I stumble down to the kitchen in my usually fashion and before I even feed the critters, I fill the coffee pot with water and reach for the canister that stores the coffee. What… empty!! How can that be.
A search in the bottom cupboard comes up empty. We must have some in the pantry cupboard downstairs. I feel the beginning of “oh no.. this is not how I want to start my day” thoughts as I head down the stairs to have a look. A bit of a frantic search turns up not one coffee bean.
+sigh+
“Roland.. do you know we are out of coffee?” I proclaim, a little more loudly than is necessary, as I walk by the bedroom door.
Already feeling a little grumpy and hearing only mumblings from the bedroom, I head back to the kitchen to feed Coco and Bear who are both hot on my heels doing their little pre-breakfast dance. Once the beasts are fed, I do one more cupboard search and come up with a small jar of almost empty instant coffee.
+more sighs+
I guess this will have to do.
The furkids fed, and with instant coffee in cup, I head to the computer room to check my email. The little green light blinks on my monitor. My computer sits quiet.. no hum of the computer fan.. no blue light indicating power. What..?? It was working fine last night. I press the ‘on’ switch on the tower. Nothing!!
First, no coffee. Then, no computer. Am I being tested?
I have only been up for 30 minutes. I shutter inwardly wondering if this is an indicator for the rest of the day. Another press of the on switch does nothing. A check of the power supply does nothing. A sinking feeling is starting to take hold.
A voice from the doorway says, “What’s the matter. Let me take a look”.
A few minutes of fiddling and the blue indicator light on the computer tower flashes. One of the sockets on the surge protector must have blown. A new socket for the computer cable brings it back to life.
“Thank you, thank you!” I say as I smile at my still not fully awake husband.
Thirty minutes later I add a kiss and a hug to the thank you as Roland comes through the outside back door after an unplanned emergency trip to Tim Hortons.
No wonder he is my hero. :-)
I am so glad to hear that someone else gets that sense of panic when something goes haywire on the computer.
Here it is the car, or rather my folks car. Mom & I got in their van to go to the early service at church. It started but with a strange noise and with much difficulty. As we drove down the street the noise continued and then about a mile or so later I noticed the Air Bag System light had come on as well as the battery light. This really concerned me, so I told her we probably should go back home. I turned into a bank to turn around and the warning lights went off and the strange noise stopped but then she started smelling something….(my chronic sinuses preclude this).. so I proceeded back to the house. Here, I shut the engine off and then tried to start it…. click, click… it wouldn’t start at all. So very glad we didn’t get stranded at church!
When you count your blessings…count Roland twice!! He is one of the great ones!!
TG for Tim’s, our port in troubld seas.
A day without caffeine and a computer is a day not worth living! ;) (Okay, not quite, but you do know what I mean!)
Aren’t Daddykitties just the bestest! Ours is our (and Mommakitty’s) hero for the same reasons!
WTG Roland!
I had the same computer panic over the weekend. I have a new hard drive now. TG for techno Hubby’s! He fixes everything and he makes my coffee.
Men making the coffee is in the bible. It is? Where? Hebrews…tee hee
Have a wonderful day!
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You’ve got a good man! Now your day will be just right!
Instant coffee? Shudder. Wouldn’t have it in my house. No coffee and no computer? AAARRRGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! I’d be found curled into the fetal position and whimpering.
Hooray for Roland!
I wouldn’t want to do without my computer…but I especially wouldn’t want to do without my morning coffee! Love the stuff!
What would we do, WITHOUT, the HEROS in our lives?
I am so glad your computer problem was just a glitch that Roland could fix and not a “dead computer” like I a had a few months back.
Give Roland a few extra hugs and kisses. He sounds like a mighty fine guy.
That is a hard way to start the day. Roland is a sweetie.
No coffee is an emergency! To keep this from ever happening again, make an emergency stash. Put a ziplock of coffee in your freezer or the bottom of your lingerie drawer. Anytime you must resort to the emergency stash, you’ll have time to go shopping.
What a heart-pounder. It’s good it was a simple as that to fix. Thank goodness for sweethearts. :)