a nuclear power plant. So I unplugged a power strip that was used and was able to restore the circuit. We then celebrated New Year’s in grand style.<\/p>\n
Before we all turned in for the night, I asked my wife and sister-in-law if they were going to wash their hair when they got up. They both asked me why I wanted to know. I replied, “The Rose Bowl is on and I need to know now if I should go out and buy a generator.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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