Last night Blogger dumped an entry after I posted it (no matter, this one replaces it.) But that was just another in a series of weird technical difficulties we had on coming home.<\/p>\n
The taxi pulled into the drive by the house yesterday (Sunday), and Peter jumped out to have a look at the fishpond…and saw that the fountain wasn’t running. We both said “Uh, oh…” in unison, since this was the first symptom of the week-long power failure our house had last year when we were in the US.<\/p>\n
Heading into the house, we found that there had indeed been some massive power surge that had flipped the circuit breaker on the main house “board”, about four o’clock on Friday. We flipped the circuit-breaker, and things came back on…mostly. The food in the freezer was OK: only a little ice in the topmost shelf had melted…that thing has good insulation. But the freezer’s sensor chip seems to have been fried, in that it doesn’t know what temperature it is inside any more, and every now and then triggers its “power loss” alarm, screaming in ill-founded frustration. Additionally, when Peter went upstairs to reset the clocks and so forth, he discovered that his computer’s power source had also been fried. (At least I’m pretty sure that’s what it is. Push the button, no power. The cord’s not at fault, and neither is the plug [note to non-UK and Irish users: plugs here have fuses in them]. Seems to me that if the power source was OK and the motherboard was fried, we would at least get the power source’s fan coming on, but nothing further, or a screwy POST, or whatever.) What joy.<\/p>\n