Today, Today, Today

Saw this news article today, and had to fight the laughter. I'm sure the thief is in pain, if he survived the shock, but then, he was a thief...
I've marked the bits I found especially amusing.

Shock horror for would-be power cable thief
Tue Feb 12, 1:01 PM ET
Police in central England are hunting for a badly scorched would-be copper power cable thief after finding a hacksaw embedded in an 11,000 volt power cable Saturday night.
The thief, who also left a lit blow torch at the scene, is expected to be badly charred, spiky haired and not exactly the brightest bulb in the socket.
"The sheer stupidity of cutting through power cables should be glaringly obvious to everyone," said Phil Wilson, customer operations manager with local power company Central Networks.
"At the very least putting the hacksaw through the cable would have created an almighty bang and the line would have burned for quite a few seconds, showering them with molten copper... We can only assume they left in a great hurry or they were injured and were dragged away by an accomplice." But searches of local hospitals have so far not found the culprit, a spokeswoman for Derbyshire Police said Tuesday.
"Maybe they had a lucky escape," she said. "We don't have any leads yet."
Nearly 800 customers in the village of Creswell were cut off when the wannabe copper thief sawed into their power supply on Saturday night, but Central Networks got the lights back on within a few hours.
Copper prices have more than doubled in the last four years as China has gobbled up huge quantities of it, sparking a wave of copper thefts across the globe from South Africa and the United States to Italy and Britain.
Thieves targeting power lines and electricity substations have already led to two fatalities in Britain and many serious injuries, while leaving thousands without power.
(Reporting by Daniel Fineren, editing by Paul Casciato)

Beyond this, my day was pretty blah. Had a breakfast meeting and then a lunch meeting, so didn't get much done today. Didn't help that what I thought was allergies is turning into a cold -- based on the headache, coughing, sore throat, and pressure in my ears. I so can not be sick right now, too much stuff to do. And DH comes home on Friday and I don't want to be sick over the weekend.

Glad to have the writer's strike over. Way too many reality shows popping up -- stupid, nasty shows.
Jericho is back on tonight. So glad the network reconsidered the cancellation. Looking forward for the return of lots of shows.

Enjoying PS I Love You. It's a good book. Don't really approve of all the changes made to the story for the movie. Of course, I still approve of Gerard Butler being in the movie :D

Gotta try to get to sleep early tonight. Took too long to fall asleep last night and then the stupid snow plow woke me up at 2:30 A.M. Ugh. So I overslept, was late out the door, and then a train crossed my path, so I was 20 minutes late this morning. Gotta do better tomorrow.

Weather today was gorgeous --clear blue sky and lots of sunshine. Still cold but at least sunny. Supposedly more snow is on the way. Such a snowy, gloomy miserable winter. Can't wait for spring (which is probably still a couple of months away).