It’s the middle of November and I’m freezing my fricken ass off. It’s not even like I’m in a state where this type of weather is expected (ie: Maine / Minnesota), I’m in Delaware!! It’s supposed to be boardwalk friendly weather until December 21st!
The “Noreaster” rolled through yesterday, it was pretty much a windy day with a drizzle. New York got hit pretty hard, I know my mom had about 8-inches or so of Snow, which for November is completely uncommon. And while the power did stay on in numerous areas, there are people from the last storm who don’t even have power yet. To make matters worse, those who just got there power back within the last 48 hours or so, are already out. I wonder if LIPA has been holding all of their machinery together with duct tape and gum? How the hell do you fix a transformer to only have it stop working two days later? No wonder Gvnr. Cuomo is as pissed off as he is – you people suck.
There are crews in from all over the United States and Canada to aid in relief efforts, but then you see arial views of all of the LIPA trucks just sitting around doing nothing while all of the out-of-staters are pretty much handling everything. The North Shore of Long Island has been taken over by Kentucky and Tennessee power companies and there isn’t a single LIPA truck to be found. It blows my damn mind. These states are coming in to be kind enough to help you out and you’re just going to sit back and do jack shit in it’s place? I’m sure there’s some kind of a union bullshit thing involved here. From what I’ve heard LIPA is still pissed about a remaining bill of like $75,000 from Irene so they’re taking their sweet time. Meanwhile, just based on billing periods, they can make that in two hours since there a damn monopoly anyway. No one wants Con Edison to be involved with Long Island, the rates are absurd and the quality of service is just as bad, if not worse.
I think they should just take the innovative approach and put all of the damn power lines under ground to help keep things moving. It would not only put A LOT of people to work, but you wouldn’t be dealing with the bull shit of “Oh no, it’s a windy day – I think I’ll be dealing with ANOTHER blackout”. That’s the one thing we’ve never had to worry about down here. Even with all of the damage that’s been done by storms in the past there’s never been a major blackout due to a storm.
But, going back to my main point. I’M FUCKING COLD!! I have no idea where any of my jackets are, mainly cause I’m too lazy to look for them. I’m amused at how the dog is sitting next to me panting away like it’s the middle of the summer and I’ve got a chill going up and down my spine that just won’t go away. All I want to do is lay down in bed and go to sleep but I know I need to put in at least 8 hours tonight (starting now) to complete a site for a client. There’s still about 8 pages to convert from HTML to WordPress, and of course there’s the issue of needing custom fields all over every single template file so needless to say that puts a damper on things.
I also need to figure out a conditional tag, I don’t think is_blog() would actually work the way I need it to. The site has two backgrounds, the initial one for the home page, and a more compressed one for the content pages. Now using is_front_page() and is_home() are working to display the correct background on the index page, and the content pages, but when you think it’s going to carry over to the blog you’re sadly mistaken and all it does is display the background located on the index page. I’m going to have to spend quite a bit of time figuring that one out tonight. Not to mention I’m also going to be dealing with the issue of the fact that the site was so poorly coded it’s not even looking the way its supposed to in any browser lower than IE9. Whoever the client paid (originally) to code this thing was a total waste in money, and now it’s a rush job to get it done by tomorrow morning (Friday AM). We told them 24 hours initially because we thought it was just going to be loading the template into WordPress and creating a few custom fields here and there. I didn’t realize it was going to require a complete and total recode because the moron who coded it for WordPress took the Twenty-Ten (not even Twenty-Twelve) and copied and pasted the WRONG areas into the WRONG template files. STUNAD!!