As far as anyone can tell, Ameritech is responsible, but no one knows what happened. It's pretty strange.
My personal theory is that Ameritech finally turned on the phones at the Store, and it blew the entire system out of the water.
The funniest part of that is how people around here react. The folks in our company are like lost sheep without all their little gadgets and gizmos. They were all milling around in the halls, wondering if a bomb had been dropped on Lansing or something.
I got tired of it and decided to do some work. Then I discovered that I, too was affected. I couldn't call the guy I needed to. I started to work on my presentation for next week, and realized that I had stored the graphics I wanted to use on an FTP site, and couldn't get to them.
So I'm truly a net-addicted worker. It's not just an entertainment thing, for me. Communications are a huge part of my daily life.
Last night we went to dinner, and had a nice time. By some miracle Forest was awake. He had gotten about 3 hours of sleep the night before. Then, after dinner, he started to get very sleepy, and I encouraged him to take a nap in the car. He got in, buckled up, and was snoring before I had my door closed. He slept for 20 minutes until it was time to meet Kim, who was going with us to Jekyll and Hyde. I couldn't wake him up at Kim's house, so I went in myself and got her, and we chatted a while.
When we got back out to the car, Forest jolted awake for a second, seemed to somehow take into account where he was and what was going on. I think he said a couple of coherent words, but was unconscious again before we had driven a city block. He stayed that way all the way to East Lansing.
Then it occurred to me that I would have to wake him up when we got there. It's never an easy task, especially when he's really tired. I can shake him by the shoulders and yell his name, and he snores on. I found a parking place, and began the process as usual, gently.
5 minutes later I honked the car horn, and opened the doors, letting in the cold air and rain. Then I shouted, patted his hand, and started to laugh a bit, because Kim was entertained by all this greatly. That did the trick, and he joined us in the land of the living.
The show was okay. It wasn't great (Beauty and the Beast, Les Miserables, Rent. It wasn't thrilling (Phantom, Starlight ). It just didn't have the score for that sort of thing, or the direction. The story was good, and the main character was interesting, however the auxiliary characters were mostly one-dimensional. The music drove me nuts, because someone decided that the whole show should be one uniform level. Everything was played and sung loudly. At climactic points they only got louder, sometimes sacrificing pitch and tone quality to belt it out even more. The music lacked sensitivity, and after a while, all the songs sounded the same. I understand the idea of having a melodic theme in a musical. This was beyond that. This was almost literally the same song for 3 hours straight. It got pretty monotonous.
The actor who played Jekyll and Hyde was good. The set bothered me, though, because it featured a large mirror which served absolutely no practical or symbolic purpose. It was just distracting. In the end I was glad we went, because it was fun and all, but it definitely wasn't among the greatest musicals I've seen.
Forest managed to stay awake through the whole thing, and sweetly gave me kisses during it, too, which made me happy. We ran into Michele, who is going to bring Bridget over to visit me on Saturday night while Forest is out with his dad and brother. Bridget hasn't seen our house before, and I welcome the opportunity to get to know her better. Hopefully it will make me feel a lot better about things. It's hard to explain... I trust Forest implicitly, and know he's not going to do anything to hurt me. However, I still have a bad gut reaction to this, that I would like to get rid of. Maybe if I find out that she isn't the absolute perfect being in the world, I'll feel better.
Part of the play last night dealt with the fact that the Dr. Hyde part of the man lusted after a dark beauty named Lucy, who represented youthful instability, the freedom of night life, and so on. It was an affair, of sorts. The Dr. Jekyll part of the man was engaged to be married to Emma, who was always dressed in light colors, was settled in society, and in control of her life. She represented stability, conforming to established parameters, a pure sort of love and affection.
For a short time last night while I was dreaming, I had cast myself as Emma, and Bridget as Lucy. Just before I got to casting Forest as Jekyll and Hyde, I jerked myself awake, and denied myself that sort of mental game. It's stupid, and I won't do it.
Forest took his turn going to the Wednesday night gaming session last night. When he got home I was very truly zonked, but I vaguely remember him enthusiastically telling me what a good time he had had. He seemed to have particularly had fun with Andy, but I don't know what the two of them were up to. I'll have to inquire at lunch, I guess. It was pretty wierd to send him along without me, but I was actually glad I did. I ended up in bed around 11:30, and was so tired that I was asleep right away. I'm still fighting off this fever-bug that is going around.
Tonight is a more peaceful evening. I get to go home straight from work, and am looking forward to straightening up a little bit there. Forest has Judo, and then will drive Tiffiny (who is calling herself Tiffsi these days) to her place, then come home. We're planning to have time to read from the Book of Three tonight, which is always fun.
I'm starving, so it's off to lunch with me. I just got done moving all my old entries to Angelfire. Hopefully it isn't too annoying to look at the advertisements.
