Yesterday afternoon, Eishkom announced that Stage 1 would continue until 05:00 this morning. If it wasn't for the app EskomSePush, there's no way to keep up with the schedule! Remember months ago, when I laboriously compared Eskom's Stages against our schedule per stage, then summarised it chronologically? And every time Eskom changed their schedule, I had to start again from scratch? Then type that out to send via WhatsApp to our neighbourhood?
EskomSePush has improved to the point where they announce changes to Eskom's schedule almost instantly - they are faster than Eskom's twitter, any news or even the Eskom FaceBook page. I can take a screenshot of the Eskom announcement, if I want to send that - and now, our Group's schedule, can be shared with a simple share button!
WhatsApp has also improves, so I can now share to multiple parties at the same time - whereas in the past, I had to send to each one individually.
Apps adapting to the 'new normal' of continuous load shedding ...
And nowhere can I find any reference to the State of Disaster declared over the Electricity Crisis. It seems to be forgotten ...
I picked the meat off the chicken last night, after all. Mippies were very happy to see me 'play' with food they could share! They got a healthy portion, ha ha! I'm thinking of cooking more spaghetti tonight, chop some celery, mix it with the chicken and some mayo ... that'll stretch it.
I just paid my rent, my credit card and bought more electricity ... I'll need to do next month's budget. First, though, I'll need to update this month's - which is a bit tricky, separating the stock-piling from the monthly purchases.
Load shedding tonight from four to six and again from midnight till two. No PC audiobook tonight ... back to my phone tonight. I have only 5 audiobooks loaded on my phone ... well, it'll do.
Well, might as well publish now ...
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