Man, how did people do it way back when? Freezing my butt off every night and going through internet withdrawls (at a sandwhich shop with internet access right now).
Ok, I have determined that someone has placed a curse on me. I took two weeks of vacation around Thanksgiving which turned into a hospital stay and recovery...Ended up taking that as sick time. Then scheduled the last 3 weeks of the year as vacation (haven't taken more than few days in the last couple years), and now this BS. We would just leave, but I have a little issue with clay and water at my place, so water tends to move across the clay under the house (we're on a bit of a slope) and pumped out otherwise my crawl space turns into a swimming pool, so I'm stuck babysitting a damn generator. How frustrating.
Ok, I'm done complaining...Surely others have it worse, but I just had to vent.